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    spacecraft in November 2021 The successor to the Metop satellites will be MetOp-SG, currently with the first MetOp SG-A satellite expected to be launched in 2025...
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  • follow on from the three MetOp satellites and there are plans to perform a short tandem mission between the Metop-SG-A1 and Metop-C satellites to cross calibration...
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    Reports - DB Query for Metop-A". "FPAS Reports - DB Query for Metop-B". Wesley (9 April 2014). "MetOp-A satellite flare". "Video of Metop-A Flaring". 23 March...
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    System (EPS) Metop mission consists of three polar orbiting Metop satellites, to be flown successively for more than 14 years. The first, Metop-A, was launched...
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  • used aboard polar-orbiting, near-Earth weather satellite programs such as MetOp and NPOESS. LRPT provides three image channels at full sensor resolution...
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    A second generation of Metop satellites (MetOp-SG) is in advanced development with launch of the first satellite foreseen in 2025. As with MTG, Metop-SG...
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  • payload of the MetOp series of polar-orbiting meteorological satellites, there are currently two IASI instruments in operation: on MetOp-A (launched 19...
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    MetOp satellites. The instrument scans several channels; two are centered on the red (0.6 micrometres) and near-infrared (0.9 micrometres) regions, a...
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  • NOAA-19 (NOAA-N Prime), was launched on 6 February 2009. The ESA-provided MetOp satellite operated by EUMETSAT utilize POES-heritage instruments for the...
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    with AMSU-A and AMSU-B. Together the three instruments form ATOVS, the Advanced TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder. The Aqua and MetOp AMSU-A instruments...
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