News & Features Apply Refine results Type Article News Categories Organisation Tags Corporate Cooperation Press Release Date 2016 Date December SHOW ALL 1 result News 8 December 2016 EUMETSAT extends Metop-A lifetime The EUMETSAT Council agreed that the ageing, but still healthy, Metop-A satellite will be exploited on a “drifting” orbit from June 2017 onwards, in order to extend its useful lifetime from 2019 to 2022.