MetOp weather satellite launched on Soyuz rocket

A Soyuz rocket lifted off from Kazakhstan on Monday and delivered Europe's newest weather satellite into polar orbit, reinforcing the meteorological toolkit of forecasters around the world. The commercialized Soyuz 2-1a booster launched at 1628 GMT (12:28 p.m. EDT), turned north from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and climbed into a dark sky on the way to orbit with the second of three MetOp weather observatories for Eumetsat, the European weather satellite agency. More

(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 19)