News & Features Apply Refine results Type Article News Categories Satellites Organisation Metop Tags Launch Press Release Date 2012 Date September SHOW ALL 2 results News 21 September 2012 ESA hands over control of the Metop-B weather satellite to EUMETSAT Yesterday, at 18:30 local time EUMETSAT took control of Metop-B operations News 17 September 2012 Metop-B successfully launched At 18:28 CEST (22:28 Baikonur time), Metop-B was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Soyuz 2.1a rocket.