Meteosat Second Generation

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Meteosat Second Generation, or MSG, is part of the Meteosat family of meteorological satellites placed in geostationary orbit, developed under the responsibility of the European Space Agency on behalf of the European meteorological organisation EUMETSAT. It succeeds the first-generation Meteosat satellite series. Four satellites of this type were built and launched between 2002 and 2015.