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Europe’s next weather satellite passes final checks

Submit on Monday, January 30th, 2012 22:58

The Metop-B weather satellite has now passed its final checks in the clean room at Astrium, Toulouse, and will soon be transported to the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, in readiness for a planned launch in May 2012.Other Posts:Boeing ordered to pay US$237 million in damages to ICOMars Reconnaissance Orbiter nears end of aerobrakingBushnell Adding DigitalGlobe Imagery To GPS DevicesEchoStar, Harbinger invest in TerreStarGenesis I completes 10,000 orbitsDelta II booked for Italy’s third COSMO-SkyMedIDMI to launch DVB S2 broadband platform on NSS-7Russian, Kazakh space agencies clash over delayed W7 launch

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