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Europe´s first polar orbiting weather satellite MetOp-A built by Airbus Defence and Space turns 10 on October 19, 2016

MetOp-A, Europe’s first polar orbiting weather satellite, still going strong after 10 years – double its specified lifetime High precision weather data helps businesses, farmers and security organisations TOULOUSE, 18-Oct-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — It has orbited Earth almost 52,000 times, delivered … Read the full press release