On Thursday 4 April, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that its new Arctic weather satellite would be launched in June.
According to Simonetta Cheli, Director of Earth Observation Programmes at the ESA, this satellite will enable immediate forecasting in the Arctic for the first time, to the benefit of weather and climate change forecasting on a global scale.
In a press release, ESA explained that it can take up to 24 hours for satellites returning data over the poles to achieve...