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The
Meteosat Second Generation Programme
The Meteosat
satellite system has been operated successfully
since 1977 providing almost continuous images
and other services to the national Meteorological
Services of EUMETSAT and ESA Member States.
Meteosat
has also served operational and research users
throughout West and East Europe and Africa,
with many other users in North and South America,
the Middle East and even in the Arctic and Antarctic
areas. However, the definition of the requirements
and the performance of the system dates back
to technology of the early seventies and given
the advances in operational meteorology and
technology, there is a recognised operational
user requirement for an enhanced system starting
operations by end 2002/early 2003, before the
end of the first operational system.
The
MSG
System
The MSG
system consists of a space segment and a ground
segment. It is designed to provide data, products
and services over a system lifetime of, at least,
12 years, based on a series of three satellites
called MSG-1, -2 and -3. The launch of the first
satellite, MSG-1, is planned mid 2002.
The MSG
system will perform regular operations with
one satellite at the nominal location at 0 degrees
longitude over the equator, and foresees a stand-by
satellite that would be used in case of emergencies
or during major configuration changes.
Below
there is our MSG model to date, two tablemodels
and a paperweight can be found here.
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MSG
Meteosat Second Generation
1:4
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The MSG scale 1:4 comes with
a stand on which the model can be rotated. We
are currently working to make the model rotate
automatically, for more information about this
please contact us
here. Below you see a small animation made
with a series of pictures of our MSG 1:4 model.
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