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Watch Powerful Ariane 6 Rocket Launch European Weather Satellite to Orbit Today

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Europe's most powerful rocket will fly today (Aug. 27), and you can watch the action live. An Ariane 6 is scheduled to launch the MTG-I2 weather satellite from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana today (Aug. 27), during a 2.5-hour window that opens at 4:10 p.m. EDT (2010 GMT; 5:10 p.m. local time in Kourou). You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of Arianespace, the French company that operates the Ariane 6. Coverage will begi…

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MTG-I2 is designed to improve warnings of storms and floods. In the future, the satellite will send a new image to Earth every two and a half minutes.

·Germany
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New European weather satellite launched into space.

·Vienna, Austria
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The good weather conditions in the European Space Port in Kourou have finally allowed the launch of the new Meteosat satellite. More information: MTG-I2, the Meteosat satellite that ESA will launch this Thursday: scans Europe every 2.5 minutes and detects lightning

·Spain
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A new satellite is being launched tonight. With it, European weather services hope to predict the likelihood of severe weather even better.

·Hilversum, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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The launch of the new third-generation European meteorological satellite Meteosat is scheduled for 9:45 p.m. It will allow meteorologists to more accurately monitor weather developments over Europe, with new images in rapid scan mode every 2.5 minutes.

·Ljubljana, Slovenia
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The Ariane 6 rocket will place in orbit this Thursday, August 27 a new tool for monitoring climate from space, MTG-I2, which will provide more frequent and accurate images, allowing live monitoring of extreme events made more common by global warming.

·Paris, France
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The European Space Agency broke the news in Paris, France on Wednesday, August 26, 2026.
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