ESA - MetOp - Archive

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Medicane Jolina from MSG

Getting to the core of a medicane

27/03/2026 4851 views 45 likes

MetOp-SG-A1 in the cleanroom

Weather, climate and air quality missions on display

08/04/2025 2827 views 44 likes

Nord Stream pipe lines

Nord Stream methane leak far bigger than estimated

05/03/2025 7771 views 48 likes

MetOp Second Generation

First MetOp Second Generation satellite to launch in August

28/01/2025 5564 views 43 likes

MetOp-SG-A1 complete

First all-new MetOp complete and sibling in testing

10/10/2024 3325 views 40 likes

Sentinel-5 in all its glory

Air-quality mission ready to join its host weather satellite

06/06/2024 2611 views 9 likes

Two MetOp-SG satellites on show

MetOp Second Generation weather satellite pair show off

15/11/2023 5713 views 77 likes

Industrial emissions of carbon dioxide fuel our warming climate

Providing the facts to help Europe achieve 55%

16/09/2020 4132 views 48 likes

MetOp Second Generation

Enabling & Support

Testing time for MetOp Second Generation

25/11/2019 7391 views 57 likes

Sea roughness key to carbon flux

Can oceans turn the tide on the climate crisis?

08/10/2019 11955 views 217 likes

Cloud-free Europe

New observations for the new economy

08/03/2019 10894 views 90 likes

From pole to pole

Enabling & Support

Handing over MetOp-C

12/11/2018 4860 views 46 likes

MetOp-C liftoff

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

07/11/2018 7439 views 86 likes

MetOp-C in launch tower

MetOp-C ready for big day

05/11/2018 6970 views 69 likes

Flight Operations Director Hervé Côme at ESOC

Enabling & Support

Counting down to MetOp-C

31/10/2018 5093 views 56 likes

Watering crops

How much water is used for irrigation?

11/09/2018 9325 views 52 likes

MetOp-C arrives at Cayenne

MetOp-C launch campaign kicks off

09/07/2018 6435 views 88 likes

Earth seen by Meteosat

Shared vision strengthens Europe’s space strategy

08/11/2017 4999 views 46 likes

Receded shoreline

Italy’s drought seen from space

05/09/2017 15745 views 129 likes

Surfing for science

29/07/2015 8164 views 54 likes

MetOp Second Generation

Europe secures new generation of weather satellites

16/10/2014 13656 views 66 likes

Bardarbunga plume

Bardarbunga belches

05/09/2014 13534 views 103 likes

Signature MetOp Second Generation

Taking weather forecasting into the future

20/05/2014 6744 views 45 likes

Sulphur dioxide from Kelut

Kelut volcano grounds air travel

14/02/2014 8804 views 66 likes

South Africa’s nitrogen dioxide

Satellites improve air quality monitoring in South Africa

22/08/2013 6362 views 40 likes

Is the ozone layer on the road to recovery?

08/02/2013 42596 views 125 likes

Hurricane Sandy as seen by MetOp-A

MetOp-A captures Hurricane Sandy

30/10/2012 1556 views 2 likes

MetOp-B first data

Metop-B delivers first data from polar orbit

28/09/2012 3353 views 2 likes

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

21/09/2012 1862 views 2 likes

MetOp-B launch

Europe’s second polar-orbiting weather satellite is aloft

17/09/2012 2706 views 0 likes

Metop-B launch

Live: launch of MetOp-B

17/09/2012 1651 views 0 likes

Last view of MetOp-B

Last look at weather satellite

11/09/2012 2459 views 2 likes

Preparing for MetOp

Enabling & Support

Weather satellite to be delivered in orbit to Eumetsat

07/09/2012 2015 views 0 likes

Sulphur dioxide from Grímsvötn

Smelling Grímsvötn

05/09/2012 2698 views 4 likes

MetOp

New launch date confirmed for Metop-B

28/06/2012 1716 views 0 likes

Over 30 years of global soil moisture observations for clim…

19/06/2012 14740 views 8 likes

MetOp in orbit

MetOp-B launch postponed

27/04/2012 1697 views 0 likes

Preparing for MetOp

Enabling & Support

MetOp-B mission control team image gallery

24/04/2012 1368 views 0 likes

MetOp-B being readied for testing

Europe’s next weather satellite gears up for launch

20/03/2012 2183 views 0 likes

MetOp-B

Clear forecast for weather-monitoring mission

08/11/2011 2062 views 0 likes

ESA keeps watch on weather

29/09/2011 1196 views 0 likes

Satellite observations show potential to improve ash cloud …

26/05/2011 2364 views 0 likes

Predicted path of volcanic ash

Satellites monitor Icelandic ash plume

23/05/2011 7289 views 2 likes

MetOp

ESA takes first steps towards MetOp Second Generation

09/03/2011 4115 views 2 likes

Enabling & Support

MetOp-B module passes crucial vacuum test

03/08/2010 2209 views 0 likes

MetOp-B PLM lowered into LSS

Enabling & Support

MetOp-B is ESA test centre’s latest task of busy year

29/06/2010 1658 views 0 likes

ESA Euronews: Tomorrow’s weather

16/04/2010 932 views 0 likes

Ammonia distributions over Europe

Satellite sensor maps global atmospheric ammonia emissions

07/07/2009 6816 views 27 likes

MetOp-A in orbit

MetOp-A takes up service

16/05/2007 2398 views 0 likes

Total ozone measured by GOME-2

First ozone and nitrogen dioxide measurements from MetOp-A

14/03/2007 1605 views 1 likes

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