Poster art of the space era

A colourful selection of posters and calendars illustrating the past three decades of ESA missions and programmes, and highlighting activities at ESOC, the European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany.

This gallery was selected from archives kept at ESOC and from a collection maintained by Klaus Lenhart, who retired from the Centre in 2000 after 37 years.

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Caption:

ESA 'Four Seasons' calendar 1982

Credits:

ESA

ID number:

SEMUTD161YF

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Description

A calendar highlighting Earth's four seasons as seen by ESA's Meteosat, most likely Meteosat-1, launched 23 November 1977. Placed in geostationary orbit at 0 degrees longitude, Meteosat-1 provided a permanent field of view over most of Europe, the whole of Africa, the Middle East and the eastern half of South America - in total over 100 countries.

30 years of Meteosat in pictures

30 years of Meteosat

Meteosat Second Generation (MSG)

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