European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)

EUMETSAT will become the largest operator of the Copernicus program’s Sentinel satellite missions under an agreement signed with the European Commission.

Eumetsat plans to launch each of the three MTG satellites with a co-passenger satellite.

Before nations report progress under the Paris agreement in 2023, space and environmental agencies plan to launch MicroCarb led by CNES; EUMETSAT’s Metop Second Generation A; the Methane Remote Sensing Lidar Mission, a joint project of DLR and CNES; and NASA’s GeoCarb.