Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched

Only tangentially related: I have nothing but respect for EUMETSAT and their public data store. For past work projects I've had to interface with a pretty broad sample of the world's space and/or meteorological agency's public data stores and APIs and EUMDAC (EUMETSAT's API client) was top tier. Well documented, modern, fast, and generally headache free.

In fact, I have nothing but respect for any agency that makes free and public access to earth observation data a priority, regardless of how janky their API is.

Copernicus browser allows to browser images of the earth in quite high resolution (I think up to 20x20m) refreshed every 3 days or so and it's absolutely cool to be able to use different views such as nir, swir...

I've worked with similar data in the past. As you say, nothing but respect for agencies that make such useful data publicly available.

Are there any other standout national agencies you've dealt with?

And, have you seen any degradation recently with NOAA data? NGS has always impressed me, but I've been worried about their future lately.

Shout-out to the NOAA GFS team, who publish the GFS analysis directly to AWS S3.

https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-gfs-bdp-pds/

GFS outputs are also available for free from NOMADS. That was true long before AWS came up with the public dataset program.

I think the delay must be much longer than 3 days, since Iceland and Norway are still shown covered in their winter coats. Really interesting tool though.

https://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu/

Hmm, there is no delay. Iirc the full cycle (sattelites return to exactly same spot in relation to earth) is about 10 days and most paces get crossed in 1-3 days.

Are you looking at sentinel 1 or sentinel 2