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Meteor seen by Meteosat Third Generation Imager

Fireball witnessed by weather satellite

22/05/2024 4281 views 25 likes

All eyes on the Arctic Weather Satellite

04/04/2024 1827 views 19 likes

Fixing the Arctic Weather Satellite to the shaker

Arctic Weather Satellite tested for life in orbit

14/03/2024 2227 views 19 likes

Full Earth disc from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager

Top 10 Earth observation stories of 2023

20/12/2023 12117 views 83 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite in the cleanroom

Arctic Weather Satellite in shape

20/11/2023 5394 views 91 likes

Two MetOp-SG satellites on show

MetOp Second Generation weather satellite pair show off

15/11/2023 3792 views 74 likes

The MTG Infrared Sounder prior to integration on MTG-S1

Putting the S in the first Meteosat Third Generation Sounder

14/08/2023 4111 views 80 likes

Lightning over Europe

European satellite strikes lightning

03/07/2023 17569 views 68 likes

Full Earth disc from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager

New weather satellite reveals spectacular images of Earth

04/05/2023 155207 views 434 likes

Air pollution

Earth observation supports latest UN climate report

20/03/2023 5055 views 70 likes

Preparing to test Sentinel-4

Sentinel-4 set to join next weather satellite

09/02/2023 3574 views 66 likes

MTG-I1 heads for orbit

A new era of weather forecasting begins

14/12/2022 10518 views 71 likes

MTG-I1 poised for launch

MTG-I1 rolled out and good to go

13/12/2022 3705 views 46 likes

MTG-I1 and Ariane 5 booster jettison

Watch live launch of Meteosat Third Generation Imager-1

12/12/2022 14377 views 89 likes

Time say farewell to MTG-I1

MTG-I1 never to be seen again

07/12/2022 5684 views 100 likes

Geared up for fuelling

Locked and loaded

28/11/2022 4494 views 65 likes

Understanding Earth’s winds

Putting a value on ESA’s Aeolus wind mission

18/11/2022 2525 views 49 likes

MTG-I1 looking good after voyage

Europe’s all-new weather satellite arrives at launch site

18/10/2022 3932 views 84 likes

MTG-I1 ready to set sail

Europe’s new weather satellite sets sail

30/09/2022 3555 views 53 likes

MTG-I1 on display in the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space’s facilities in Cannes.

MTG-I1 weather satellite shows off

09/09/2022 5892 views 78 likes

Telespazio control centre

Operation centres in tune for upcoming weather satellite

28/07/2022 4051 views 74 likes

Living Planet Symposium opening address

Living Planet concludes with record numbers

27/05/2022 4343 views 56 likes

Living Planet Symposium 2022

Last chance to register for ESA’s Living Planet Symposium

09/05/2022 1953 views 28 likes

Earth

Earth from Space: Earth Day

22/04/2022 30771 views 70 likes

MTG to monitor lightning

Weather satellite prepares for lightning

20/04/2022 4310 views 89 likes

MTG-I pushed into the thermal vacuum chamber

MTG-I weather satellite passes tests in preparation for lif…

23/03/2022 4506 views 70 likes

Living Planet Symposium 2022

Register for ESA’s Living Planet Symposium in Bonn

11/03/2022 16329 views 73 likes

Explore ESA’s interactive Climate Change Kit

04/11/2021 13726 views 121 likes

Living Planet Symposium 2022

Living Planet Symposium 2022: time for abstracts

21/10/2021 3811 views 37 likes

Meteosat Third Generation takes major step towards its firs…

02/09/2021 5755 views 99 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite

Contract signed to build Arctic weather satellite

09/03/2021 22515 views 132 likes

MetOp Second Generation

Enabling & Support

Testing time for MetOp Second Generation

25/11/2019 6387 views 57 likes

Surviving the shaker brings better weather forecasting a st…

02/07/2019 2629 views 37 likes

Cloud-free Europe

New observations for the new economy

08/03/2019 10238 views 88 likes

From pole to pole

Enabling & Support

Handing over MetOp-C

12/11/2018 4356 views 44 likes

MetOp-C liftoff

Europe’s third polar-orbiting weather satellite lofted into…

07/11/2018 6863 views 85 likes

MetOp-C in launch tower

MetOp-C ready for big day

05/11/2018 6369 views 68 likes

Flight Operations Director Hervé Côme at ESOC

Enabling & Support

Counting down to MetOp-C

31/10/2018 4748 views 55 likes

MetOp-C arrives at Cayenne

MetOp-C launch campaign kicks off

09/07/2018 6066 views 87 likes

Meteosat-1 launch

Forty years of Meteosat

22/11/2017 6152 views 112 likes

Earth seen by Meteosat

Shared vision strengthens Europe’s space strategy

08/11/2017 4386 views 45 likes

MSG-4 in orbit

ESA hands over control of the MSG-4 weather satellite

27/07/2015 5709 views 61 likes

MSG-4 liftoff

Europe’s MSG-4 weather satellite delivered into orbit

15/07/2015 13534 views 73 likes

Ariane flight VA224 on the launchpad

Enabling & Support

MSG-4 launch timeline

14/07/2015 6718 views 36 likes

Team training

Enabling & Support

ESA teams ready for Europe’s next weather satellite

09/07/2015 5804 views 44 likes

MetOp Second Generation

Europe secures new generation of weather satellites

16/10/2014 12355 views 66 likes

Bardarbunga plume

Bardarbunga belches

05/09/2014 13329 views 103 likes

Signature MetOp Second Generation

Taking weather forecasting into the future

20/05/2014 6319 views 45 likes

Sulphur dioxide from Kelut

Kelut volcano grounds air travel

14/02/2014 8528 views 66 likes

South Africa’s nitrogen dioxide

Satellites improve air quality monitoring in South Africa

22/08/2013 5873 views 40 likes

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