ESA MEDIA BFGS ON UPCOMING LAUNCH OF MTG-S1 AND SENTINEL-4, June 24, 2025, Vienna, Austria/online, 9:00 am ET

The European Space Agency (ESA) will hold media briefings in several languages on June 24, 2025 in person and/or online to discuss the upcoming launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 of two spacecraft: the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1) and the Copernicus Sentinel-4 instrument.

The briefings in English and German will take place in-person at the Living Planet Symposium in Vienna, Austria and online. The briefings in Italian and French will be online only. (ESA will webcast many sessions of the Living Planet Symposium from June 23-27. See the ESA Web TV website for details.)

The MTG-S1/Sentinel-4 briefing in English is at 15:00-16:00 Central European Summer Time (9:00 am EDT) and will be webcast on ESA Web TV. Speakers are:

• Phil Evans, Director General, Eumetsat
• Simonetta Cheli, Director of Earth Observation Programmes, ESA
• Mauro Facchini, Head of Earth Observation Unit, European Commission
• James Champion, MTG Project Manager, ESA
• Florence Rabier, ECMWF