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Meteosat Third Generation: no more spinners

Submit on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 06:04

Unlike the two previous generations of Meteosat spinning satellites, Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) will be three-axis stabilised and each satellite will have different payloads for four different observation missions, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) said.

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