Press Release: European MetOp-SG weather satellites : CNES and Eumetsat sign agreement on new-generation IASI-NG instruments

Today at CNES’s Head Office in Paris, the agency’s President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Alain Ratier, Director General of Eumetsat, signed a cooperation agreement to develop a new generation of Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometers (IASI-NG) to be flown starting in 2021 on the three MetOp-SG A weather satellites of Eumetsat’s Polar System Second Generation (EPS-SG).