METOP C

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Earth ObservationLEOCOSPAR 2018-087ALaunched 11/7/2018

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Mission & Launch

Launch Mission: MetOp-C
Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-ST-B Fregat
Launch Date: 11/7/2018

Orbit & Mass

Orbit Class: LEO
Altitude: 806.5 km
Inclination: 98.74 deg
Dry Mass: 3,769 kg
Total Mass: 4,086 kg

Payload Classification

Mission Type

Earth Observation

Payload Category

MET

Payload Class

C

Organizations

Operator: European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
Manufacturer: Airbus

Registry

COSPAR ID: 2018-087A
UN Registration: ST/SG/SER.E/870

Track

Mentions

7

All verified mentions of this spacecraft in source documents.

AMSU-A on MetOp-C and ATMS on NOAA 20 and NOAA 21 detected the development of Jolina’s warm core.

GeneralCapabilityValue 3.4Apr 1, 2026Medicane: CNR definisce criteri standard di classificazione

Chiara Cocchiara served as the Launch and Early Operations Phase (LEOP) Service Manager for the launch of Metop-C satellites.

GovernanceValue 3.4Oct 12, 2022SSPI’s 2022 Promise Award winners honored at Future Leaders Celebration during SatNews Publisher’s Silicon Valley Space Week event

A Soyuz ST-B rocket launched the Metop-C European weather satellite on 2018-11-06 from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Nov 6, 2018Soyuz launches European weather satellite

Metop-C has a mass of 4,084 kg and was built by Airbus Defence and Space for the European weather agency Eumetsat.

CapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.0Nov 6, 2018Soyuz launches European weather satellite

Metop-C will operate in the same 817-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit with a mid-morning crossing time as Metop-A and Metop-B.

CapabilityValue 4.2Nov 6, 2018Soyuz launches European weather satellite

Airbus Defence and Space built Metop-C for the European meteorological organization EUMETSAT.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Oct 30, 2018Arianespace Soyuz launch schedule unaffected by Russian MS-10 failure

Arianespace will launch the Metop-C weather satellite on its Europeanized Soyuz from the Guiana Space Center on the schedule set prior to the Russian crewed Soyuz mission.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Oct 30, 2018Arianespace Soyuz launch schedule unaffected by Russian MS-10 failure