Hurricane Irma
Hurricane Irma is the strongest Atlantic basin hurricane ever recorded outside the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. It lasted as a hurricane from August 31 until September 11 ...
MSG-4 Launch into GEO
The fourth and last satellite of the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG-4) was succesfully launched from French Guiana on July 15, 2015 aboard an Ariane 5 ECA rocket. MSG-4 will be placed, as its predecessors, in a geosynchronous also called Geosynchronous Equatorial Orbit (GEO). A geosynchronous orbit has an orbital period matching the rotation rate of the Earth. This is a sidereal day, which is 23h 56m 4s in length, and represents the time taken for the Earth to rotate once about its polar axis relative to a distant fixed point. Lets see what has to be done to get the satellite there ...
Geostationary-Satellites
As with EumetCast you receive data from a lot of different satellites, geostationary as well as polar orbiting ones, I first want to give you an idea of the geostationary portion of the data and some of its application ...
Solar Eclipse
On 20.03.2015 we wittnessed a partial solar eclipse! The total solar eclipse happend further north over the norwegian sea up to Spitzbergen. This is clearly visible in the following satellite images ...
Tropical Cyclone Pam
On 14. March 2015 a tropical cyclone called "Pam" hit the capital of Vanuatu, an island located east of Australia in the pacific ocean ...
Reception Station
I want to give you a short report on my own reception station setup ...