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The next-generation of Europe's polar orbiting weather satellites will fly in a two-spacecraft configuration.

The present EPS has so far launched just the one platform, Metop-A, which went into space in 2006.
Two reserve satellites, Metop-B and Metop-C, are built and held in storage. They are likely to fly in 2012 and 2016 to give continuity to the programme.
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