00:00Bored is our passenger, Metops second generation A1, the first in a new series of European weather satellites,
00:08which will also improve our predictions of extreme events like storms and better understand climate change.
00:15It carries six instruments on one satellite, including Sentinel-5, to analyse our atmosphere as part of Europe's Copernicus Earth Observation Programme.
00:27Now, we are about 16 kilometers from that pad, overlooking the Mission Control Center.
00:35Indeed, that's actually our view from the comment after that.
00:38Yes, so tonight the IM6 launch vehicle will lift off towards north, powered by its main cryogenic engine and its two solid propellant booster.
00:48So this will be separated 2 minutes and 15 seconds after launch, followed 1 minute and 17 seconds later by the fairing separation, once the launcher has left the Earth's atmosphere.
01:00The launcher will continue its ascent up to 7 minutes and 35 seconds when the main stage will have finished its job.
01:07So the onboard computer will command the shutdown of the Vulcan engine and the main stage will be separated.
01:14A few seconds later, the Vincere upper stage engine will be ignited for the first time and will burn for about 12 minutes putting the launcher into an intermediate orbit.
01:25We will then have a long casting phase going up around the North Pole and down Eastern Asia until shortly before the hour when the upper stage will be reignited close to Australia.
01:38This second boost, which will last only 47 seconds, will allow to reach the targeted orbit, then therefore METOP-SGA1 will be separated.
01:51And after that, the upper stage will enter a new casting phase before a third boost, which will slow it down, followed by stage passivation and leading to a re-entry above the Indian Ocean.
02:05And this de-orbitation will avoid, of course, leaving any debris in orbit, any debris in space.
02:15Very, very important.
02:16A to the video, attention for the final count.
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