MetOp-B

MetOp-B carries a suite of sounders and imagers in a morning sun-synchronous orbit, supplying the European contribution to the international polar weather-monitoring system.

Technical specifications

3D model is aproximate

CATEGORY

Weather

TYPE

Earth Observation

COUNTRY

Europe (EUMETSAT)

OPERATOR

EUMETSAT

LAUNCH DATE

Sep 17, 2012

LAUNCH SITE

Baikonur Cosmodrome

ORBIT CLASS

LEO

ALTITUDE · KM

820

ORBITAL PERIOD · MIN

101.31

INCLINATION · DEG

98.65

APOGEE · KM

822

PERIGEE · KM

819

How we source data

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