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aliases:
  - context: missionID
    lexicon: ceos
    term: 259
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/missionsummary.aspx?missionID=259
  - context: Mission
    lexicon: ceos
    term: Meteosat-9
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/missionindex.aspx#M
cited_by: []
contributors:
  - display_name: 'Contributor : European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites '
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    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
  - display_name: 'Contributor : European Space Agency '
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/contributor/3736.yaml
    id: 3736
    organization:
      country_code: ~
      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
description: 'The first generation Meteosat series (Meteosat-1 to -7) of EUMETSAT is gradually being replaced by a second generation series (MSG) with a launch of the first satellite MSG-1 on Aug. 28, 2002, to be followed by three more satellites, ensuring operational continuity in GEO for at least 16 years. MSG-1 became Meteosat-8 on Jan. 29, 2004 when the mission was declared “operational” (i.e., commencement of routine operations after the end of the commissioning phase).'
description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/meteosat-second-generation
display_name: meteosat-second-generation-2
end_date: 2021-12-01T00:00:00
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    uri: /file/0b3939d8-93f0-4c8d-a3df-70ff16541fa9
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href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteosat-second-generation-2.yaml
identifier: meteosat-second-generation-2
instruments:
  - description: Broad-band radiometer
    description_attribution: Broad-band radiometer
    identifier: geostationary-earth-radiation-budget
    name: Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget
    uri: /instrument/geostationary-earth-radiation-budget
  - description: Communications system
    description_attribution: Communications system
    identifier: communications-package-for-msg
    name: Communications package for MSG
    uri: /instrument/communications-package-for-msg
  - description: Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer
    description_attribution: Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer
    identifier: spinning-enhanced-visible-and-infra-red-imager
    name: Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infra-Red Imager
    uri: /instrument/spinning-enhanced-visible-and-infra-red-imager
name: Meteosat Second Generation-2
parents: []
platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
references: []
start_date: 2005-12-22T00:00:00
type: platform
uri: /platform/meteosat-second-generation-2
url: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Satellites/index.htm?l=en?