{"id":80678,"date":"2013-07-09T23:46:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/astrium-to-deliver-six-mtg-propulsion-systems-to-ohb\/"},"modified":"2013-07-09T23:46:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:46:35","slug":"astrium-to-deliver-six-mtg-propulsion-systems-to-ohb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/astrium-to-deliver-six-mtg-propulsion-systems-to-ohb\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrium to Deliver Six MTG Propulsion Systems to OHB"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"150\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"6\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/Meteosat.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\nThe Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) weather satellites are operated by EUMETSAT.<br \/>\nImage credit: Astrium\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[Satellite TODAY 07-09-13] <b>Astrium <\/b>has signed a contract for the delivery of propulsion systems for six Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) weather satellites operated by <b>EUMETSAT<\/b>. Astrium will be responsible for the delivery of the complete sub-systems: from initial design, to construction and diagnostics, through to supply, integration, and testing. The first complete unit is scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2015.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The MTG series will include four satellites (MTG I) equipped with imaging instrumentation, and two satellites (MTG S) with sounding instruments. <b>ESA <\/b>is developing two prototype MTG satellites (MTG I1 and MTG S1) based on EUMETSAT\u2019s user and system specifications, and is coordinating the delivery of the subsequent satellites based on EUMETSAT\u2019s requirements. The prime contractor for the MTG program is <b>Thales Alenia<\/b> in France, and <b>OHB System AG<\/b> was selected as a partner in the program for six satellite platforms as well as taking a lead role on both of the sounder satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) weather satellites are operated by EUMETSAT. Image credit: Astrium [Satellite TODAY 07-09-13] Astrium has signed a contract for the delivery of propulsion systems for six Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) weather satellites operated by EUMETSAT. Astrium will be responsible for the delivery of the complete sub-systems: from initial design, to construction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-80678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80678"}],"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=80678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}