MSG 4

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MSG 4 is classified as:

NORAD ID: 40732

Int'l Code: 2015-034A

Perigee: 35,787.9 km

Apogee: 35,800.8 km

Inclination: 1.3 °

Period: 1,436.1 minutes

Semi major axis: 42165 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: July 15, 2015
Source: European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUME)
Launch site: FRENCH GUIANA (FRGUI)

MSG 4 is a geostationary weather satellite, the fourth and last of Eumetsat's Meteosat Second Generation spacecraft made by Thales Alenia Space. The meteorological sentinel is the last in a breed of spin-stabilized satellites made in Europe, a popular design long used for many communications spacecraft until their replacement with more complicated, heavier three-axis stabilized platforms. MSG 4 will go into storage for two-and-a-half years before entering service when aging Meteosat birds are retired. Eumetsat expects MSG 4, which will be renamed Meteosat 11 in the coming months, to operate until at least two third-generation Meteosat platforms are in orbit in the early 2020s.

1 40732U 15034A   24138.88363258  .00000071  00000-0  00000-0 0  9998
2 40732   1.3146  68.3091 0001525 164.8492 330.2507  1.00269533   220

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC