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A brief history of Meteosat

22 November 2007

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Meteosat 25th anniversary 2002

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Developed by ESA and since 1995 operated by EUMETSAT, Meteosat has been routinely returning Earth imagery from geostationary orbit since 1977. [Image Date: 1976] [76.08.719-001]

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ESA & EUMETSAT

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Meteosat Operations Control Centre (MOCC) / Meteosat Exploitation Project (MEP), ESOC, Darmstadt (Germany).

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Meteosat Second Generation (MSG)

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MSG-2 and its payload adapter (ACU) moved onto the CCU-2 (payload transport container).

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