{"id":3041,"date":"2026-08-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/mtg-i2-ready-for-launch\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:00:00","slug":"mtg-i2-ready-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/mtg-i2-ready-for-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"MTG-I2 ready for launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2026\/08\/mtg-i2_ready_for_launch\/27433458-1-eng-GB\/MTG-I2_ready_for_launch_card_full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:00:31<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Meteorological_missions\/meteosat_third_generation\" target=\"_blank\">Meteosat Third Generation<\/a>-Imager2 (MTG-I2) satellite, is ready for launch on board an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Transportation\/Ariane\">Ariane 6<\/a>\u00a0launcher from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana. Lift off is scheduled for 27 August 2026 at 22:10 CEST (17:10 local time).<\/p>\n<p>MTG-I2 is part of the MTG constellation for Eumetsat \u2013 two are already in orbit. It will produce images for weather forecasting in Europe in unprecedented detail. This mission provides completely new data products and capabilities for European weather services, especially suited to short-term forecasting of severe weather events.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:00:31 The Meteosat Third Generation-Imager2 (MTG-I2) satellite, is ready for launch on board an Ariane 6\u00a0launcher from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana. Lift off is scheduled for 27 August 2026 at 22:10 CEST (17:10 local time). MTG-I2 is part of the MTG constellation for Eumetsat \u2013 two are already in orbit. It will produce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}