{"id":221603,"date":"2014-10-16T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"19d08d2c71b12e92981ee9b6d079dc2e"},"modified":"2014-10-16T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T15:48:00","slug":"metop-sg-contracts-signature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=221603","title":{"rendered":"MetOp-SG contracts signature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/10\/metop-sg_contracts_signature\/14978937-2-eng-GB\/MetOp-SG_contracts_signature_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe contracts to build the family of MetOp Second Generation weather satellites were signed today, 16 October 2014, by Volker Liebig, ESA\u2019s Director of Earth Observation Programmes, and Eric B\u00e9ranger, Head of Space Systems Programmes at Airbus Defence and Space. The ceremony took place at ESA\u2019s headquarters in Paris and was also attended by Genevi\u00e8ve Fioraso, the French Minister for Higher Education and Research, Jean-Jacques Dordain and ESA&#8217;s Director General, Alain Ratier, Eumetsat\u2019s Director-General.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMetOp-SG, which consists of two series of satellites with three satellites in each series, is a collaborative undertaking between ESA and Eumetsat, and will provide Europe with essential meteorological observations from polar orbit from the early 2020\u2019s to the mid-2040\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/10\/metop-sg_contracts_signature\/14978937-2-eng-GB\/MetOp-SG_contracts_signature_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe contracts to build the family of MetOp Second Generation weather satellites were signed today, 16 October 2014, by Volker Liebig, ESA\u2019s Director of Earth Observation Programmes, and Eric B\u00e9ranger, Head of Space Systems Programmes at Airbus Defence and Space. The ceremony took place at ESA\u2019s headquarters in Paris and was also attended by Genevi\u00e8ve Fioraso, the French Minister for Higher Education and Research, Jean-Jacques Dordain and ESA&#8217;s Director General, Alain Ratier, Eumetsat\u2019s Director-General.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMetOp-SG, which consists of two series of satellites with three satellites in each series, is a collaborative undertaking between ESA and Eumetsat, and will provide Europe with essential meteorological observations from polar orbit from the early 2020\u2019s to the mid-2040\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}