Meteosat-10

Meteosat-10 (also designated MSG-3, the third Meteosat Second Generation satellite) is operated by EUMETSAT and was launched on 5 July 2012 into geostationary orbit at 0 degrees longitude. The satellite carries the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI), providing full-disk imagery across 12 spectral channels every 15 minutes, and the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) instrument for broadband solar and thermal flux measurements. Meteosat-10 provides the prime 0 degree geostationary service for weather nowcasting, atmospheric motion vector derivation, thermal anomaly detection, and Earth radiation budget monitoring over Europe, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, and adjacent seas. The 18,000 km swath full-disk service has built an archive extending approximately 13 years. WMO OSCAR indicates that EUMETSAT began parallel operations with Meteosat-12 (MTG-I1) from June 2025, with a transition path toward Meteosat-10 moving to backup role; the exact handover date to Meteosat-12 had not been confirmed in tier-1 sources as of the research date, while EUMETSAT's service page (updated March 2026) lists Meteosat-10 as providing the 0 degree service. ^{[1][2][3][4][5]}