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Met Office Space Programme

The Met Office Space Programme team liaises with the British space industry and provides advice on long-term strategy to ensure that our policies on space-related activities are well founded. We represent the Met Office as a delegate at EUMETSAT, ESA and BNSC meetings, and represent the Met Office at national and international meetings.

The team depends on links with all areas of the Met Office for scientific advice regarding use of satellite data, ocean observations, instruments and missions, international relations and data policy.

BNSC logo British National Space Centre (BNSC)
The Met Office is a member of the BNSC partnership, with other government departments and agencies, including the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department for Transport (DfT), QinetiQ, Ministry of Defence (MoD), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Office of Science and Technology (OST), Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)

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EUMETSAT logo EUMETSAT
The Met Office represents the UK in EUMETSAT (the European organisation for the exploitation of meteorological satellites) - a partnership of 18 European governments, represented in most cases by their national meteorological services. There are also 12 co-operating states, which pay half of the full membership fee and have the opportunity to become full members.

EUMETSAT's current programmes are: Meteosat Transition Programme; operation of first generation Meteosat satellites in geostationary orbit: Meteosat 5, 6 and 7; Meteosat Second Generation (MSG): Meteosat 8 and 9; and preparation for future operation of MSG 3 and 4, and the EUMETSAT Polar System METOP 1.

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ESA logo European Space Agency (ESA)
BNSC, of which the Met Office is a member, represents the UK in ESA. ESA is a partnership of 17 European Member Governments. Canada, Hungary and the Czech Republic also participate in some projects under cooperation agreements.

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