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Meteosat-12
Compiled from public sources on 2026-06-14. Not independently verified by EUMETSAT.
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Meteosat-12 (also designated MTG-I1, the first Meteosat Third Generation Imager) is operated by EUMETSAT and was launched on 13 December 2022 into geostationary orbit at 0 degrees longitude. The satellite carries the Flexible Combined Imager (FCI), which provides full-disk Earth imagery every 10 minutes across 16 spectral channels at higher spatial resolution and more bands than its MSG predecessors, and the Lightning Imager (LI), which detects lightning continuously over Europe and Africa during day and night. FCI Level 1 data became operational in December 2024, and Meteosat-12 assumed prime geostationary service duty for Europe, Africa, and surrounding oceans in June 2025. The mission supports weather nowcasting, atmospheric motion vector derivation, sea surface temperature retrieval, thermal anomaly detection for wildfire monitoring, and optical transient detection via the Lightning Imager. [1][2][3]
All fields
| current status | operational |
| operator | EUMETSAT |
| launch vehicle | arianespace-ariane-5 |
| Launched | 2022-12-13 |
| orbit type | Geostationary orbit; prime 0 degree longitude Meteosat service |
| revisit days | 0.006944 |
| tasking supported | false |
| current geographic priority | Europe, Africa and surrounding oceans from the 0 degree geostationary service |
| Last updated | 2026-06-14 |
| claim status | agency-sourced |
Compositional position
- [1]Meteosat-12 begins prime service dutyagency doc2026-06-14
- [2]Using Meteosat Third Generation dataagency doc2026-06-14
- [3]MTG FCI level 1c data guideagency doc2026-06-14