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Arianespace’s Ariane 6 successfully launches Metop-SGA1 weather satellite “This is the beginning of an exciting new chapter”
SatNews
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August 13, 2025
On August 12, 2025 at 9:37 p.m. local time in Kourou, French Guiana (00:37 a.m. UTC, 2:37 a.m. CEST, on August 13), Ariane 6 lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport carrying EUMETSAT’s Metop-SGA1 satellite. With this second commercial flight, Ariane 6,...
Ariane 6 rocket launches with next-gen weather satellite as deadly heatwave hits Europe
Dunya News
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(AFP) - As Europe battles record-breaking heat, the Ariane 6 rocket carrying the MetOp-SGA1 satellite successfully launched on Wednesday from French Guiana. Developed by the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites,...
Successful launch of Airbus-built satellite ushers in new era of meteorology
AeroTime News
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August 13, 2025
An Airbus-built satellite has been placed into a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 800 km after successfully launching onboard an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The Ariane 6 rocket blasted off on August 12,...
Story Applications First MetOp-SG and Sentinel-5 launched 13/08/2025 6385 views 45 likes Read
ESA
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Applications 13/08/2025 6385 views 45 likes Ushering in a new era of weather and climate monitoring from polar orbit, the first in a new series of satellites, MetOp Second Generation, has been lofted into orbit aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from the...
Arianespace ready for Tuesday launch of EUMETSAT’s Metop-SG A1 weather satellite
SatNews
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August 12, 2025
Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite — which hosts Copernicus Sentinel-5 as part of its instrument package — is set for liftoff on an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 13 August...
Teledyne Space Imaging Sensors are launched with EUMETSAT’s MetOp-SG-A1 satellite
SatNews
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August 13, 2025
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), a provider of advanced imaging solutions, has launched a suite of sensors designed and manufactured by Teledyne Space Imaging that are onboard the MetOp-SG-A1 satellite. MetOp-SG-A1 is the first unit...
Petrobras Inches Closer to Amazon Oil Exploration License
Oil Price
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August 13, 2025
Brazil’s state-controlled energy giant Petrobras is getting closer to obtaining an exploration permit to drill in an environmentally sensitive offshore region in the Amazon basin. Petrobras, which has been seeking for years to obtain a license to...
Metop-SG satellites to boost extreme weather nowcasting and climate monitoring
Military & Aerospace Electronics
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August 11, 2025
KOUROU, French Guiana - At 02:37 CEST on 13 August 2025, the Metop-SGA1 satellite of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) will lift off from Kourou, French Guiana, on an Ariane 6 rocket. The...
With Ariane 6, Arianespace successfully launches Metop-SGA1 satellite
All Andorra
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August 13, 2025
The Metop-SGA1 satellite is the first of the next generation of European polar-orbiting weather satellites. Amongst six instruments hosted on board, it carries the Copernicus Sentinel-5 atmospheric monitoring mission. The VA264 mission represents...
From Earth to Jupiter
OnlySky
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August 13, 2025
If life were found on Jupiter’s moon Europa, it would be the most significant discovery in the history of space exploration. It would fundamentally change our understanding of biology and prove the potential for life beyond Earth. The discovery of...
Nine years since TTFA started its elite/high performance model, is T&T’s youth football better or worse off?
Wired 868
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August 14, 2025
On 25 July, Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president Kieron Edwards suggested that “progress” was being made with regards to the country’s eligibility law, which would widen the pool of players available for the national football...
10 lessons from the James Webb telescope that could shape European tech
The Next Web
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August 13, 2025
The scientific world is reeling. New discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope — a joint project by the European Space Agency(ESA), NASA, and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) — aren’t just surprising, they’re contradicting our deepest...
Europe launches Ariane 6 to send Airbus SE-made satellite into polar orbit
Hindustan Times
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August 13, 2025
A troubled European rocket critical to the continent’s goal of reducing its reliance on Elon Musk’s SpaceX thundered off a launchpad for its third-ever mission. Ariane 6's success particularly important to European countries that are seeking to...
Barbados set for Caribbean’s largest green hydrogen plant
Barbados Today
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August 9, 2025
80 Barbados is poised to become home to the largest and most technologically advanced renewable energy power plant in the English-speaking Caribbean, with construction of a $350 million hybrid facility expected to begin by March next year, senior...
Story Applications First MetOp-SG satellite sealed within Ariane 6 fairing 05/08/2025 2723 views 51 likes Read
ESA
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Applications 05/08/2025 2723 views 51 likes As preparations to launch Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, satellite continue on track, the team at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, has bid a heartfelt farewell to this...
A Look at Arcos Dorados Holdings's Upcoming Earnings Report
Benzinga
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Arcos Dorados Holdings ARCO will release its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday, 2025-08-13. Here's a brief overview for investors ahead of the announcement. Analysts anticipate Arcos Dorados Holdings to report an earnings per share (EPS) of...
After Crude Oil, Coffee Beans are Second Most Traded Raw Material Worldwide
Space Coast Daily - Florida
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coffee’s beginnings are enveloped in mystery and lore Coffee beans are now the second most traded raw material worldwide, after crude oil, with sales over $55 billion a year. Legend has it that one day, many hundreds of years ago in the Ethiopian...
Huntsville Firm Aids Space Microscope Launch That Could Detect Alien Life
Speakin' Out News - Alabama
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July 22, 2025
By SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS NASA’s new ultraviolet telescope launches aboard a satellite from French Guiana in July 2025. Engineers from Huntsville’s CFD Research helped design critical onboard components for deep-space analysis. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A...
THE YEARS BEYOND EMANCIPATION AT A GLANCE
Guyana Chronicle
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August 10, 2025
EMANCIPATION was not a continuous celebration for the formerly enslaved African population, but rather a challenge of survival. Thus, they persisted, carrying the memory of past hardships into the new day to shape a better future than the past....
International Space Station Fast Facts
KESQ-TV - California
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August 8, 2025
CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the International Space Station (ISS), a station operated by a partnership of five space agencies from 15 countries. Information on ISS crews and expeditions can be found here. Statistics The ISS...