EUMETSAT’s Mission Control Centre has officially taken the reins of the Metop Second Generation A1 (Metop-SGA1) satellite, ...

SGA1, a next-gen polar-orbiting weather satellite, from French Guiana. The mission, Ariane 6’s third flight, will enhance ...

Europe's Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket launched for the third time ever tonight (Aug. 12), sending an advanced weather and ...

The satellite carries a suite of six advanced instruments, including both upgraded and brand-new sensors, designed to provide meteorological data at unprecedented levels of detail.

As Europe battles record-breaking heat, the Ariane 6 rocket carrying the MetOp-SGA1 satellite successfully launched on ...

As many European countries simmer in a deadly heatwave, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological ...

A new European weather satellite has successfully launched, in a boost for global monitoring of weather, climate and ...

Two new rockets just launched within 30 minutes of each other, with each vehicle lifting off for just the third time. First up, Arianespace’s Ariane 6 launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, ...

It represents Europe's first contribution to a US-led programme, the Joint Polar System, a new satellite constellation orbiting between the north and south poles ...

An Airbus-built satellite has been placed into orbit after successfully launching onboard an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s ...

More accurate weather forecasts - this is what the new European weather satellite Metop-SGA1 should make possible. The ...