SGA1, a next-gen polar-orbiting weather satellite, from French Guiana. The mission, Ariane 6’s third flight, will enhance ...

The satellite carries a suite of six advanced instruments, including both upgraded and brand-new sensors, designed to provide meteorological data at unprecedented levels of detail.

It represents Europe's first contribution to a US-led programme, the Joint Polar System, a new satellite constellation orbiting between the north and south poles ...

As Europe battles record-breaking heat, the Ariane 6 rocket carrying the MetOp-SGA1 satellite successfully launched on ...

An Airbus-built satellite has been placed into orbit after successfully launching onboard an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s ...

Europe's Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket launched for the third time ever tonight (Aug. 12), sending an advanced weather and ...

More accurate weather forecasts - this is what the new European weather satellite Metop-SGA1 should make possible. The ...

Europe's Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket launched for the third time on Wednesday, carrying an advanced weather and climate ...

As many European countries simmer in a deadly heatwave, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) said its MetOp-SGA1 satellite will give "earlier warnings ...

Metop Second Generation A1 and B1 (Metop-SGA1 and Metop-SGB1) are the first pair of a total of six satellites in the EUMETSAT Polar System—Second Generation (EPS-SG) system.