Debris object · NORAD 40871 · COSPAR 2012-035E
MSG-3 DEB [COOLER COVER]
- Operator EUMETSAT
- Constellation —
- Country —
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
9.90°
Period
23.6 h
1,418.4 min
Perigee
35,357km
Apogee
35,523km
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
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- Radar cross-section
- 0.0 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- MSG-3 DEB [COOLER COVER]Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- EUMETSAT
- SATCAT owner code
- EUME · EUMETSAT
- Country
- —
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 05 Jul 2012
- COSPAR launch id
- 2012-035
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 5
- ARIANE 5 DEB [SYLDA]38554DebrisInactive
- MSG-3 DEB [BAFFLE COVER]40872DebrisInactive
- ECHOSTAR 1738551PayloadActive
- METEOSAT-10 (MSG-3)38552PayloadActive
- ARIANE 5 R/B38553Rocket bodyInactive
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
Transparency
Sources & provenance
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
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 40871
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2012-035E
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JTMGRTQ0TD3R9F2BB7M
- Canonical slug
- msg-3-deb-cooler-cover-40871
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.