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News - Events and Proceedings
Celebrating ESA’s first small satellite with science success
Scientists and data users gathered at a special workshop to celebrate the end of PROBA-1’s CHRIS sensor and discuss the results of this overachieving mission.
News - Thematic area articles
Space helps monitor Earth’s changing biosphere
Earth’s biosphere is continually changing. Through its pioneering Earth observation missions, ESA is making critical contributions to monitor these changes and their impacts on Earth’s water and carbon cycles.
News - Infographics
PROBA-1 - From technology demonstration to long-term Earth observation
Learn about ESA's PROBA-1 (Project for On-Board Autonomy) mission in our new infographic.
News - Infographics
An overview of ESA's Third Party Missions programme
ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of almost 50 satellite missions, which are owned by organisations around the world. ESA has agreements with these organisations to acquire, process, and distribute data from their missions
Mission - Third Party Missions
PROBA-1
PROBA-1 is a technology demonstration satellite that later became an operational Earth observation mission.
Activity - Instrument characterisation and algorithm studies
ESA satellites and instruments calibration landing page
ESA satellites and instruments calibration landing page.
Campaign
SPARC
ESA's SPectra bARrax Campaign (SPARC) activity was part of the preparatory study for a proposed ESA Earth Explorer mission called SPECTRA. The objective was to collect a CHRIS/PROBA reference dataset for SPECTRA-related studies.
Document - Proceedings
1st MSG RAO Workshop
Proceedings of the workshop organised by ESA and EUMETSAT held in CNR of Bologna, Italy in May 2000.
Event - Workshop
4th CHRIS PROBA Workshop
Workshop on the treatment of Compact High Resolution Images Spectrometer (CHRIS) data.
Event - Workshop
3rd CHRIS PROBA Workshop
This 2005 workshop was on the treatment of Compact High Resolution Images Spectrometer (CHRIS) data.
Event - Workshop
2nd CHRIS PROBA Workshop
This 2004 workshop was on the treatment of Compact High Resolution Images Spectrometer (CHRIS) data.
Document - Proceedings
3rd-MSG-RAO-Workshop.pdf
Proceedings of the 3rd MSG RAO Workshop held on 5 June 2006 in Helsinki, Finland
Document - Proceedings
Advances-in-Atmospheric-Science-and-Applications.pdf
Proceedings in Advances in Atmospheric Science and Applications held in 18-22 June 2012 in Bruges, Belgium.
Document - Proceedings
2nd-MSG-RAO-Workshop.pdf
Proceedings of the 2nd MSG RAO Workshop, held on 9-10 September 2004 in Salzburg, Austria
Document - General Reference
The MSG System - consisting of a Space Segment and a Ground Segment, designed to provide data, based on a series of three satellites called MSG-1, -2 and -3
This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 111.
Document - General Reference
The In-Orbit Commissioning of MSG-1
This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 114.
Document - General Reference
ESA-Achievements-More-than-thirty-years-of-pioneering-space-activity.pdf
This volume gives a general overview of ESA's activities and programmes by analyzing the single missions where it is involved.
Document - General Reference
Meteosat-Second-Generation-The-Satellite-Development.pdf
This publication provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the MSG programme, the mission objectives, the design and development of the MSG spacecraft.
Document - General Reference
Meteosat-Second-Generation.pdf
This flyer summarises in short the aims, applications and technology of the MSG mission.
Document - General Reference
Meteosat-Second-Generation-Becomes-Operational.pdf
This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 119.