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ESA PRE-LAUNCH BFG FOR MetOp-SG-A1/SENTINEL-5, July 28, 2025, livestreamed, 8:00 am ET (14:00 CEST)
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ESA will hold a pre-launch briefing on July 28, 2025 at 14:00 Central European Summer Time (8:00 am Eastern Daylight Time) to discuss an upcoming launch on an Ariane 6 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana. The event will be livestreamed on ESA Web TV.
Ariane 6 will launch the first MetOp Second Generation weather satellite, MetOp-SG-A1, which carries the Copernicus Sentinel-5A spectrometer as one of six instruments. Details are in ESA’s press release.
Participants are:
- Simonetta Cheli, Director of Earth Observation Programmes at ESA,
- Phil Evans, Director-General at Eumetsat,
- Elisabeth Hamdouch, Deputy Head of Earth Observation Unit at the European Commission and
- Simon Brown, Managing Director for Products and Services at the UK Met Office