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Metop-A completes 30,000th orbit

On 31 July, EUMETSATs Metop-A polar-orbiting satellite completed its 30,000th orbit, which it started at 07:55:45 UTC.
Metop-A has travelled over 1.35 billion kilometres around its orbit since its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 19 October 2006.
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Since the Metop-A anomaly observed on 4 July 2007 when the AHRPT transmitter was observed to have autonomously switched off, our investigations with Astrium and ESA/ESTEC remained focussed on the status of the failed AHRPT sub-system. These investigations have thus far concluded that the failure on the nominal AHRPT is of a permanent, non-correctable nature and as such, the nominal AHRPT subsystem cannot be used for the remaining operational life-time of the Metop-A spacecraft.
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European governments, meeting U.S. rules, will create a list of organisations that can't use data from future weather satellites carrying U.S. instruments.
The list to be provided by the Eumetsat organisation, based in Darmstadt, Germany, will effectively determine which organizations may be denied data from Eumetsat's Metop satellites following a U.S. request.
U.S. and European authorities already have developed the outline of the Data Denial Implementation Plan.

"What we have to agree to is a list of organisations, agencies and institutions that will be refused data following a U.S. request. The U.S. has some very specific ideas about who these people are. We don't like the idea. It's not something we're comfortable with" - European government official.

The Metop-1 satellite is the first European polar-orbiting meteorological satellite and part of a U.S.-European Joint Polar System. European instruments fly on U.S.-provided satellites, and the United States is providing instruments on the Metop spacecraft.
The data denial agreement involves the U.S. Defence Department because the U.S. military and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are merging their weather satellite systems.

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For 28 years, Europe has been operating its famous Meteosat weather satellites in geostationary orbit. Today, they were joined by the first of a brand new generation of meteorological satellites. MetOp is designed to provide a closer view of the atmosphere from low earth orbit, delivering data that will improve global weather prediction and enhance our understanding of climate change.
The first of three satellites developed under a joint programme being carried out by the European Space Agency and the European Meteorological Satellite Organisation (EUMESAT), MetOp-A was successfully launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan by a Russian Soyuz 2/Fregat rocket operated by the Euro-Russian company Starsem.

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Today, Europe entered a new era of weather and climate monitoring when the first in the series of operational meteorological satellites in polar orbit, MetOp, was successfully launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan on a Soyuz Fregat launcher at 16:28 UTC (18:28 CEST; 22:28 Baikonur time).
After separation from the launcher and injection of the satellite into orbit, the solar array was deployed autonomously using a pre-defined on-board command sequence. Control of the satellite was then taken over by the European Space Agency’s Operations Control Centre (ESA/ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. ESOC will now perform the Early Orbit Phase operations such as the initiation and configuration of the Service Module, the main Payload Module items and the deployment of all antennas. This phase is expected to last 3 days, and control of the satellite would then be transferred to EUMETSAT on 22 October.

Following the launch, EUMETSAT’s Director-General, Dr. Lars Prahm, thanked Starsem and its Russian partners for the successful launch and praised the project teams for their outstanding work. He also paid tribute to European space industries for their contribution in designing and constructing the satellite. Special acknowledgements were given to ESA, NOAA and CNES for the excellent cooperation in developing and procuring the satellite and its payload.

MetOp flies at an altitude of about 837 km (i.e. approximately 43 times closer to Earth than a geostationary satellite). The MetOp series consists of a total of three satellites, which are designed to provide meteorological operational data from polar orbit until 2020. The global data sets gathered by the MetOp satellites will revolutionise the way the Earth’s weather, climate and environment are observed, in particular they are expected to significantly improve operational meteorology through the provision of additional data for Numerical Weather Prediction Models. MetOp will also provide an important contribution towards the improvement of severe weather forecasts and disaster mitigation.

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Separation confirmed, and successful deployment of the MetOp-A spacecraft

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Metop, Europe's most sophisticated weather and climate satellite, has launched successfully from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The satellite should improve weather forecasts, and give scientists the data they need to refine climate models.
A Russian Soyuz rocket lifted Metop off the launch pad at 1628 GMT.

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