EUMETSAT • 10th June 2024 A virtual Earth As extreme weather events become more frequent, mitigating their effects requires understanding them more deeply. This is exactly what Destination Earth enables people to do.
EUMETSAT • 22nd May 2024 Satellites over Africa save lives Last spring, Cyclone Freddy tore across south-eastern Africa. It hit Malawi the hardest, pummeling the country with six months’ worth of rain in only six days.
EUMETSAT • 25th April 2024 Behind the data: rescuing rock lobsters from a red tide In early March 2022, more than 700,000 West Coast rock lobsters made their way onto the shore of Elands Bay in South Africa.
EUMETSAT • 10th April 2024 Estimating energy output from solar panels As greenhouse gas emissions continue to drive global warming, implementing alternative energy sources is becoming increasingly important.
EUMETSAT • 13th March 2024 Satellites detect effect of shipping pollution on clouds Clouds play a dual role in regulating the Earth’s temperature. They can act as both a shield, reflecting incoming sunlight back into space, and as a blanket, keeping heat from below in.
EUMETSAT • 5th February 2024 Behind the data: measuring ocean carbon Carbon both makes life possible, comprising an essential building block of our cells, and has the power to hinder it, as the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide spurs on climate change.
EUMETSAT • 22nd November 2023 Cutting through the noise In preparation for processing data from Himawari-10, Japan’s first satellite that will carry a hyperspectral infrared sounder, Shin Koyamatsu is spending a year at EUMETSAT learning from its wealth of infrared sounder data and the techniques used to process them.
EUMETSAT • 6th November 2023 Behind the data: detecting marine heatwaves Marine heatwaves – periods of abnormally hot ocean temperatures as compared to the average temperature – may have far-reaching effects on oceans that are already rising, becoming more acidic, and losing coral reefs and sea ice.
EUMETSAT • 24th May 2023 Ensuring the speedy flow of data As Dissemination Operations Engineer, Tawk is now part of a team whose main mission is to ensure that data, including those from the new EUMETSAT-operated Meteosat Third Generation satellites, make it in near-real time to the people who use them.
EUMETSAT • 4th May 2023 Preventing space collisions From receiving a warning about an object en route to come within 5 kilometres of MTG-I1 to carrying out a collision avoidance manoeuvre, Stefano Pessina, Flight Dynamics Team Leader for EUMETSAT-operated geostationary satellites, explains the steps his team takes to keep MTG-I1 out of harm’s way.
EUMETSAT • 22nd March 2023 Behind the data: Better monitoring of cyclones When a cyclone approaches, accurate forecasts and timely warnings can make the difference between life and death.
EUMETSAT • 28th February 2023 Serving the users Sean Burns counts 29 July 1981 as one of his more unusual days at work.
EUMETSAT • 31st January 2023 Navigating space law As legal counsel at the Office of the High Representative, the international organisation that implemented the civilian aspects of the Dayton Peace Agreement which ended the war in Bosnia, Lauth found herself fascinated by the world of international organisations and how national and international institutions intersect.
EUMETSAT • 23rd December 2022 A 36,000 kilometre-journey into orbit When the first Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellite, MTG-Imager 1, successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana, on 13 December 2022 and the celebratory champagne was uncorked, a team on the other side of the world hunkered down at their mission control computer consoles, ready for business.
EUMETSAT • 12th December 2022 The unbelievable joy of a satellite launch Before Christian Corba fell in love with rockets, he was fascinated with aeroplanes.
EUMETSAT • 9th December 2022 A storm short-range weather models didn’t see Equipped with nets and floating lanterns, fishermen set out on Lake Victoria at night.
EUMETSAT • 5th December 2022 Achieving difficult things Gareth Williams credits his career in the space sector to a telegramme.
EUMETSAT • 14th November 2022 Galaxy hunter by night Over the course of nights spanning six years, Marquez designed a system that makes it possible to discover new galaxies.
EUMETSAT • 31st October 2022 The legacy of TOPEX-Poseidon Today, it is common sense that by circulating water and heat throughout the globe, the ocean influences the climate and its changes. But the fact that the Earth’s climate – and, by extension, the fate of life itself – is inextricably bound to the ocean was not always known.
EUMETSAT • 28th October 2022 Letting imagination flow The year was 1979. Dr Jochen Grandell, then nine years old, had received a compendium of the solar system from his parents as a Christmas present.