MetOp to be launched on 17 October
MetOp will lift off at 18:28 CEST (16:28 UTC; 22:28 local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on a Soyuz/ST launcher.
Due to a mechanical incident at the Baikonur launch base on 30 September, the launch of MetOp originally planned for Saturday 7 October 2006, had to be postponed.
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