Geostationary
METEOSAT-10 (MSG-3)
Geostationary Weather · EUMETSAT / ESA
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Europe's rapid-scan weather satellite images Europe every 5 minutes during severe events — switching to 2.5-minute scans during crises. That extra temporal resolution gives meteorologists the frames needed to issue life-saving warnings with enough lead time for evacuation during flash floods and severe thunderstorm outbreaks.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,239–22,244 mi (35,790–35,798 km)
- Inclination
- 4.9°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 38552
- Int’l designator
- 2012-035B
- Launched
- 2012
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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