Airborne signs contract for substrate panels solar-arrays MetOp Second Generation satellites

Airborne Aerospace has been selected by Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands to develop and manufacture the substrate panels for the solar array systems of the Meteorological Operational Second Generation (MetOp SG) satellites. The MetOp-SG satellites will ensure the continuity of essential weather information globally for the next decades. Airborne will manufacture 30 large sandwich substrate panels for the solar arrays of six MetOp-SG satellites and will deliver these before the end of 2017.