05 April 2017
The final journey for EUMETSAT’s oldest operational meteorological satellite
... way to its final resting place in the “graveyard orbit” in the skies. Launched on 2 September 1997, Meteosat-7 was developed under the Meteosat Transition Programme (MTP), and was part of a pioneering geostationary weather programme that shaped the...
February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
... member states, through its EUMETCast real-time data. These future programmes, together with EUMETSAT’s geostationary Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) programme, will ensure consistent and timely observations of the weather, environment and climate...
14 November 2019
Met services prepare for next-generation satellite systems
... week. EUMETSAT Director-General Alain Ratier said the organisation's two next-generation meteorological satellite systems, Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) and EUMETSAT Polar System - Second Generation (EPS-SG), will help forecasters and climate...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... 1986 and was implemented with a series of geostationary (Meteosat) and polar orbiting (Metop) satellites, where ESA builds...polar climate and the global ocean circulation pattern. The Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellite programme will bring a ...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
... at wavelengths stretching out as far as 18 µm. Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Imaging and Sounding satellites will ... the Flexible Combined Imager, which will be fitted to the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites scheduled to launch in 2022. ...
October 2017
Colouring our view of the oceans
... in an integrated marine data stream incorporating data from its own polar-orbiting Metop satellites and geostationary Meteosat spacecraft, the joint European-US Jason satellite altimetry missions and data secured under agreements with its...
