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Satellite · NORAD 21140 · COSPAR 1991-015B

METEOSAT-5 (MOP-2)

UnknownPayloadGEOWeather derived

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

14.63°

Period

1.0 d

1,462.7 min

Perigee

36,257km

Apogee

36,353km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 10 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
Weather
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Non-operational [-]
Radar cross-section
8.9 m²
Constellation membership derived
Metop / Meteosat via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • METEOSAT-5 (MOP-2)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

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

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
02 Mar 1991
COSPAR launch id
1991-015
Launch site
Guiana Space Centre, Kourou

Objects from the same launch · 15

All objects from launch 1991-015 →

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
21140
COSPAR / international designator
1991-015B
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JPHMZEEK2X1REP5E48C
Canonical slug
meteosat-5-mop-2-21140

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