EUMETSAT Satellite Status

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1 EUMETSAT Satellite Status Dr. K. Dieter Klaes EUMETSAT 1 ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

2 EUMETSAT is an intergovernmental organisation with 30 Member States and 1 Cooperating State Member States AUSTRIA BELGIUM BULGARIA CROATIA SERBIA CZECH REPUBLIC DENMARK ESTONIA FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY GREECE HUNGARY ICELAND IRELAND ITALY LATVIA LITHUANIA LUXEMBOURG THE NETHERLANDS NORWAY POLAND PORTUGAL ROMANIA SLOVAK REPUBLIC SLOVENIA SPAIN SWEDEN SWITZERLAND TURKEY UNITED KINGDOM 2 ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

3 EUMETSAT Mission To establish, maintain and exploit European operational meteorological satellite systems, while considering the recommendations of WMO as much as possible A further objective is to contribute to operational climate monitoring and detection of global climatic changes By fulfilling these objectives, contribute to environmental monitoring, where interactions with the ocean and the atmosphere are involved 3 ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

4 Current EUMETSAT satellites (1) Jason-2 METOP-A (98.7 incl.) EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM Kept in its nominal mid-morning sun synchronous orbit at 817km altitude as part of the EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) METOP-B (98.7 incl.) EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM Successfully launched into low Earth orbit on 17 September Same orbital plane as Metop-A, phased min. apart. Prime satellite since April METOP-B Jason-3 Sentinel-3A (98.65 incl.) OCEAN AND LAND OBSERVATION SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY Launched 16 February 2016 in sun-synch. Orbit EUMETSAT operates the mission and provides marine service JASON-2 (66 incl.) OCEAN SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY Moved to interleaved orbit in October 2016, in support of the Ocean Surface Topography Mission. JASON-3 (66 incl.) OCEAN SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY Launched in January Kept in its nominal non-synchronous low Earth orbit at 1,336km altitude, in support of the Ocean Surface Topography Mission. METEOSAT-11 METEOSAT-10 METEOSAT-8 METEOSAT-9 METEOSAT-7 METEOSAT-10 (0 ) METEOSAT-8 (3.5 EAST) METEOSAT-9 (9.5 EAST) METEOSAT-7 (57.5 EAST) METEOSAT FULL DISC IMAGERY METEOSAT FULL DISC IMAGERY RAPID SCANNING SERVICE (RSS) INDIAN OCEAN DATA COVERAGE Prime Meteosat full disc imagery service over the European continent, Africa and parts of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans from 0 longitude. METEOSAT-11 (3.5 W ) Back-up Meteosat full disk service over the European continent, Africa and parts of the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Drifted to 41.5 E as part of IODC in autumn 2016 Positioned at 9.5 East delivering the Rapid Scanning Service (RSS) over Europe and adjacent seas. Operated in support of the Indian Ocean Data Coverage (IODC) mission, bridging an observational gap in this region, will be deorbited in April 2017) July 2015 In orbit-storage METOP-A 4 ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

5 Current EUMETSAT satellites (2) Jason-2 METOP-A (98.7 incl.) EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM Kept in its nominal mid-morning sun synchronous orbit at 817km altitude as part of the EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) METOP-B (98.7 incl.) EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM Successfully launched into low Earth orbit on 17 September Same orbital plane as Metop-A, phased min. apart. Prime satellite since April METOP-B Jason-3 Sentinel-3A (98.65 incl.) OCEAN AND LAND OBSERVATION SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY Launched 16 February 2016 in sun-synch. Orbit EUMETSAT operates the mission and provides marine service JASON-2 (66 incl.) OCEAN SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY Kept in its nominal nonsynchronous low Earth orbit at 1,336km altitude, in support of the Ocean Surface Topography Mission. JASON-3 (66 incl.) OCEAN SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY Launched in January Kept in its nominal non-synchronous low Earth orbit at 1,336km altitude, in support of the Ocean Surface Topography Mission. METEOSAT-11 METEOSAT-10 METEOSAT-9 METEOSAT-8 METEOSAT-11 (3.5 W ) METEOSAT-10 (0 ) METEOSAT-9 (9.5 EAST) METEOSAT-8 (41.5 EAST) July 2015 In orbit-storage METEOSAT FULL DISC IMAGERY Prime Meteosat full disc imagery service over the European continent, Africa and parts of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans from 0 longitude. RAPID SCANNING SERVICE (RSS) Positioned at 9.5 East delivering the Rapid Scanning Service (RSS) over Europe and adjacent seas. INDIAN OCEAN DATA COVERAGE Operated in support of the Indian Ocean Data Coverage (IODC) mission, continuing bridging an observational gap in this region In the frame of an international co-operation) METOP-A 5 ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

6 Exploiting mandatory programmes: EPS EUMETSAT Polar Sytem (EPS): Two satellites (Metop-A, Metop-B) in orbit One to be launched (Metop-C) 3-month launch period notified: October - December month launch slot under discussion in busy launch manifest 6 ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

7 Metop-A and Metop-B remain the same orbital plane about 180 apart Mid Morning Orbit Equator Crossing Time: 09:30 (Local Solar Time, Ascending Node) Orbital Phase : min. Metop-C launch scheduled October 2018 into the same orbital plane Metop-B Prime Satellite Equator Crossing Time: 09:30 (Local Solar Time, Ascending Node) Phasing and scenario TBD Metop-A life time extension agreed OOP Maneouvre in autumn 2016 to keep LTAN until June 2017 Will start drifting June 2017 Metop-A 7 ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

