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MetOp Second Generation

Enabling & Support

Testing time for MetOp Second Generation

25/11/2019 6349 views 57 likes

Surviving the shaker brings better weather forecasting a st…

02/07/2019 2619 views 37 likes

Cloud-free Europe

New observations for the new economy

08/03/2019 10201 views 88 likes

From pole to pole

Enabling & Support

Handing over MetOp-C

12/11/2018 4332 views 44 likes

MetOp-C liftoff

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

07/11/2018 6847 views 85 likes

MetOp-C in launch tower

MetOp-C ready for big day

05/11/2018 6351 views 68 likes

Flight Operations Director Hervé Côme at ESOC

Enabling & Support

Counting down to MetOp-C

31/10/2018 4738 views 55 likes

MetOp-C arrives at Cayenne

MetOp-C launch campaign kicks off

09/07/2018 6055 views 87 likes

Meteosat-1 launch

Forty years of Meteosat

22/11/2017 6132 views 112 likes

Earth seen by Meteosat

Shared vision strengthens Europe’s space strategy

08/11/2017 4359 views 45 likes

MSG-4 in orbit

ESA hands over control of the MSG-4 weather satellite

27/07/2015 5694 views 61 likes

MSG-4 liftoff

Europe’s MSG-4 weather satellite delivered into orbit

15/07/2015 13507 views 73 likes

Ariane flight VA224 on the launchpad

Enabling & Support

MSG-4 launch timeline

14/07/2015 6704 views 36 likes

Team training

Enabling & Support

ESA teams ready for Europe’s next weather satellite

09/07/2015 5791 views 44 likes

MetOp Second Generation

Europe secures new generation of weather satellites

16/10/2014 12327 views 66 likes

Bardarbunga plume

Bardarbunga belches

05/09/2014 13315 views 103 likes

Signature MetOp Second Generation

Taking weather forecasting into the future

20/05/2014 6305 views 45 likes

Sulphur dioxide from Kelut

Kelut volcano grounds air travel

14/02/2014 8513 views 66 likes

South Africa’s nitrogen dioxide

Satellites improve air quality monitoring in South Africa

22/08/2013 5852 views 40 likes

Is the ozone layer on the road to recovery?

08/02/2013 41228 views 125 likes

Meteosat Third Generation

Contract signed for Meteosat Third Generation lightning ins…

07/02/2013 4115 views 23 likes

MTG agreement signed at Ministerial meeting

Meteosat Third Generation agreement signed at Ministerial m…

21/11/2012 4564 views 5 likes

Hurricane Sandy as seen by MetOp-A

MetOp-A captures Hurricane Sandy

30/10/2012 1430 views 2 likes

MetOp-B first data

Metop-B delivers first data from polar orbit

28/09/2012 2842 views 2 likes

ESA hands over control of the Metop-B weather satellite to …

21/09/2012 1542 views 2 likes

MetOp-B launch

Europe’s second polar-orbiting weather satellite is aloft

17/09/2012 2450 views 0 likes

Metop-B launch

Live: launch of MetOp-B

17/09/2012 1448 views 0 likes

Last view of MetOp-B

Last look at weather satellite

11/09/2012 2096 views 2 likes

Preparing for MetOp

Enabling & Support

Weather satellite to be delivered in orbit to Eumetsat

07/09/2012 1703 views 0 likes

Sulphur dioxide from Grímsvötn

Smelling Grímsvötn

05/09/2012 2333 views 4 likes

Earth and Moon

Peek-a-blue Moon

03/09/2012 3609 views 16 likes

MSG-3 first image

MSG-3, Europe’s latest weather satellite, delivers first im…

07/08/2012 17658 views 16 likes

MSG enters orbit

ESA hands over weather satellite for operations

16/07/2012 1675 views 0 likes

MSG-3 launch

MSG-3 set to ensure quality of Europe’s weather service fro…

06/07/2012 2582 views 2 likes

MSG-3 ready for encapsulation in fairing

Watch online: MSG-3 launch

04/07/2012 1395 views 0 likes

ESOC control room

Enabling & Support

ESA’s mission control ready for MSG-3 launch

03/07/2012 2479 views 0 likes

MetOp

New launch date confirmed for Metop-B

28/06/2012 1394 views 0 likes

Over 30 years of global soil moisture observations for clim…

19/06/2012 13612 views 7 likes

MSG-3 preparations continue

Launch date of MSG-3 reset to 5 July 2012

12/06/2012 1575 views 1 likes

MetOp in orbit

MetOp-B launch postponed

27/04/2012 1353 views 0 likes

Preparing for MetOp

Enabling & Support

MetOp-B mission control team image gallery

24/04/2012 1100 views 0 likes

MetOp-B being readied for testing

Europe’s next weather satellite gears up for launch

20/03/2012 1706 views 0 likes

MSG-3 In the cleanroom

MSG-3 satellite ready to continue weather-monitoring service

07/03/2012 1832 views 3 likes

Meteosat Third Generation

A new generation of meteorological satellites

24/02/2012 6514 views 2 likes

MSG enters orbit

Enabling & Support

MSG ground controllers plug into satellite for live test

07/02/2012 1770 views 1 likes

MetOp-B

Clear forecast for weather-monitoring mission

08/11/2011 1648 views 0 likes

ESA keeps watch on weather

29/09/2011 961 views 0 likes

MSG views one quarter of Earth

Eduspace website expanded and extended to Greece

28/09/2011 801 views 0 likes

NO2 over Europe monitored by GOME-2

Astrium to build ESA's Sentinel-4 atmospheric sensors

11/07/2011 2316 views 3 likes

Satellite observations show potential to improve ash cloud …

26/05/2011 2058 views 0 likes

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