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Debris object · NORAD 40872 · COSPAR 2012-035F

MSG-3 DEB [BAFFLE COVER]

InactiveDebrisGEODebris derived
  • Operator EUMETSAT
  • Constellation —
  • Country —

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

8.53°

Period

23.4 h

1,401.6 min

Perigee

34,712km

Apogee

35,504km

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
Debris
Object type
Debris
Radar cross-section
0.0 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • MSG-3 DEB [BAFFLE COVER]Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
EUMETSAT
SATCAT owner code
EUME · EUMETSAT
Country
—

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
05 Jul 2012
COSPAR launch id
2012-035
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
40872
COSPAR / international designator
2012-035F
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JTMGRTQ0TD3R9F2BB7N
Canonical slug
msg-3-deb-baffle-cover-40872

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