{"id":736536,"date":"2022-09-30T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=736536"},"modified":"2022-09-30T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T07:00:00","slug":"new-weather-satellite-on-its-way-to-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=736536","title":{"rendered":"New weather satellite on its way to launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/New_weather_satellite_on_its_way_to_launch_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:04:04<\/p>\n<p>The final pre-launch preparations for the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Meteorological_missions\/meteosat_third_generation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Meteosat Third Generation<\/a> (MTG) satellite are underway. The first satellite, called MTG-I1, built by a European industrial consortium led by Thales Alenia Space carries two imagers: an advanced Flexible Combined Imager \u00a0and, in a first for Europe, a Lightning Imager that will allow the earlier detection of storms and extreme weather events, as well as improve aviation safety.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Building on the long-standing partnership between ESA and Eumetsat, the MTG-I1 will be one of six satellites operating in a fleet, of three at a time, to ensure the continuity of data from the previous Meteosat satellites over the next 20 years. The first Meteosat was launched in 1977 and this third generation of spacecraft will be the most advanced yet, with improved image resolution and providing close to real time data for users, or \u2018nowcasting\u2019 of fast-developing, high-impact weather.<\/p>\n<p>The launch is currently scheduled for the end of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The film includes soundbites from\u00a0ESA\u00a0Director of Earth Observation Programmes:\u00a0Simonetta Cheli,\u00a0ESA\u00a0Meteosat Programme Manager:\u00a0Paul Blythe,\u00a0ESA\u00a0Meteosat Third Generation Payload Manager: Donny Aminou and\u00a0EUMETSAT,\u00a0Meteosat Third Generation Programme Manager:\u00a0Alexander Schmid.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2022\/09\/New_weather_satellite_on_its_way_to_launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New weather satellite on its way to launch<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:04:04 The final pre-launch preparations for the first Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellite are underway. The first satellite, called MTG-I1, built by a European industrial consortium led by Thales&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736537,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736536","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/736537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}