At its 85th session, the EUMETSAT Council endorsed a new strategy establishing the framework for EUMETSAT activities in the next decade.

EUMETSAT’s Director-General, Alain Ratier, and Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of CNES, signed a cooperation agreement on the ARGOS Data Collection System to be included in the payload of the Metop-SG satellites of the EUMETSAT Polar System of Second Generation (EPS-SG).

EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, will celebrate its 30th anniversary on 27 June, with the participation of high level officials from its 30 Member States and the World Meteorological Organisation, the European Union, the European Space Agency and other international partners.

From 5 to 10 June 2016, EUMETSAT will be hosting the 44th plenary session of the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS) in Biot, France.

At the fourth ‘European Space Solutions’ conference opening today in The Hague, Netherlands, under the Dutch EU Presidency, EUMETSAT and Mercator Ocean will host an event on 1 June on “Copernicus: Creating Value for our oceans”.

More than 130 meteorological experts, scientists and researchers will meet in Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France, on 11-15 April, for the fourth IASI conference jointly organised by EUMETSAT and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES).

Following the successful completion of the Launch and Early Operations Phase of the Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite by ESOC, EUMETSAT will start on Monday, 22 February, to support in-orbit commissioning activities.

After today’s successful launch of Sentinel-3A, EUMETSAT is preparing to exploit the Copernicus satellite on behalf of the European Union, in cooperation with ESA.