February 12th, 2011
McMurdo Station in Antarctica receives first data from EUMETSAT’s Metop-A satellite

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Once operational, the capability will provide Metop environmental data to US and European weather services twice as fast as they receive it today, since data will be dumped to ground for processing every half orbit, firstly over the existing EUMETSAT Svalbard ground station in the Arctic, followed by the McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Read More