Summary of the launch of the ESA built Meteosat Second Generation satellite which was launche on board an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guyana on 28 August 2002.
The programme comprises of an A-roll with split track and English commentary and is complimented by a B-roll with clean inernational sound.

0:40
(Countdown and launch sequence live)
1:05
WIth one day of delay, the new generation of European weather satellites, MSG, has been successfully luanched on August 29 from the Kourou spaceport ihn French Guyana.
At a quarter to one o'clock in the night, the Ariane-5 heavy lifter has taken off with two satellites, one of which was the first of the new meteorological satellites for Europe.
36 Minute later, the upper stage has released the satellite into a stable preliminary orbit.
1:44
(clapping hands, enjoying separation)
1:51
At this stage, the European Space OPerations Center, in Darmstadt, Germany, is taking over operations in order to lift the satellite into its final geostationary orbit, 36 000 kilometres above the earth.
2:05
Since 25 years, European Meteosat satellites have been watching the Earth from thatposition, providing meterologists with a permenant flow of images about fronts, clouds, sufgace temperature and water vapour, in the visible and in the infrared spectrum of light.