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aliases:
  - context: missionID
    lexicon: ceos
    term: 33
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/missionsummary.aspx?missionID=33
  - context: Mission
    lexicon: ceos
    term: Meteosat-4
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/missionindex.aspx#M
  - context: Source
    lexicon: ornl
    term: METEOSAT-4
    url: ~
cited_by: []
contributors:
  - display_name: 'Contributor : European Space Agency '
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/contributor/3736.yaml
    id: 3736
    organization:
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      display_name: European Space Agency
      identifier: european-space-agency
      name: European Space Agency
      organization_type_identifier: intergovernmental
      type: organization
      url: http://www.esa.int/
    organization_uri: /organization/european-space-agency
    person: {}
    person_id: ~
    person_uri: ~
    role_type_identifier: contributor
    uri: /contributor/3736
  - display_name: 'Contributor : European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites '
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/contributor/3743.yaml
    id: 3743
    organization:
      country_code: ~
      display_name: European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
      identifier: european-organisation-exploitation-meteorological-satellites
      name: European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
      organization_type_identifier: intergovernmental
      type: organization
      url: http://www.eumetsat.int
    organization_uri: /organization/european-organisation-exploitation-meteorological-satellites
    person: {}
    person_id: ~
    person_uri: ~
    role_type_identifier: contributor
    uri: /contributor/3743
description: 'Meteosat is the European meteorological program in GEO (Geostationary Orbit) that was initiated in 1972 by ESRO (European Space Research Organization). ESRO was founded in 1962 and served as predecessor organization to ESA (European Space Agency) which was founded in 1975. Actually the beginnings of European space meteorology goes back to 1968 when CNES, the young French national space agency, proposed to ESRO to “Europeanize” its “Meteosat” concept. The proposal was accepted in 1972 and 8 Member States decided to finance the Meteosat Preoperational Program (Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Switzerland).'
description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/meteosat-first-generation
display_name: meteosat-4
end_date: 1995-01-01T00:00:00
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href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteosat-4.yaml
identifier: meteosat-4
instruments:
  - description: Communications system
    description_attribution: Communications system
    identifier: communications-package-for-meteosat
    name: Communications package for Meteosat
    uri: /instrument/communications-package-for-meteosat
  - description: Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer
    description_attribution: Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer
    identifier: meteosat-visible-and-infra-red-imager
    name: METEOSAT Visible and Infra-Red Imager
    uri: /instrument/meteosat-visible-and-infra-red-imager
name: Meteosat-4
parents: []
platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
references: []
start_date: 1989-01-01T00:00:00
type: platform
uri: /platform/meteosat-4
url: http://www.eumetsat.de/en/dps/news/spacecraft.html