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Press Release
4 February 2011
NOAA successfully completed the first acquisition of data from EUMETSAT’s Metop-A satellite at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, on 19 January 2011.
The EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) ground station is located on Spitsbergen, Svalbard.
The EPS-SG ground segment will support the ground functions required to meet the EPS-SG missions objectives.
The EUMETSAT Mission Control Centres (MCC) are responsible for the safe operations of all our satellites.
30 November 2018
Europe’s most modern satellite control centre has been unveiled at the Darmstadt headquarters of EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites.
The LSA SAF exploits remotely-sensed data on land, land-atmosphere interactions and biosphere applications.