On 24 January 2015, Meteosat-7 becomes the longest-serving operational satellite in EUMETSAT history, clocking up 17 years of monitoring the weather from space. On 24 January 2015, Meteosat-7 becomes ...

A view of Antarctica & the moon can be seen in footage captured by the Meteosat-11 satellte. Credit: Simon Proud / NCEO and EUMETSAT | mash mix by Space.com ...

Meteosat-9, currently positioned at 3.5° E, will take over Meteosat-8 as the prime IODC (Indian Ocean Data Coverage) satellite, at the target longitude of 45.5° E, from 1 June 2022. After 20 years of ...

The first images from Europe's new weather satellite, Meteosat-12, have just been released. The spacecraft, which sits 36,000km above the equator, was launched in December and is currently in a ...

A recently launched weather satellite has sent back its first image of Earth, showing our planet in gorgeous detail. The European Meteosat Third Generation Imager-1 was launched in December of last ...

PARIS — A team led by ThalesAlenia Space of France and Italy and OHB Technology of Germany has been selected to build Europe’s next-generation meteorological satellites following a hotly contested — ...

Europe’s weather satellite organization, Eumetsat, has begun planning for its third generation of Meteosat meteorological satellites even as it copes with delays in the second-generation Meteosat ...

With a new lightning imager and advanced scanners, the third-generation satellite is set to boost weather forecasting and early storm detection. The first in a new generation of European weather ...

The third generation of Meteosat satellites (Meteosat Third Generation – MTG) are poised to ensure the continuity of data for weather forecasting for the next two decades, says the European Space ...

Tonight, the European Space Agency is launching the first of a new generation of satellites which they hope will revolutionise weather forecasting in Europe, and help predict sever weather events. The ...

The latest spacecraft in Europe's long-running Meteosat series has just gone into orbit on an Ariane rocket. It is now being manoeuvred into a position some 36,000km above the Earth from where it can ...

The most important European satellite of 2022 has just gone into orbit. Meteosat-12 rode out of the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana on an Ariane rocket to initiate a new era in weather forecasting.