Earth, captured once a day by the EUMETSAT meteorological satellite, have been time-lapsed. (video looped) Credit: Simon ...

SpaceX is planning a Falcon 9 launch of the Eumetsat MTG-S1 mission to geosynchronous transfer orbit Tuesday evening. It's ...

Live updates from the launch of the EUMETSAT MTG-S1 weather satellite for ESA. Liftoff occurred at 5:04 p.m. July 1 from ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just launched an advanced European weather satellite and aced its landing on a ship at sea. The ...

Europe’s meteorological satellite agency, EUMETSAT, the European Commission, the European Space Agency, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts and Mercator Ocean International ...

SpaceX launched the EUMETSAT MTG-S1 weather satellite for the European Space Agency just as storms rolled into the Space ...

Europe has added to its weather monitoring and Earth-observation capacity with the launch of the MTG-S1 satellite and the ...

Eumetsat, though, is not the first European institutional customer to select Falcon 9 for launches, particularly during the “launcher crisis” that has limited European access to space.

Eumetsat said in a Dec. 8 statement that Metop-A will be directed into a lower perigee orbit that will help ensure it reenters the atmosphere within 25 years of ending service.

MTG-S1 is part of the Meteosat Third Generation programme, Europe’s new fleet of geostationary meteorological satellites. Image: EUMETSAT DARMSTADT, Germany, July 02, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE ...

Applause broke out at EUMETSAT headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany, as staff, guests, and media watched a live stream of the satellite separating from its launcher and continuing its journey into ...