8 Developing mandatory programmes: EPS-SG EPS-SG programme approved, in force Twin-satellite configuration of space segment Metop-SGA and Metop-SGB have complementary payloads Sentinel-5 instrument of Metop-SGA provided by/to be exploited on behalf of the EU (Copernicus) Programme covers two pairs of satellites, for 21 years of operations Development ongoing: Critical design of space segment, Preliminary design of ground segment Dates for Flight Acceptance Reviews and Launch Metop-SGA1 planned launch in September 2021 Metop-SGB1 planned launch in December ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

9 EPS-SG mission capabilities Major improvements to all EPS observation missions Infrared and microwave sounding Optical imagery (METImage, developed by DLR) Scatterometer Radio-occultation New imagery missions 3MI: first operational imaging polarimeter Microwave imager (MWI): imagery of precipitation Ice Cloud Imager (ICI): ice clouds 9 ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

10 From EPS to EPS-SG: transition planning YEAR EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM (EPS) METOP-A METOP-B METOP-C Metop-A launch Metop-B launch 19 October September 2012 Metop-C launch October 2018 EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM-SECOND GENERATION (EPS-SG METOP-SG-A1 METOP-SG-B1 10 ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

11 EUMETSAT contribution to Part of the Copernicus mandate is to use data from Meteosat, Metop and Jason-2 operational satellite systems established, maintained and operated by EUMETSAT. Operation of Copernicus-dedicated missions on atmosphere and oceans falling within EUMETSAT s mandate i.e. the Sentinel-3 marine mission and the Jason-3 and Jason-CS missions of the Copernicus high-precision ocean altimetry (HPOA) activity. Sources: ESA and EUMETSAT Planning, development and integration into future EUMETSAT systems of Copernicus missions dedicated to atmospheric chemistry (Sentinel-4 and MTG; Sentinel-5 and EPS-SG), and their exploitation in full synergy with EUMETSAT s own missions 11 ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

12 Overview of the transition to next generation LEO systems (1) EUMETSAT missions Shared/Copernicus missions 12 ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

13 Overview of the transition to next generation LEO systems (2) YEAR EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM (EPS) METOP-A METOP-B METOP-C EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM SECOND GENERATION (EPS-SG) METOP-SG A: SOUNDING AND IMAGERY METOP-SG B: MICROWAVE IMAGERY JASON (HIGH PRECISION OCEAN ALTIMETRY) JASON-2 Optional Programmes/shared missions JASON-3 SENTINEL 6 (JASON-CS) COPERNICUS Third Party Programmes SENTINEL-3 A/B/C/D SENTINEL-4 ON MTG-S SENTINEL-5 ON METOP-SG A YEAR ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

14 Jason-2/Jason-3 interleaved operations Jason-3 became the reference HPOA mission on 19 September 2016 Jason-2 moved to interleaved orbit on 14 October ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

15 Mandatory programmes: Meteosat First and Second Generation Meteosat-7 re-orbiting planned on 3-7 April, spacecraft deconfiguration on April High availability of Meteosat-10/Full Earth Scan service Meteosat-9/Rapid Scan Service GERB-1 in safe mode, de-spin mirror remained blocked even at maximum torque: end of operations planned Meteosat-11 in-orbit storage Payload activated from 19 to 31 January incl. SEVIRI decontamination 15 ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland Slide: 15

16 Multi-partner IODC services Operational Meteosat-8 services from 41.5 E started on 1 February Dissemination to Africa started 2 nd INSAT-3D (R) satellite under commissioning for 15-min imagery in tandem Faster access to INSAT-3D imagery addressed with ISRO (Met-8 back up) 16 ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland Slide: 16

17 Developing next generation satellite systems : METEOSAT Third Generation (MTG) Two Satellite System MTG-I imaging satellite Flexible Combined Imager Lightning Imager MTG-S sounding satellite Infrared Sounder IRS Hyperspectral Infrared Sounding UVN (UV near IR) sounding MTG-I schedule has remained stable, MTG-I1 planned launch in Q MTG-S MTG-S1 planned launch in Q ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

18 Summarising: Operational services call for long term commitments... YEAR METEOSAT SECOND GENERATION METEOSAT-8 METEOSAT-9 Mandatory Programmes EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM (EPS) METOP-A MSG-3/METEOSAT-10 METOP-B MSG-4/METEOSAT-11* METOP-C METEOSAT THIRD GENERATION MTG-I-1 : IMAGERY MTG-S-1: SOUNDING MTG-I-2: IMAGERY METOP-SG A: SOUNDING AND IMAGERY METOP-SG B: MICROWAVE IMAGERY MTG-I-3: IMAGERY MTG-S-2: SOUNDING MTG-I-4: IMAGERY EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM SECOND GENERATION (EPS-SG) JASON (HIGH PRECISION OCEAN ALTIMETRY) JASON-2 Optional Programmes JASON-3 COPERNICUS SENTINEL 6 (JASON-CS) Third Party Programmes SENTINEL-3 A/B/C/D SENTINEL-4 ON MTG-S SENTINEL-5 ON METOP-SG A YEAR ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

19 Thank you for your attention! 19 ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

20 Backup/Annex 20 ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

21 New and enhanced products (1) IASI atmospheric composition products NRT CO column and vertical profile (released on 10 March) SO2 column (under deployment) 21 ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

22 New and enhanced products (2) Sea Ice and Land Ice Temperature products from OSI SAF Experimental/demonstrational status (as of 21 February 2017), SST operational 22 ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

23 New and enhanced products (3) New land surface products from LSA and H SAFs 10-day surface Albedo from AVHRR 10-day Land Surface Temperature from AVHRR Daily snow cover from AVHRR 23 ET-SAT Meeting 4-6 April 2017, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland