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METEOR-M 2
Polar Weather · Roscosmos / Roshydromet
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Russia's Meteor-M No.2 tracks cloud imagery, sea surface temperature, ozone, and Earth's radiation budget across the Arctic. It monitors sea ice changes in the Northern Sea Route — the increasingly navigable shipping corridor through Russia's north that climate change is opening, and that Russia is actively developing as a commercial alternative to the Suez Canal.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 509–515 mi (820–830 km)
- Inclination
- 98.5°
- One orbit
- 101.2 minutes14.2 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 40069
- Int’l designator
- 2014-037A
- Launched
- 2014
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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