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Launch of MetOp-A postponed
 
20 July 2006

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MetOp on the launch pad
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After a series of delays, MetOp-A was launched on 19 October 2006 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, on a Soyuz ST rocket with a Fregat upper stage.

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