Copernicus Sentinel-6B entered operational service on 30 October 2026, ensuring that a satellite record of global sea level ...

In August, the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer - New Generation (IASI-NG) will take to the skies on board the Metop Second Generation A1 (Metop-SGA1) satellite. This instrument will ...

EUMETSAT currently operates three satellites from the Meteosat Second Generation, Meteosat-9, -10 and -11 in geostationary orbit (36,000km) over Europe, Africa and part of the Indian Ocean. It also ...

In-fa is a tropical cyclone in the western North Pacific that was upgraded on 28 October to a super typhoon by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Moving west at 10 knots, the super typhoon has maximum ...

EUMETSAT’s aim is to make the data available as quickly and easily as possible. Listed below are the ways we make EUMETSAT data available. EUMETCast transmits a stream of near-real-time data to user ...

This week’s image is a view of smoke plumes and haze from fires in Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. This week’s image shows Tropical Storm Fay moving west across the Atlantic Ocean. This week’s ...

Utilising specialist expertise from the Member States, Satellite Application Facilities (SAFs) are dedicated centres of excellence for processing satellite data. The H SAF generates and archives ...

Following the successful first edition of the EUMETSAT Foresight Workshop in October 2025, we are pleased to announce the Second EUMETSAT Foresight Workshop, which will take place on 19–20 October ...

The authors of a recent EUMETSAT case study say this year's extreme El Niño conditions may have partly amplified the hot, dry conditions seen across much of Europe in 2026. “El Niño and its cold ...

Commands from the Mission Control Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, are sent via antennas at our ground stations to the satellites. Telemetry, which is information from the satellites, is sent from the ...

Lifted into space from the Guiana Space Centre by an Ariane 6 launcher on Tuesday 12 August 2025, the IASI-NG instrument (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer-New Generation) flying on the ...

The satellite, its instruments and the ground-based infrastructure required to process images are currently undergoing testing, calibration, and validation. When these crucial activities have been ...