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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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