METEOSAT-11 (MSG-4)
Launch
Launched on Jul 15, 2015 from Ariane Launch Area 3, French Guiana aboard a Ariane 5 ECA.
Ariane 5 ECA | Star One C4 & MSG 4 →
Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-23 22:06 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
EUMETSAT
Country
EUMETSAT
Manufacturer
Alcatel Space
Launched
Jul 15, 2015
Mass
—
Apogee
35,800 km
Perigee
35,791 km
Inclination
3.52°
Period
23.94 h
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for METEOSAT-11 (MSG-4) across 148 days of archived orbital elements (150 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Raising
Change
+1.6 km
Rate
+0.01 km/day
Now
35791 × 35801 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 2015-034 (Ariane 5 ECA | Star One C4 & MSG 4).
- STAR ONE C4 · 40733
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