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| | | | Weather satellite sets new service record
4 February 2010 Europe’s series of Meteosat satellites has been improving the accuracy of weather forecasts for over 30 years. Meteosat-6 has recently broken the record for the operational life of one of these robust missions.
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|  | | | Meteosat Third Generation on track
7 December 2007 ESA’s Director of Earth Observation Programmes, Dr Volker Liebig, and EUMETSAT Director General, Dr Lars Prahm, have exchanged letters to document the understanding achieved between the two organisations on cooperation and coordination regarding the approval process of the respective Meteosat Third Generation programmes.
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| | | | ESA celebrates 30 years of Meteosat
22 November 2007 Thirty years ago tomorrow, Europe's first geostationary weather satellite - Meteosat-1 - was launched by the then-young European Space Agency.
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