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Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched

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216 points diggan | 2 comments | 05 Jul 25 14:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.416s | source
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ArneVogel ◴[05 Jul 25 14:25 UTC] No.44473027[source]▶
I think this is the first time I have seen the .int tld used.
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1. rsynnott ◴[06 Jul 25 12:41 UTC] No.44480291[source]▶
Probably the most appropriate one. The ESA is not quite part of the EU and has non-EU member states (including _Canada_), so .eu would be inappropriate (the EU is itself a member of ESA, but most EU member states are also members in their own right.)
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2. petre ◴[06 Jul 25 16:20 UTC] No.44482017[source]▶
The joke goes that thanx to Trump, Canada might actually join the EU.