This technical report describes the MAST satellite acquisition system (Multimission Acquisition SysTem) operating at the INGV headquarters in Rome since 2019 and part of the main instrumentation of the ADEO laboratory (Earth Observation Data Acquisition) established in May 2021 by the Remote Sensing Functional Unit of the ONT section. The system acquires meteorological and environmental satellite data transmitted by the EUMETSAT Consortium through the EUMETCast distribution system. EUMETCast’s Basic, High volume 1, High Volume 2, and Terrestrial services are currently distributing real­time or near real­time more than 120 data and products acquired by Earth Observation (EO) instruments aboard satellites in geostationary and polar orbit managed by major international space agencies. The...