MEV-2

NORAD 46113· COSPAR 2020-056B· Active satellite· Communications· GEO

Launch

Launched on Aug 15, 2020 from Ariane Launch Area 3, French Guiana aboard a Ariane 5 ECA+.

Ariane 5 ECA+ | Galaxy 30, MEV-2 & BSAT-4B →

Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 08:57 UTC

Orbit class

GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)

Operator

United States Government

Country

United States

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Aug 15, 2020

Mass

—

Apogee

35,796 km

Perigee

35,793 km

Inclination

0.05°

Period

23.94 h

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for MEV-2 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Decaying

Change

-2.5 km

Rate

-0.02 km/day

Now

35793 × 35796 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

2 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2020-056 (Ariane 5 ECA+ | Galaxy 30, MEV-2 & BSAT-4B).

BSAT-4B · 46112
GALAXY 30 (WAAS/PRN 135) · 46114

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