New European Weather Satellite Shipped to French Guiana

Oct 04, 2022

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The first European Meteosat Third Generation weather satellite is now safely aboard a ship and making its way across the Atlantic to French Guiana where it will be readied for liftoff in December. Once launched into geostationary orbit, 36,000 km (≈22,370 miles) above Earth, this new weather satellite, which carries two new extremely sensitive instrumen…

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