SPACE VIEW PARK, TITUSVILLE, FL – Spectators enjoyed a picture-perfect blastoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying European weather satellite MTG-S1 for the European Organization for the Exploration of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) at 5:04 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 1, 2025.

This Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1) satellite was carried to a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) so that it can be moved to operate in a geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) approx. 36,000 km (22,369 mi) above the equator.

We watched from Space View Park in Titusville, FL

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MTG-S1 will eventually be used to augment both weather monitoring and assessments of air quality and pollution for Europe and North Africa.

The SpaceX mission launched on their Falcon 9 first stage booster tail number B1085.9 thus on its 9^th times to space and back. Previous missions included NASA’s Crew-9, Fram2 and Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1.

F9 landed successfully on the JRTI droneship “Just Read the Instructions’ eight and a half minutes later.

This marked the 127th landing on JRTI and the 471st booster landing to date.

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