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European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)

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EUMETSAT is entrusted with the continued operation and exploitation of the existing Copernicus Sentinel-3 and -6 ocean-monitoring missions.

Mentioned as: European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)Narrative GeneralJul 25, 2021EUMETSAT Becomes The Largest Operator Of Sentinel Missions

EUMETSAT will operate, process, and disseminate data from the future Copernicus anthropogenic carbon dioxide-monitoring mission, CO2M.

Mentioned as: European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)Narrative GeneralJul 25, 2021EUMETSAT Becomes The Largest Operator Of Sentinel Missions

EUMETSAT will generate complementary products that provide highly accurate information about the Earth's climate, atmosphere, and oceans through the Sentinel missions.

Mentioned as: European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)Narrative GeneralJul 25, 2021EUMETSAT Becomes The Largest Operator Of Sentinel Missions

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

Mentioned as: EUMETSATOrg RelationshipJul 25, 2021EUMETSAT Becomes The Largest Operator Of Sentinel Missions

EUMETSAT’s third generation of geostationary and second generation of polar-orbiting satellites will carry atmosphere-monitoring Copernicus Sentinel instruments in their payloads.

Mentioned as: EUMETSATTechnical ProductJul 25, 2021EUMETSAT Becomes The Largest Operator Of Sentinel Missions

EUMETSAT's expertise as an operational meteorological satellite agency positions it to deliver benefits from the Copernicus missions to EU citizens.

Mentioned as: eumetsatTechnical ProductJul 25, 2021EUMETSAT Becomes The Largest Operator Of Sentinel Missions

The Contribution Agreement extends and strengthens EUMETSAT’s role in ocean and atmosphere-monitoring missions in the Earth Observation program.

Mentioned as: European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)Narrative GeneralJul 25, 2021EUMETSAT Becomes The Largest Operator Of Sentinel Missions

EUMETSAT will operate the upcoming Sentinel-4 and -5 atmosphere monitoring missions.

Mentioned as: European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)Narrative PlanJul 25, 2021EUMETSAT Becomes The Largest Operator Of Sentinel Missions

The Copernicus 2.0 agreement signed by the European Commission and EUMETSAT extends funding to the WEkEO Copernicus Data and Information Access Service for the next seven years.

Mentioned as: European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)Narrative GeneralJul 25, 2021EUMETSAT Becomes The Largest Operator Of Sentinel Missions

WEkEO is a joint service involving EUMETSAT, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Mercator Ocean International, and the European Environment Agency.

Mentioned as: EUMETSATTechnical ProductJul 25, 2021EUMETSAT Becomes The Largest Operator Of Sentinel Missions

EUMETSAT will invest more than €58 million between 2022 and 2027 to develop innovative approaches to translate its satellite data into services that provide benefits to users and society.

Mentioned as: European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)Org RelationshipJul 5, 2021Innovative Satellite Data Applications To Receive EUMETSAT Funding

The EUMETSAT Council approved a funding allocation to EUMETSAT’s eight Satellite Application Facilities (SAFs) to continue and expand their activities.

Mentioned as: EUMETSATTechnical ProductJul 5, 2021Innovative Satellite Data Applications To Receive EUMETSAT Funding

Instrument delays and COVID-19 prompted Eumetsat to shift the 2024 launch of MTG S1 and the 2025 launch of MTG-I2 to Ariane 6.

Mentioned as: European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)Narrative GeneralMay 27, 2021Adapting to changing climates: Q&A with Eumetsat’s Phil Evans

Eumetsat is exploring options to buy data directly from private-sector suppliers and plans a pilot to buy a data feed from a company operating a fleet of very smallsats.

Mentioned as: EumetsatOrg RelationshipMay 27, 2021Adapting to changing climates: Q&A with Eumetsat’s Phil Evans

Eumetsat operates its own LEO satellites and three Sentinel spacecraft for Copernicus from a Mission Control Center in Darmstadt, Germany.

Mentioned as: EumetsatOrg RelationshipMay 27, 2021Adapting to changing climates: Q&A with Eumetsat’s Phil Evans

Subject to a follow-up decision, the AWS constellation would be implemented with EUMETSAT according to the cooperation model established with Meteosat and MetOp satellites.

Mentioned as: EUMETSATOrg RelationshipMay 6, 2021ESA’s new Arctic Weather Satellite flies with a power system by RUAG Space

EUMETSAT signed a joint statement in December 2020 on the institutional exploitation of Ariane 6 and Vega C favoring a European preference for launchers on institutional missions in Europe.

Mentioned as: European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)Narrative GeneralMar 24, 2021EUMETSAT And Arianespace Update Agreements For Ariane 6 Launch Of Two Meteosat Third Generation Satellites

EUMETSAT confirmed Arianespace to launch the MTG-S1 sounder satellite and the MTG-I2 imager satellite using Ariane 6.

Mentioned as: European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)Narrative GeneralMar 24, 2021EUMETSAT And Arianespace Update Agreements For Ariane 6 Launch Of Two Meteosat Third Generation Satellites

Under Dr Josef Aschbacher’s leadership, Europe developed an Earth observation programme that includes all Sentinel missions as part of the EU-led Copernicus programme, all meteorological missions for EUMETSAT, and the Earth Explorer, Scout, and phi-sat missions developed for the ESA Member States.

Mentioned as: EUMETSATOrg RelationshipMar 5, 2021ESA Council appoints Josef Aschbacher as next ESA Director General

Phil Evans led the UK delegation to EUMETSAT during his role at the UK Met Office.

Mentioned as: EUMETSATOrg RelationshipJan 5, 2021New Director General @ EUMETSAT
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