News & Features Apply Refine results Type Article News Categories Satellites Atmospheric composition Climate Ocean Organisation Metop Sentinel Tags AMSU Cooperation Launch Atmosphere Corporate Copernicus Metop Climate Date 2018 Date July November SHOW ALL 5 results News 29 November 2018 European Union’s Copernicus programme is planning a monitoring capacity for anthropogenic CO2 emissions Helping countries verify their CO2 emission reductions News 28 November 2018 EUMETSAT takes over operations of Sentinel-3B satellite As of today, EUMETSAT has responsibility for the full dual spacecraft operations of Sentinel-3A and 3B and the marine data production. In the coming few weeks, the team will complete those commissioning activities which could only be performed in the nominal orbital configuration and will ramp up the product releases. News 19 November 2018 US, European teams welcome Metop-C’s first AMSU image The first science data from the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU-A) on board Metop-C has been received News 4 July 2018 Preparing for launch! Metop-C, the third and final satellite in a series that has made an unparalleled impact on weather forecast accuracy, has arrived in Kourou, French Guiana, to be prepared for launch. News 4 July 2018 Space agencies cooperate to meet global meteorological Earth observation needs The Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites has agreed a framework for assessing its contributions of satellite observations to the WMO’s plans for a global integrated system of Earth observation.