ASCAT METOP-A is being deorbited

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ASCAT METOP-A is being deorbited

#1 Postby AJC3 » Sat Nov 20, 2021 4:11 am

After outliving its planned 5-year mission life by a whopping TEN years, EUMETSAT started the deorbiting of the ASCAT-METOP-A satellite on November 15th.

If you go to the NOAA ASCAT page for METOP-A, you'll see the following message:

The ASCAT instrument on Metop-A's mission ended on November 15, 2021. Metop-A was launched on 19 October 2006 and operated a little over 10 years beyond its design life. You can find more information at https://www.eumetsat.int/plans-metop-end-life.


Frequent users of ASCAT data already know that METOP-A was METOP-B had very similar orbits and datasets, so this isn't a huge data loss at all. Both METOP-B and METOP-C are still functioning and providing near real-time ocean surface wind data.
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