Our facilities

Information on our facilities at EUMETSAT

Ground-based infrastructure necessary to support the operation of our satellites, including the control of our spacecraft in orbit, and the acquisition, reception, processing and delivery of their data.

Last Updated

14 October 2022

Published on

26 March 2020

The EUMETSAT multimission ground network is made up of a central mission control, located at EUMETSAT headquarters; primary and backup ground stations for satellite control and data acquisition, and a distributed application ground segment for the generation of processed data and products.

Ground Network

Ground network

Ground-based infrastructure necessary to support the operation of our satellites.

Satellite Application Facilities (SAFs)

Utilising specialist expertise from the Member States, Satellite Application Facilities (SAFs) are dedicated centres of excellence for processing satellite data.