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Rocket body · NORAD 20837 · COSPAR 1981-057F

METEOSAT-2 AKM (MAGE 1)

InactiveRocket bodyGEORocket body derived

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

7.39°

Period

1.0 d

1,449.2 min

Perigee

35,726km

Apogee

36,358km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 8 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Rocket body
Object type
Rocket body
Radar cross-section
1.0 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • METEOSAT-2 AKM (MAGE 1)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
European Space Agency
SATCAT owner code
ESA · European Space Agency
Country
—

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
19 Jun 1981
COSPAR launch id
1981-057
Launch site
Guiana Space Centre, Kourou

Objects from the same launch · 6

Change log

History

No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.

Regulatory

UN registration

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources →

No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.

Field provenance

No field-level provenance recorded.

Timeline

Events

All events →

No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.

Reference

Identifiers

NORAD catalogue number
20837
COSPAR / international designator
1981-057F
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JPFZ9DAD0HC7HJV006X
Canonical slug
meteosat-2-akm-mage-1-20837

Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Rocket body) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.