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ESAAnd… liftoff! 🚀 On 27 August at 22:11 CEST (17:10 local time), MTG-I2 lifted off aboard Ariane 6 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. Minutes later, it phoned home: first signal received, solar array deployed. MTG-I2 is the third satellite in @EUMETSAT's Meteosat Third Generation family. Together, they'll give Europe and North Africa sharper, faster weather forecasts and a clearer view of our changing climate. There's another first here too. This is the first time Ariane 6 has carried a satellite towards geostationary orbit. 📹 ESA/CNES/ArianeGroup/Arianespace
On the profile · Aug 27, 23:12