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2012
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28 September 2012
Four of the instruments on the Metop-B weather satellite (AMSU-A, ASCAT, MHS, GRAS) have been activated this week and are delivering data.
02–07 September 2012, Sopot, Poland
3-7 September, Sopot, Poland
17 September 2012
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.
21 September 2012
Yesterday, at 18:30 local time EUMETSAT took control of Metop-B operations