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Satellite · NORAD 29499 · COSPAR 2006-044A

METOP-A

UnknownPayloadLEOWeather derived

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

98.34°

Period

97.6 min

97.6 min

Perigee

519km

Apogee

763km

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
Weather
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Non-operational [-]
Radar cross-section
11.2 m²
Constellation membership derived
Metop / Meteosat via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Aliases

  • METOP-ACelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
EUMETSAT
SATCAT owner code
EUME · EUMETSAT
Country
—

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
19 Oct 2006
COSPAR launch id
2006-044
Launch site
Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)

Objects from the same launch · 1

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
29499
COSPAR / international designator
2006-044A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQZXWENWV0EEATTWTSQ
Canonical slug
metop-a-29499

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.