MetOp-SG

MetOp-SG, short for Meteorological Operational Satellite Second Generation, is a series of six weather satellites developed by the European Space Agency and EUMETSAT, with launches planned from 2025 to 2039. A contract signed in October 2014 gave Airbus Defence and Space the construction of the satellites, worth 1.3 billion euros for the six spacecraft. They are built in two series. The A series carries visible, infrared and microwave imagers and sounders, along with the Copernicus Sentinel-5 spectrometer, while the B series carries microwave imagers and radars, including a scatterometer and an ice cloud imager. The first A-series satellite, MetOp-SG A1, was launched on an Ariane 6 on 12 August 2025, and the first B-series satellite is set to launch in 2026. The series follows on from the three first-generation MetOp satellites.