The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) is an intergovernmental organization that operates meteorological satellites to monitor weather and climate from space. It provides data to National Meteorological Services in its member states and users worldwide. EUMETSAT also operates several Copernicus missions on behalf of the European Union. Key partners include the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Commission, and National Meteorological Services.
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Metop-C has a mass of 4,084 kg and was built by Airbus Defence and Space for the European weather agency Eumetsat.
NOAA-20 provides complementary observations from a mid-afternoon orbit as part of the data-sharing cooperation with Eumetsat.
Airbus Defence and Space built Metop-C for the European meteorological organization EUMETSAT.
Thales Alenia Space is the prime contractor on an amended 2010 contract with the European Space Agency and Eumetsat for six Meteosat Third Generation geostationary satellites.
Eumetsat has two second-generation MetOp satellites, Metop-SG A1 and Metop-SG B1, planned to launch on Soyuz rockets between 2021 and 2023.
Sentinel-4 and Sentinel-5 missions will be carried on weather satellites operated by EUMETSAT.