03:51 PM EST - COM DEV International : announced that its COM DEV Europe Ltd, subsidiary welcomed the successful launch of Europe's second polar-orbiting weather satellite, MetOp, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, atop a Russian Soyuz launcher. One of the core instruments on the spacecraft called ASCAT features critical technologies developed at COM DEV's Aylesbury facility. COM DEV International
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