Who we are

We are the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT).

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EUMETSAT member states

EUMETSAT is a user-governed operational organisation formed in 1986, which serves the needs of its member states.

Strategy

EUMETSAT’s vision is to be the leading user-driven operational agency in Europe for Earth observation satellite programmes that fulfil the objectives of its Convention.

Governance

The Council is the supreme decision-making body of EUMETSAT to which the Director-General reports, as the Chief Executive Officer.

Our core values

EUMETSAT’s core values define what we believe to be important in the workplace

Management

The EUMETSAT matrix organisation captures all the expertise required to deliver programmes agreed by the Council.

Legal Framework

Information on EUMETSAT Legal Framework.

EUMETSAT is the European operational satellite agency for monitoring weather, climate and the environment from space.

Last Updated

15 February 2023

Published on

19 March 2020

We are an intergovernmental organisation based in Darmstadt, Germany, currently with 30 Member States. EUMETSAT operates the geostationary satellites Meteosat -10, and -11 over Europe and Africa, and Meteosat-9 over the Indian Ocean.

We also operate two Metop polar-orbiting satellites as part of the Initial Joint Polar System (IJPS) shared with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

EUMETSAT is also a partner in the cooperative sea level monitoring Jason missions (Jason-3 and Jason-CS/Sentinel-6) involving Europe and the United States.

The data and products from EUMETSAT's satellites are vital to weather forecasting and make a significant contribution to the monitoring of the environment and climate change.

The European Union has entrusted EUMETSAT with exploiting the four Sentinel missions of the Copernicus space component dedicated to the monitoring of atmosphere, ocean and climate on its behalf. EUMETSAT carries out these tasks in cooperation with ESA and already exploits the Sentinel-3 marine mission.

EUMETSAT has established cooperation with operators of Earth observation satellites from Europe and China, India, Japan, South Korea and the United States. The cooperation with Russia was suspended in March 2022.