Alain Ratier, 53, takes over as Director-General of EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, on 1 August 2011

The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, EUMETSAT, holds the main celebratory event for its 25th anniversary at its headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany, on 28 July

EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, held its 72nd Council meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 28-29 June

The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, EUMETSAT, celebrated its 25th anniversary on 19 June

The cornerstone of EUMETSAT’s New Infrastructure Building (NIB) was laid during a ceremony on 24 March

Following the approval of Belgium, all 26 EUMETSAT Member States have now firmly committed to the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) programme

NOAA successfully completed the first acquisition of data from EUMETSAT’s Metop-A satellite at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, on 19 January 2011.

EUMETSAT has extended the existing coverage of direct readout of data from the instruments on board its Metop polar-orbiting satellite via the Advanced High Resolution Picture Transmission (AHRPT) system, making the data available to more users globally

EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, held its 71st Council meeting in Darmstadt, Germany, on 30 November and 1 December

The ground was broken on 13 October for EUMETSAT’s New Infrastructure Building (NIB)