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diggan • last Saturday at 2:47 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> edit: Also, I'm now confused about the ESA's claim to be the "first", because

I think you might have misread the title, "Europe’s first [...]"

> Is there a more technical article describing this hyperspectral instrument somewhere?

https://space.oscar.wmo.int/instruments/view/irs has an short overview

Then this document provides an introduction (+ details) about the MTG-IRS program in general: https://user.eumetsat.int/s3/eup-strapi-media/MTG_IRS_L2_ATB...

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perihelions • last Saturday at 2:50 PM

> "I think you might have misread the title,"

No; I'm quoting the esa.int article verbatim. The eumetsat.int article qualifies "...over Europe", but the esa.int does not. I suspect esa.int is just mistaken.

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