DLR - Space Administration - A new era for European weather satellites has begun

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A new era for European weather satellites has begun - MetOp circles the poles

On Thursday 19 October 2006, at 18.28 (CEST) the European meteorological satellite MetOp was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. MetOp A (Meteorological Operational Satellite) is now circling Earth in a polar orbit.

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