Latest news and features Discover the latest news and feature articles Apply Refine results Type Article News Blog Post Features Categories Satellites Atmospheric composition Climate Ocean Weather Data Education Organisation Metop Sentinel Jason Features - All Tags Cooperation International Satellite Applications Facility (SAF) SLSTR Sentinel-6 Human Resources Corporate Copernicus early-career Events Hackathon Metop-C Polarstern Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Women Year of Weather Features Metop-A Metop-B Climate WEKEO Polar Features article Date 2020 Date February March April May June July August September October November December SHOW ALL 58 results News 8 December 2020 Second WEkEO online webinar coming soon Discover what makes WEkEO unique in a series of webinars. News 25 November 2020 "Introduction to the WEkEO DIAS” online webinar coming soon Discover what makes WEkEO unique in a series of webinars. News 20 November 2020 How the EUMETSAT team have been getting ready for launch and operations Gareth Williams, Sentinel-6 System & Operations Preparation Manager discusses pre-launch activities. Features Ready to launch this weekend: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich The satellite is scheduled for launch on 21 November 2020. News 18 November 2020 Satellite launch holds extra meaning for outgoing EUMETSAT DG Satellite launch holds special poignancy for EUMETSAT DG. Features Branching out into the world of strategy and international relations at EUMETSAT Rachel, an astrophysics student currently in her third year of university, interned with us over the last few months. News 4 November 2020 Sentinel-6 radio occultation mission Today we’d like to introduce you to one more member of the EUMETSAT Sentinel-6 mission team, Axel von Engeln, who is a Remote Sensing Scientist for Radio Occultation. News 4 November 2020 Latest update on the launch of Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich NASA has released the following information about the launch of Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, which was planned for launch on 10 November, 2020. News 2 November 2020 Sentinel-6: Webinars this week Ahead of the launch of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, EUMETSAT is involved in a series of live webinars about sea-level rise monitoring from space. News 28 October 2020 Meet the Sentinel-6 team Getting the ground segment preparations ready News 23 October 2020 Sentinel-6 – Meet the team behind the mission Getting the inside view on Copernicus Sentinel-6 News 21 October 2020 Call for abstracts Second Operational Satellite Oceanography Symposium, 25-27 May 2021 News 20 October 2020 Meet the Sentinel-6 Team In the run-up to the launch of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich on 10 November 2020, we would like to introduce you to some of the people involved in the mission. News 9 October 2020 EUMETSAT’s future focus – a new era approaches In a time of changing weather patterns and a changing climate, the need for more and accurate information about planet Earth is acute. News 25 September 2020 Webinar on Earth observation in Africa. Webinar on Earth observation in Africa. Features Tracking desert locusts with satellite services This year brought a locust crisis to eastern Africa, threatening food supplies in an already troubled time. Features Smoke from exceptional California wildfires reaches Europe Satellite observations monitor the transport of emissions. Features Monitoring the ocean and fisheries using Earth observation data In our "Day to Day" series of podcasts, we discuss how Earth observation data benefits our lives in different ways. Features Exploring data services at EUMETSAT We talked (part remotely/part at HQ) with Joana Miguens about her interesting role, continuing our Inside EUMETSAT series. News 7 September 2020 Preparing to operate Copernicus Sentinel-6 Nothing beats the excitement of preparing for a satellite launch for workers at Europe’s meteorological satellite agency, EUMETSAT. Features Keeping an eye on air turbulence from space For many travellers, air turbulence is often a cause of much concern and in some cases, fear. News 10 August 2020 An “experiment” 28 years ago proves its worth The “most successful ocean experiment of all time” began 28 years ago today, with the launch of the first joint European-US satellite designed to map ocean surface topography – TOPEX/Poseidon. News 6 August 2020 Passing of an Earth science champion Dr Michael Freilich, the former Director of NASA’s Earth Science Division, passed away on 5 August. News 14 July 2020 Copernicus Data User Uptake 2019 Report published Thousands of people – business owners, researchers, educators and private individuals – are diving in to the ever-growing ocean of satellite data and products made available by EUMETSAT, a new report has shown. News 3 July 2020 Join the first WEkEO online training workshop and discover more about the platform The WEkEO V1 cloud platform provides a gateway to a huge portfolio of Copernicus service and Sentinel satellite data. News 24 June 2020 Online WEkEO demo on 2 July Find out how to access freely available Copernicus environmental data by joining an online demo for the WEkEO platform. News 18 June 2020 User workshop on Satellite Atmospheric Composition An interactive user workshop on Satellite Atmospheric Composition, organised by EUMETSAT News 17 June 2020 WEKEO V1: Connect directly to Copernicus data We are pleased to announce that the WEkEO VI version is now available and offers a range of improvements and new functionalities. Features Insight into Jasmin Vural’s life as a fellow Delving further into our continuing series on fellowships, we talked to Jasmin Vural, who is almost done with hers. News 15 June 2020 Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich undergoes rigorous testing Once the state-of-the-art Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite launches in November, it will collect the most accurate data yet on sea level — a key indicator of how Earth's warming climate is affecting the oceans, weather and coastlines. Features Vasileios Barlakas shares his experience as a fellow with us Continuing our series on fellowships we talked to Vasileios, who is currently halfway through his. News 3 June 2020 16th International Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Space Jointly organised by EUMETSAT, ESA, the ECMWF, and the European Commission’s Copernicus Programme, the first, virtual IWGGMS is taking place as planned on 02 - 05 June. Features The role of MOSAiC in EUMETSAT OSI SAF development We've published several posts about the MOSAiC expedition over the last six months, featuring the reports of a group of meteorology students tracking its progress. News 12 May 2020 EUMETSAT redistributes novel real-time wind data Today, EUMETSAT started to make novel observations about the vertical distribution of wind available to national meteorological services for use in weather forecasting. Features Interning at EUMETSAT A new episode of our Inside EUMETSAT series – get to know us a little better by finding out what everybody does here. Features Introducing the Alfred Wegener Institute and MOSAiC Expedition Right now, the largest polar expedition in history is taking place and a group of students from Germany want to make sure you don’t miss out on any of the Arctic action. Load More
