{"id":77416,"date":"2014-05-28T00:44:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T16:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/esa-and-airbus-sign-first-documents-for-second-generation-meteorological-satellites\/"},"modified":"2014-05-28T00:44:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T16:44:44","slug":"esa-and-airbus-sign-first-documents-for-second-generation-meteorological-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/esa-and-airbus-sign-first-documents-for-second-generation-meteorological-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA and Airbus Sign First Documents for Second Generation Meteorological Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 05-27-2014] The <b>European Space Agency<\/b> (ESA) and <b>Airbus Defence and Space<\/b> signed the first contractual documents for the construction of the MetOp Second Generation (MetOp SG) weather satellites. The agreement was signed before German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the International Airshow ILA in Berlin, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The MetOp SG program is a joint cooperative between ESA and the <b>European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites <\/b>(EUMETSAT), and will provide enhancements to meteorological data. The program will use 10 different instruments to cover a complete range of observations including ultra-violet, visible, infrared and microwave spectral bands.<\/p>\n<p>The MetOp SG space segment consists of two series of satellites \u2014 \u201cSatellites A\u201d with a focus on optical instruments and \u201cSatellites B\u201d with a focus on microwave instruments \u2014 based on the Astrobus high power platforms, with up to three satellites allotted for each series. The industrial Airbus team in Toulouse, France will develop the \u201cA\u201d satellites, while the \u201cB\u201d satellites will be manufactured at the company\u2019s location in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The launch of the first Satellite \u201cA\u201d is scheduled for 2021, followed by the launch of the first Satellite \u201cB\u201d in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 05-27-2014] The European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus Defence and Space signed the first contractual documents for the construction of the MetOp Second Generation (MetOp SG) weather satellites. The agreement was signed before German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the International Airshow ILA in Berlin, Germany. The MetOp SG program is a joint cooperative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}