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April 11, 2012

Taking a virtual trip on the research ship Polarstern

Today (11 April) EUMETSAT’s international training project EUMETrain starts tracking the movements of the German research icebreaker Polarstern. The ship will be cruising from Punta Arenas (Chile) to Bremerhaven (arriving 16 May), taking continuous measurements of atmospheric and marine properties, plus energy and material fluxes between ocean and atmosphere.

April 5, 2012

Solar array added to Metop-B

The solar array has been added to Metop-B and has successfully passed performance tests.

April 3, 2012

Monitoring soil moisture from space

While weather and environmental services in some parts of Europe have recently issued drought warnings, our Metop satellite has been monitoring soil moisture around the globe.

March 30, 2012

Space debris and the risks to satellites

One definition of the word space is empty – but the space above the Earth is anything but empty. So is there room up there for any number of satellites to orbit the world safely? No, not according to our experts, who recently had to move one of our satellites to avoid a collision.

March 23, 2012

Using satellite data to improve numerical weather prediction

This year two new weather satellites will be launched by EUMETSAT. They aim to provide even more data to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts, especially through numerical weather prediction (NWP) which underpins the weather forecasts provided by National Meteorological Services.

March 22, 2012

Metop-B passes launch site health checks

The Metop-B satellite has successfully passed its health check confirming it is functioning well following the transport to launch site.

March 9, 2012

Metop-B arrives at launch site

Metop-B, which is due to be launched on 23 May, safely arrived at its launch site this week. The polar-orbiting satellite was transported to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in an Antonov cargo plane, after being shipped from the Astrium factory in Toulouse, France.

February 23, 2012

Oman Centre of Excellence celebrates six years

The meteorological training centre in Oman celebrates its sixth anniversary this year. The Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Muscat trains scientists from Middle East countries how to understand and use satellite data.

February 22, 2012

Changes to our website

We are currently undertaking a review of the EUMETSAT website. Over the coming months, during Phase 1, you may notice some minor changes to our content.

February 15, 2012

Successful milestone test of the MSG-3 satellite

MSG-3 has passed its final System Verification Test (SVT), prior to launch this summer.

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