US EditionSee Photos: SpaceX Rocket Launch in Florida Delivers MTG-S1 Weather Satellite for ESA
- On July 1, 2025, a Falcon 9 vehicle from SpaceX successfully lifted off from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A, delivering EUMETSAT's MTG-S1 weather satellite into geostationary orbit.
- EUMETSAT contracted SpaceX despite preferring European providers due to exceptional circumstances, with Director-General Phil Evans affirming this does not compromise European support policies.
- The MTG-S1 satellite, carrying the Copernicus Sentinel-4 instrument for monitoring air quality and trace gases hourly over Europe and North Africa, aims to improve severe weather forecasting and air quality assessment.
- The launch occurred at 5:04 p.m. ET during a 150-minute window with only a 20% favorable weather forecast, and the Falcon 9's first-stage booster performed its ninth successful recovery landing on the Atlantic droneship Just Read the Instructions.
- This launch marked SpaceX's 57th from Florida's Space Coast in 2025 and, if successful, MTG-S1 will enhance Europe's climate resilience and forecasting capabilities for at least 8.5 years.
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union-bulletin.comWeather clears as SpaceX launches European satellite
SpaceX was facing a poor forecast for its Tuesday launch attempt of a European satellite on the Space Coast, but the skies cleared and the rocket lifted off right on time.
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Cloud photos from space have been available for more than 50 years. A weather satellite has now started in Florida, which can do much more. It was built at OHB in Bremen.
·Bremen, Germany
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