Metop-B to be shipped to launch site
Submit on Monday, March 5th, 2012 22:58
Metop-B, the European operational polar orbiting weather satellite designed and manufactured by Astrium, recently left the clean room at the company’s site in Toulouse. Metop-B was prepared for shipping to the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where a Soyuz launcher will place it in orbit with Starsem. The target launch date is 23 May 2012.
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