{"id":478483,"date":"2025-08-14T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/metop-sg-a1-takes-off-the-most-accurate-meteorological-satellite\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T10:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:07:10","slug":"metop-sg-a1-takes-off-the-most-accurate-meteorological-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/technology\/metop-sg-a1-takes-off-the-most-accurate-meteorological-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"MetOp-SG-A1 takes off, the most accurate meteorological satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"The <strong>first second-generation European meteorological satellite<\/strong>, <strong>MetOp-SG-A1<\/strong>, the most accurate to date, was launched at 00:37 GMT aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, carrying the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.copernicus.eu\/es\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.copernicus.eu\/es\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Copernicus<\/a> Sentinel-5<\/strong> mission.\n\nThe mission is the result of the long-standing cooperation between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat).\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MetOp-SG-A1 is set to become the most advanced satellite in predicting the increasingly frequent extreme weather events and in measuring air quality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/un-anciano-mata-a-hachazos\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/un-anciano-mata-a-hachazos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Horror in Spain: an elderly man hacks to death a social worker who was assisting his wife<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nFollowing its launch and commissioning, the mission will be fully operational within a year and will provide observations and measurements 24 hours a day from polar orbit, at an altitude of 832 kilometers.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-seis-instrumentos-complementarios\"><strong>Six Complementary Instruments<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nThe mission <strong>carries six complementary instruments<\/strong>: a state-of-the-art infrared atmospheric sounder, a microwave sounder, a multispectral imaging radiometer, a novel multi-view, multi-channel, and multi-polarization imaging generator, a radio occultation sounder, and the Copernicus Sentinel-5 spectrometer from the European Commission.\n\nThese are missions prepared to work in tandem to obtain better results, which will be operational for a minimum of 21 years, until the end of the 40s.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first second-generation European meteorological satellite, MetOp-SG-A1, the most accurate to date, was launched at 00:37 GMT aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, carrying the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission. 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