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Discover the latest news on the European Space Agency's Earth Observation activities. Learn all about new data availability and how ESA's missions are performing.
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News - Scientific Highlights
News - Scientific Highlights
Metop: The power of three
Metop-A was launched in 2006 and Metop-B in 2012, and now it is time for Metop-C.
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News - General News
News - General News
Counting down to Metop-C
Teams at ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Germany have been training for months in preparation for next week's launch of Metop-C.
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News - General News
News - General News
Metop-C ready for big day
With liftoff set for 7 November, the latest Metop weather satellite has been rolled out to the launch pad and positioned on the Soyuz rocket.
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News - General News
Europe's third polar-orbiting weather satellite lofted into orbit
The third Metop satellite, Metop-C, has been launched on a Soyuz rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
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News - General News
News - General News
Handing over Metop-C
Mission teams at ESA's ESOC operations centre in Germany handed control of the recently launched Metop-C satellite to EUMETSAT.
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News - General News
News - General News
Mission continuity
Long-term availability of Earth observation data from a given instrument is crucial to many data users and their research—but just how does it work?