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In the coming weeks two Meteo satellites will be launched: in June it will be MSG 3 from Kourou and then METOP B from Baikonur. 35 years after the launch of Meteosat, the first European weather satellite, Europe has now a full fleet of satellite with EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, delivering weather and climate-related satellite data, images and products 24 hours a day,365 days a year. The present system includes two generations of geostationary Meteosat satellites whose global overview is complemented by the detailed observations provided in particular by the polar orbiting Metop satellite. http://television.esa.int/sche_detail.cfm?id=2628