Providing critical operational climate data that is used in developing current and extended weather forecasts.
Whats Next?
- Batch 1 Red/Green Tag Activities – AVHRR at CSG Kourou, French Guiana - September 27
- MetOp-C Countdown Rehearsal at CSG Kourou, French Guiana - September 28
- Batch 2 Red/Green Tag Activities – AMSU at CSG Kourou, French Guiana - October 16
- MetOp-C SIOV Simulation #5 at EUMETSAT in Darmstadt DE - October 18
- Batch 3 Red/Green Tag Activities – SEM at CSG Kourou, French Guiana - October 29
- Batch 5 Red/Green Tag Activities – Final Inspections at CSG Kourou, French Guiana - November 5
- MetOp-C target launch on a Soyuz launch vehicle from of the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) in Kourou, French Guiana - November 6
- US Instrument Activations Complete – November 12
- SIOV Complete - TBD
- SIOV Report Complete - TBD
Status Updates
- MetOp-C Satellite In-Orbit Verification (SIOV) Simulation #4 (US Instruments) at EUMETSAT in Darmstadt DE - August 21 & 22- successfully completed
- MetOp-C spacecraft and ESGE ship to Launch Site - June 26, 2018
- LORR-2 Kick-off Meeting - May 23, 2018
- The project presented status of U.S. instruments at EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) Day at EUMETSAT Headquarters in Darmstadt DE - January 31, 2018.
- Launch site survey was held in Kourou, French Guiana at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) - February 5-9, 2018.
- MetOp-C System Functional Testing (SFT) was completed at Airbus in Toulouse FR from February 20 - March 7, 2018.
- MetOp-C Flight Acceptance Review (FAR) Kickoff Meeting was hosted by ESA near European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, South Holland, in the western Netherlands - March 15, 2018.
- Metop-C Satellite Systems Verification Testing (SSVT-6) was conducted in a joint test operated out of EUMETSAT Headquarters in Darmstadt DE and Airbus in Toulouse FR - April 24-27, 2018.
- MetOp-C Environmental testing was completed - late December 2017.
- MetOp-C Radio Frequency (RF) testing was successfully conducted at Airbus - Toulouse FR. All US instrument performance was nominal - September 2017
- AMSU-A1, AMSU-A2, AVHRR, and SEM performance was nominal during post-shipment abbreviated functional testing which was conducted at Airbus - Toulouse FR - July 4-5, 2017
- Preparation for, and shipment of the Payload Module and ground support equipment to Airbus in Toulouse, France was completed without incident - June 2017
- The MetOp-C Payload Module (PLM) completed thermal vacuum testing. All US instrument performance was nominal - April 2017
- The MetOp-C payload module was shipped from Airbus - Friedrichshafen, DE and arrived at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Holland - January 4, 2017
- System Functional Testing of Payload Module (including all U.S. instruments) successfully completed at Airbus - Friedrichshafen, DE - late November 2016
MetOp-C is the next (and last) mission in the original a series of three polar orbiting weather satellites from EUMETSAT and ESA.
Under an interagency agreement between NOAA (NESDIS) and NASA (GSFC), the POES project is providing four heritage POES instruments: AMSU-A1, AMSU-A2, AVHRR/3 and SEM-2 to ESA and EUMETSAT in support of the MetOp-C Mission.
Contact POES
POES Project Manager
Gene Martin
POES Deputy Project Manager
Ronald J. Hooker, DSc.
NASA MetOp Mission Manager
Roberto M. Alemán
POES/MetOp Instrument Systems Manager [Vacant]
CONTACT
NASA Official: Gene MartinContent Manager: Curtis Hess
Curator: Jennifer Brill