European Weather Satellite To Launch On Tuesday

WEATHER REPORT

MetOp-A satellite on the launch pad at Baikonur.

by Staff Writers
Paris (AFP) Oct 15, 2006
A European weather and environment satellite, MetOp-A, whose launch from Russia's space base in Kazakhstan has been delayed four times, is set to go into space on Tuesday. The MetOp-A observation satellite, the most complex ever built, will carry around a dozen instruments for measuring weather patterns and monitoring climate change, the European Space Agency says. Its future operator is the European weather satellite consortium, Eumetsat.

The launch is now planned for 10:28 pm (1628 GMT) at the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan, when a Russian Soyuz-Fregat will lift off with the satellite on board.

The four-tonne polar-orbiting satellite was to have been launched in July, but has been plagued by a series of problems.

The last hitch was earlier this month when the rocket's upper stage was knocked as it was being attached to the lower stage for launching.

Two similar satellites are to be launched in coming years.

Source: Agence France-Presse

WEATHER REPORT

Starsem Ready To Launch First MetOp Weather Satellite

Paris, France (SPX) Oct 12, 2006
MetOp is scheduled for launch by Starsem on the 17th of October, using a Soyuz rocket. Astrium Satellites business unit is the satellite prime contractor and responsible for three of the eleven instruments on board the spacecraft.

DISASTER MANAGEMENT North Korea Braces For Sanctions Inter-Korean Projects In Jeopardy British Experts Smoke Out Hi-Tech Help For Fire Rescue Year Of 'Quake Jihad' For Pakistan Militants	CLIMATE SCIENCE NASA Live Tropical Seas Surface Temperature Website Gives Climate, Hurricane Clues Northern Bogs May Have Helped Kick-Start Past Global Warming Natural Climate Change Periodically Wipes Out Mammal Species Asia-Pacific Faces Global Warming Disaster
EARTH OBSERVATION Deimos And Surrey Satellite Technology Contract For Spanish Imaging Mission NASA Satellite Data Helps Assess the Health of Florida's Coral Reef Alcatel Alenia Space To Build SIRAL-2 Radar Altimeter For CryoSat-2 Earth from Space: The French Frigate Shoals	ENERGY TECH Think-Tank To Focus On Aluminium Industry Sustainability China Poses No Threat To Global Energy Supply Harvesting Machine Driving Mesquite-to-Ethanol Potential Russian Export Blend Could Replace Urals Crude As Main Index Setter
EPIDEMICS West Java Goes Own Way On Avian Flu Management A Biocontrol Agent Which Doesn't Trigger Antibiotic Resistance US, Australian Scientists Develop Vaccine Against Deadly Viruses 'Killer' B Cells Provide New Link In The Evolution Of Immunity	FLORA AND FAUNA Possible Evidence Of Cell Division, Differentiation Found In Oldest Known Embryo Fossils Bacterial Intelligence Giant Insects Might Reign If Only There Was More Oxygen In The Air Composting May Be Alternative In Wake Of Horse Slaughter Bill
FROTH AND BUBBLE South Korea Says No Unusual Radiation After North Korean Test More Than 950 Children In Northwest China Suffer Lead Poisoning Canadin Prime Minister Says New Clean Air Act Coming Monitoring Contaminants In Water Systems In Real Time	ABOUT US American Population About To Pass 300 Million Mark Rapid Rise In The Arctic Ocean May Alter Views Of Human Migration Democrat Push For Wellness Agency More Than Meets The Human Eye

The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2006 - SpaceDaily.AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA PortalReports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additionalcopyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement,agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any Web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy Statement