With launch scheduled for 13 August 2025 at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 Kourou time), the team at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana has been working to integrate the MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 upper-composite onto the Ariane 6 rocket.
MetOp-SG-A1 is Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation weather satellite and hosts the first Copernicus Sentinel-5 spectrometer as part of its instrument package.