Successful liftoff delivers Sentinel4 on MTG satellite to enhance atmospheric forecasting
Thursday, 3 July 2025 () Paris, France (SPX) Jul 02, 2025
The European Space Agency has successfully launched the MTG-S1 satellite, marking the second deployment in the Meteosat Third Generation program and the first flight of the Copernicus Sentinel-4 instrument. The launch took place on Tuesday, 1 July, at 23:04 CEST via a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Now in geostationary orbit at 36,000 km above the equator, MTG-S1 is equipped