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34 results for 'EPS-SG'

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27 November 2013

EUMETSAT Council prepares the approval of the EPS-SG programme

The 79th meeting of the EUMETSAT Council took place in Darmstadt, Germany, on 26 November.

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28 November 2014

EUMETSAT Council makes progress towards EPS-SG programme approval

The 82nd meeting of the EUMETSAT Council took place in Darmstadt, Germany, on 26 November.

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7 July 2014

The EUMETSAT Council approves key MTG ground segment contracts

The 80th meeting of the EUMETSAT Council took place on 1 July in Helsinki, Finland, upon invitation of the outgoing Chairman, Prof Petteri Taalas of Finland.

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1 February 2012

Special EUMETSAT Council achieves progress with EPS-SG

The special EUMETSAT Council meeting on 30-31 January recorded progress in the approval process for the EUMETSAT Polar System Second Generation (EPS-SG) Preparatory Programme, with the sum of contributions increasing from nearly 55 per cent to 83 per cent and 18 of the 27 EUMETSAT Member States having firmly committed themselves to the programme.

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3 December 2015

Council takes steps to implement the EPS-SG and Jason-CS programmes

In the presence of Dr Stephen Volz, Assistant Administrator for NOAA Satellite and Information services, the EUMETSAT Council took important decisions for the implementation of the EPS-Second Generation (EPS-SG) and Jason-Continuity of Service (Jason-CS) programmes, both approved this summer and implemented in cooperation with the United States.

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29 June 2011

EUMETSAT Council approves SAF CDOP-2 and discusses EPS-SG Proposal

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

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16 November 2012

Council approves EPS-SG Preparatory Programme and extends Indian Ocean service

EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, held its 77th Council meeting in Darmstadt, Germany, on 15 November.

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5 October 2015

EUMETSAT and ESA sign cooperation agreement on Metop-SG satellites

Today, EUMETSAT and ESA signed a cooperation agreement that secures the development of the Metop Second Generation satellites which form the space segment of the EUMETSAT Polar System of Second Generation. The EPS-SG system will deliver vital meteorological observations from polar orbit in the 2021-2042 timeframe.

IMG - Signature of Cooperation agreement with ESA on Metop-SG

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28 June 2017

EUMETSAT extends Jason-2 operations

At its 87th session, the EUMETSAT Council approved the extension of Jason-2 operations and contracts required to deploy the EPS Second Generation (EPS-SG) system in the early 2020’s and improve access to EUMETSAT and Copernicus data.

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28 June 2016

EUMETSAT and CNES sign agreement on ARGOS receivers to fly on Metop-SG satellites

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).

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8 December 2015

EUMETSAT and CNES sign agreement for IASI-NG instruments

Yesterday, EUMETSAT’s Director-General, Alain Ratier, and Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of CNES, signed a cooperation agreement for the development of a new generation of Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometers (IASI-NG) to be flown on three successive Metop-SG A satellites of the EUMETSAT Polar System of Second Generation (EPS-SG) in the 2021-2040 timeframe.

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13 November 2019

Met services prepare for next-generation satellite systems

The upcoming deployment of two next-generation meteorological satellite systems will bring weather forecasting accuracy and climate monitoring into a new era, the head of Europe’s meteorological satellite agency said today.

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