Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched

(www.eumetsat.int)

198 points diggan | 3 comments | 05 Jul 25 14:21 UTC | HN request time: 1.125s | source

Show context

themisto ◴[05 Jul 25 14:42 UTC] No.44473111[source]▶

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.

replies(3): >>44475413 #>>44475462 #>>44475892 #

1. amarcheschi ◴[05 Jul 25 20:45 UTC] No.44475413[source]▶

>>44473111 #

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...

replies(1): >>44478554 #

2. MrDresden ◴[06 Jul 25 07:18 UTC] No.44478554[source]▶

>>44475413 (TP) #

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/

replies(1): >>44479403 #

3. tacet ◴[06 Jul 25 10:16 UTC] No.44479403[source]▶

>>44478554 #

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

↑