The third unit in Meteosat's second generation of weather satellites has safely made its way into orbit, where it will hover over the line of zero degrees longitude. MSG-3 was launched from Europe's spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre, in French Guiana on 5 July at 22:36 BST. 34 minutes into its flight, it was released from its booster rockets into an elliptical transfer orbit.  By: Duncan Geere, Edited by: Nate Lanxon Continue reading... - daniel