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    MSG-3 declared operational as Meteosat-10

    After the successful completion of in-orbit testing, on 12 December the MSG-3 satellite was declared ready to support the Meteosat operational services and renamed Meteosat-10.

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    Meteosat Third Generation agreement signed at Ministerial meeting

    The European Space Agency and EUMETSAT today signed the agreement on the Meteosat Third Generation weather satellite system at the ESA Ministerial Council in Naples, Italy.

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    Council approves EPS-SG Preparatory Programme and extends Indian Ocean service

    EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, held its 77th Council meeting in Darmstadt, Germany, on 15 November.

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    The IASI instrument on Metop-B produces first data

    The Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) instrument on EUMETSAT’s Metop-B has produced its first calibrated infrared spectrum on 24 October at 14:58 UTC

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    Trial dissemination of Metop-B satellite data

    EUMETSAT has begun trial dissemination of data from instruments on board the Metop-B polar-orbiting satellite to partners, including the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Met Office (UK), Deutscher Wetterdienst and Météo-France

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    Trial dissemination of data from the MSG-3 satellite begins

    EUMETSAT has started trial dissemination of MSG-3 image data and meteorological products to national meteorological services in the organisation’s Member and Cooperating States and to the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

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    10th EUMETSAT User Forum in Africa

    The 10th EUMETSAT User Forum in Africa takes place at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) conference centre in Addis Ababa on 1-5 October 2012.

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    Metop-B delivers first data from polar orbit

    Four of the instruments on the Metop-B weather satellite (AMSU-A, ASCAT, MHS, GRAS) have been activated this week and are delivering data.

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    ESA hands over control of the Metop-B weather satellite to EUMETSAT

    Yesterday, at 18:30 local time EUMETSAT took control of Metop-B operations

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    Metop-B successfully launched

    At 18:28 CEST (22:28 Baikonur time), Metop-B was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Soyuz 2.1a rocket.

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    EUMETSAT signs cooperation agreement with China State Oceanic Administration

    Today’s signature of a cooperation agreement on the exchange of oceanographic satellite data between EUMETSAT and the China State Oceanic Administration’s (SOA’s) National Satellite Ocean Application Service (NSOAS) will further increase cooperation with China and create new opportunities for the oceanography user community.

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    EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference in Sopot, Poland

    On 3-7 September, meteorologists, scientists and researchers will meet in Sopot, Poland, for the 2012 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference, Europe’s leading annual specialised forum for scientific exchanges between meteorologists, oceanographers and environmentalists.

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