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Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched

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198 points diggan | 1 comments | 05 Jul 25 14:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.297s | source
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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.

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1. nullhole ◴[05 Jul 25 20:53 UTC] No.44475462[source]▶
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.