EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, held its 67th Council meeting in Darmstadt, Germany, on 30 June and 1 July

The Czech Republic today signed the accession agreement to become a full Member State of EUMETSAT

Today’s meeting of the European Space Council, which was attended by the EUMETSAT Director-General, Dr. Lars Prahm, recognised the importance space makes to innovation and competitiveness in the context of the European Plan for Innovation and the European Economic Recovery Plan

Today marks the first anniversary of the beginning of the Rapid Scanning Service (RSS) on EUMETSAT’s Meteosat-8 geostationary weather satellite, which for one year now has been successfully delivering this vital service in support of Nowcasting of severe weather events

Today, the inauguration ceremony took place of a reception station recently installed in Ethopia’s capital to supply the African Union Commission (AUC) with real-time data, images and products from EUMETSAT satellites and from other data providers through EUMETCast, EUMETSAT’s data dissemination system

The Advanced High Resolution Picture Transmission (AHRPT) system on EUMETSAT’s Metop-A polar-orbiting satellite is operational again following a successful two-month trial in October-November

The NOAA N’ polar-orbiting satellite launched at 5:22 EST (11:22 CET) carries EUMETSAT’s Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS), which measures atmospheric water vapour

Latvia today signed the accession agreement to become a full Member State of EUMETSAT