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    ESA > Our Activities > Observing the Earth > Benefiting Our Economy

    MSG-2 launched

    21 December 2005

    The latest Meteosat Second Generation satellite, MSG-2, has been launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 23:33 CET.


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