Meteosat Weather Satellite Arrives at French Guiana Launch Site

After a two-week voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, the ship transporting the first Meteosat Third Generation satellite recently docked at Pariacabo in French Guiana and the cargo unloaded. Now safe and sound in one of the spaceport’s cleanrooms, satellite engineers will ready it for liftoff on an Ariane 5 rocket in December. Once in geostationary orbit,…