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Satellite · NORAD 27509 · COSPAR 2002-040B

METEOSAT-8 (MSG-1)

UnknownPayloadGEOWeather derived

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

11.42°

Period

1.0 d

1,470.9 min

Perigee

36,406km

Apogee

36,522km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 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
2.7 m²
Constellation membership derived
Metop / Meteosat via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • METEOSAT-8 (MSG-1)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
EUMETSAT
SATCAT owner code
EUME · EUMETSAT
Country
—

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
28 Aug 2002
COSPAR launch id
2002-040
Launch site
Guiana Space Centre, Kourou

Objects from the same launch · 5

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
27509
COSPAR / international designator
2002-040B
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQMHB8T2M1HBKTP6K5Z
Canonical slug
meteosat-8-msg-1-27509

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.