METEOSAT-10 (MSG-3)
Launch
Launched on Jul 5, 2012 from Ariane Launch Area 3, French Guiana aboard a Ariane 5 ECA.
Ariane 5 ECA | Echostar XVII & MSG-3 →
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 07:15 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
EUMETSAT
Country
EUMETSAT
Manufacturer
Alcatel Space
Launched
Jul 5, 2012
Mass
—
Apogee
35,799 km
Perigee
35,792 km
Inclination
4.86°
Period
23.94 h
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for METEOSAT-10 (MSG-3) across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Raising
Change
+1.3 km
Rate
+0.01 km/day
Now
35792 × 35799 km
Apogee Perigee
Derived from our own archive of CelesTrak orbital elements, sampled every 3 hours. Short windows show drag and station-keeping; they are not a reentry prediction.
Launched with
One other catalogued object still in orbit from launch 2012-035 (Ariane 5 ECA | Echostar XVII & MSG-3).
- ECHOSTAR 17 · 38551
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