Lift-off of MSG-4 onboard Ariane 5 from Kourou, French Guiana
Eumetsat's MSG-4 weather satellite, carrying the 4th Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB-4) instrument, was launched on 15 July 2015.
Eumetsat's Meteosat Second Generation (MSG-4) geostationary weather satellite, carrying the fourth Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB-4) instrument was successfully launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 21:42 GMT on 15 July 2015.
GERB-4 is the last of the four GERB radiation budget instruments, all of which were calibrated within the Earth Observation Calibration Facility at Imperial. Members of the Space and Atmospheric Physics group also have responsibility for the instrument operations and provide overall scientific leadership for the GERB programme. GERB-4 is expected to be activated for testing around the start of next month, but the satellite and instrument will then be in storage until 2018 when it is scheduled to take over from the current GERB-3. The full GERB data record will extend from 2004 to the end of the MSG mission and represents the world's only set of broadband radiation measurements available from Geostationary orbit.
Interested in obtaining data from the GERB mission? Contact Jacqui Russell (j.e.russell@imperial.ac.uk) for further information.
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