After 17 days in space, the Meteosat Third Generation sounder (MTG-S1) satellite, which launched on 1 July from Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, successfully concluded another mission milestone: the launch and early orbit phase (LEOP).
LEOP was managed by Telespazio, supported by a combined project support team led by ESA and including specialists from OHB SE, Thales Alenia Space, and Eumetsat. Altogether, around 130 people were involved in this tightly coordinated phase, working around the clock from the Telespazio Mission Control Centre in Fucino and the Backup Control Centre in Cannes.
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