{"id":743161,"date":"2022-12-09T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=743161"},"modified":"2022-12-09T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:30:00","slug":"meteosat-third-generation-imager-launch-and-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=743161","title":{"rendered":"Meteosat Third Generation Imager launch and timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Meteosat_Third_Generation_Imager_launch_and_timeline_card_full.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The animation shows the full launch sequence and timeline 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> Imager (MTG-I1) satellite. MTG-I1 launches on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.<\/p>\n<p>MTG-I1 is the first of six satellites that form the full MTG system, which will provide critical data for weather forecasting over the next 20 years. In full operations, the mission will comprise two MTG-I satellites and one MTG Sounding (MTG-S) satellites working in tandem.<\/p>\n<p>The MTG-I satellites carry two completely new instruments, a Flexible Combined Imager and Europe\u2019s first Lightning Imager, to deliver high-quality data for better weather forecasting.<\/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\/12\/Meteosat_Third_Generation_Imager_launch_and_timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Meteosat Third Generation Imager launch and timeline<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The animation shows the full launch sequence and timeline for the first Meteosat Third Generation Imager (MTG-I1) satellite. MTG-I1 launches on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743162,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743161","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\/743161","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=743161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/743162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}