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Launch Date
11/7/2018
Launch Site
CSG ELS
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Launch Vehicle
Soyuz-ST-B Fregat (Soyuz Family)
Metop-C will operate in the same 817-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit with a mid-morning crossing time as Metop-A and Metop-B.
Airbus Defence and Space built Metop-C for the European meteorological organization EUMETSAT.
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.
Chiara Cocchiara served as the Launch and Early Operations Phase (LEOP) Service Manager for the launch of Metop-C satellites.
As of July 11, 2021, a USN STA request sought a 180-day authorization to support Metop-A de-orbit and future LEOP ranging qualification testing using Metop-B and Metop-C with downlink frequency 2230.000 MHz and uplink frequency 2053.458 MHz.
An internal ESA study initiated in 2024 assessed options to remove METOP-A, METOP-B and METOP-C from orbit, including an option to first remove METOP-A as an in-orbit demonstration.
Metop-C has a mass of 4,084 kg and was built by Airbus Defence and Space for the European weather agency Eumetsat.