Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images

ESA has done a lot of good for public benefit with the Sentinel-1/2 missions. I happen to work with remote sensing and Sentinel data has been my entry point to the field.

I hope that ESA keeps pushing forward even more. I am afraid that although Sentinel missions are great, ESA projects are a bit demo-like and limited in scope. Europe should focus on scaling up and applying the tech, not just proving that ambitious projects are possible for their own sake.

Would the data from this satellite be freely available to the public? I couldn't see anything obvious

Europe Is back on the map. It´s going slow but steady. Hope they involve community in their tech projects.

Does anyone know what are we talking about in practice in terms of weather forecast prediction improvement? Like MAE/RMSE

Congrats ESA! Those first images are pretty striking. It's pretty cool to see the contrast between the blue high altitude clouds and the red hot surface, particularly just below the Sahara.

The most surprising thing on this page for me was:

> The areas of least atmospheric humidity ... a large area of ‘dry’ atmosphere also covers part of the South Atlantic Ocean (centre of image).

This area is not that far south as to basically indicate the antarctic, and it is warm season in the southern hemisphere. I did not even think it would be possible to have a larger area of low humidity over a massive ocean like that.

Also check out the EUMETSAT site if you want more information on how the data is used:

https://www.eumetsat.int/features/see-earths-atmosphere-neve...

Is there any info about the modulation/encoding/frequency? It would be great to have an open source decoder for RTL-SDR like we have for NOAA or METEOR.

With the massive budget cuts of the NOAA and DMSP, I am glad someone else can fill that gap.

I recently met a European space startup founder and was surprised to learn how much space innovation is happening in Europe with ESA. Europe wants to become less depended on SpaceX and NASA, and is heavily investing there. More funding + strong aerospace programs at universities like TU Munich has led to companies like ISAR Aerospace (SpaceX competitor), which is great to see.

I hate to worry everyone, but I think there might be some triangular chunks missing off the corners of our planet, someone should probably look into this.

(Specifically around 2, 5, and 10 o clock on the orientation of the images provided)

>"Most engineers (including me) spent months grinding LeetCode ..."

I have not done it once (work in programming for 40+ years) as independent. Few times potential clients tried to play this game but I just simple refuse. On was surprised and asked why? My answer was - I have a track record of successful deliveries, here is big list of projects, emails and phone numbers to confirm. If you are going instead to rely on some tests to prove my abilities I have better things to do then be a schoolboy on exams.

I wonder if hobbyists would be able to pick up this data using some sort of RF capture device.

my weather app is still gonna tell me its raining while its not

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