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METOP-A

In orbit NORAD 29499 GVNJ-7390-8100-5940-4823

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decommissioned European meteorology satellite

Mission information
Spacecraft name
METOP-A
Mass
4085.0 kg
Website
https://www.eumetsat.int/our-satellites/metop-series
Status
Active
The satellite is in orbit
Launch and timeline
Launch time
Separation time
Satellite appearance

Credit: NASA Public domain source

Data for the last 30 days
Orbital parameters of the satellite
Perigee
515.95 km
Apogee
760.33 km
Inclination
98.3°
Period
97.5 min
Semi-major axis
7016.3 km
Velocity
7.66 km/s
Orbital elements
TLE source
Space-Track.org
TLE updated
2026-10-08 08:46:42 UTC
Two-line elements (TLE)
1 29499U 06044A   26280.93822600  .00000986  00000-0  11835-3 0  9999
2 29499  98.3409  31.2448 0174154  69.9858  79.1761 14.76284246 42086
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Orbit history, past year

Mean elements of every TLE set over the past 365 days, plotted against the epoch of the set. Each source is its own line; click it in the legend to hide it. A jump in altitude is a manoeuvre or a bad set; lines drifting apart are a disagreement between sources. “TLE age” is how many hours have passed since the epoch of the source's freshest set, plotted against when the set reached us, on a logarithmic scale. A set the source repeats unchanged does not reset the age.

Prediction divergence

Each TLE set is propagated with SGP4 to the epoch of the next set from the same source and compared with it, plotted against the epoch of the next set; the tooltip shows how many hours ahead the prediction ran. The logarithmic scale shows the size of the divergence and the tooltip its sign: plus along-track means the prediction is ahead of the satellite. This is how well the sets agree, not the true error: the reference is a TLE too, off by about a kilometre. An outlier is a manoeuvre between sets. Sets more than a week apart are not compared.

Time of closest approach, UTC Object 1 Object 2 Distance, km Speed, km/s Max. probability
2026-10-11 02:55:44 DOORY-SAT
NORAD 58500 		METOP-A
NORAD 29499 		4.697 8.67 1.7e-07
2026-10-12 19:22:14 PLATFORM-6
NORAD 100611 		METOP-A
NORAD 29499 		4.544 4.76 2.0e-07
2026-10-13 11:50:12 KUIPER-00252
NORAD 67157 		METOP-A
NORAD 29499 		1.066 13.88 1.9e-06
2026-10-13 14:57:56 STARLINK-36061
NORAD 66847 		METOP-A
NORAD 29499 		1.686 12.42 3.0e-05
2026-10-13 17:55:56 SHIJIAN-30B (SJ-30B)
NORAD 66546 		METOP-A
NORAD 29499 		2.016 8.54 9.2e-07
2026-10-13 20:36:06 FORMOSAT-5
NORAD 42920 		METOP-A
NORAD 29499 		3.523 4.79 3.4e-07
2026-10-14 13:44:18 STARLINK-5953
NORAD 56799 		METOP-A
NORAD 29499 		4.018 12.86 5.0e-06
2026-10-14 13:50:31 GEESAT-6 10
NORAD 65722 		METOP-A
NORAD 29499 		4.880 10.28 1.4e-07
2026-10-15 12:27:22 ESEO
NORAD 43792 		METOP-A
NORAD 29499 		1.723 9.52 1.2e-06
2026-10-15 18:13:20 SAUDICOMSAT 5
NORAD 31124 		METOP-A
NORAD 29499 		1.428 13.57 1.1e-06
2026-10-16 02:29:53 KUIPER-00187
NORAD 67141 		METOP-A
NORAD 29499 		4.058 14.06 1.3e-07

Data: CelesTrak SOCRATES Plus, computed from TLEs of the public catalog. This is an estimate, not grounds for a manoeuvre: TLEs carry no covariance, and the maximum probability assumes a position error.

All conjunctions of this satellite