MEV-1
Launch
Launched on Oct 9, 2019 from 200/39 (200L), Kazakhstan aboard a Proton-M Briz-M.
Proton-M/Briz-M | Eutelsat 5 West B & MEV-1 →Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-15 13:36 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
United States Government
Country
United States
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Oct 9, 2019
Mass
—
Apogee
35,812 km
Perigee
35,777 km
Inclination
0.82°
Period
23.94 h
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for MEV-1 across 90 days of archived orbital elements (66 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Decaying
Change
-1.1 km
Rate
-0.01 km/day
Now
35777 × 35812 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 2019-067 (Proton-M/Briz-M | Eutelsat 5 West B & MEV-1).
- EUTELSAT 5 WEST B (EGN*) · 44624
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