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Personnel from Thales Alenia Space (TAS) are pictured in this photo.

MTG-I2 is part of the MTG constellation – a cutting-edge weather mission.

SCAPE suits are is needed for protection when working with propellants.

Propellent loading takes place in the Hazardous Processing Facility at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

The Meteosat Third Generation-Imager2 (MTG-I2) satellite being transferred to the Hazardous Processing Facility.

The satellite will improve data for weather forecasts in Europe and in North Africa.

MTG-I2 is part of the MTG constellation – a cutting-edge weather mission based on the long-standing partnership between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Eumetsat.

The images are false-colour and were created using Sentinel-2’s near-infrared channel.

Satellite images over southeast Norway show the reduced water levels along the country’s longest river, the Glomma.

Galileo constellation: First and Second generation

Galileo Second Generation compatibility tests at Thales Alenia Space

This latest inspection confirmed that everything is nominal before the hazardous propellant loading phase begins during the week 10-14 August.

The Meteosat Third Generation-Imager2 (MTG-I2) satellite has been inspected by teams from the European Space Agency (ESA) and Thales Alenia Space (TAS).

These Copernicus Sentinel-2 images over the Danube north of Budapest show how the river’s level has fallen to a record low in Hungary due to a severe drought in central Europe.

MTG-I2 will be in orbit around Earth for at least the next eight-and-a-half years.

MTG-I2 will capture data of lightning, atmosphere, clouds and developing storms in unprecedented detail.

Pictured here during a team-building workshop in April.

Seven members of ESA’s MTG team at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

Members of ESA’s MTG team at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

Behind the scenes a team of experts has been inspecting every hinge, bolt and surface

Relative severity is a percentage loss relative to the biomass measured before disturbance or harvest.

Absolute severity measures the loss of above-ground biomass after a disturbance, such as wind, fire or insect damage, or after tree harvesting.

Smoke plume from Greek wildfires seen by Sentinel-3

Greece continues to battle wildfires

Sentinel-3 animated patch

MetOp-SG satellites

MetOp Second Generation B-type satellite

FLEX for insights into photosynthesis and plant health

Global flood map over South America

Surface water over South America from HydroGNSS

This colourful radar image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission features New Orleans and the delta of the Mississippi River, one the largest rivers in North America.

ESA/JRC International Summer School on GNSS 2026

Women in PNT dinner at the ESA/JRC Summer School on GNSS

Working together at the ESA/JRC International Summer School on GNSS

Collaborating at the ESA/JRC Summer School on GNSS

Hands-on workshop at the ESA/JRC Summer School on GNSS

Lecturers and guests at the ESA/JRC Summer School on GNSS

Students at the ESA/JRC Summer School on GNSS

ESA/JRC International Summer School on GNSS 2026

Pacific Ocean salinity June 2026

Freshwater pool of the 2026 El Niño

The data was captured by radar instruments on the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites.

This image based on data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, captured on 26 July, shows the aerosol index over Spain and France, after days of wildfire spread through dry countryside.

MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 lift off on Ariane 6

MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 lift off on Ariane 6

Europe’s new weather satellite launches

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, captured on 26 July, shows a zoomed-in view over ESA's Cebreros ground station, which lies within the areas heavily affected by the wildfires in Spain.

Raging wildfires near Madrid, Spain

These images by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, captured on 26 July, show the area to the west of Bordeaux, France, where wildfires continue to burn countryside, fanned by wind and heatwave conditions.

Burned areas near Bordeaux, France

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