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Third of EUMETSAT's second generation of Metop weather satellites.
Height 63.00 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 5000 kg
Liftoff Thrust 10370 kN
Diameter 5.40 Meters
Mass To LEO 10350 kg
Liftoff Mass 530 Tonnes
Launch Success 1
Consecutive Success 1
Maiden Flight 2024-07-09
Launch Failures 0
Copernicus is the European Union's Earth observation programme coordinated and managed for the European Commission by the European Union Agency for the Space Programme in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), the EU Member States. It aims at achieving a global, continuous, autonomous, high quality, wide range Earth observation capacity. Providing accurate, timely and easily accessible information to, among other things, improve the management of the environment, understand and mitigate the effects of climate change, and ensure civil security.