Meteosat 10

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  • Earth-watching satellite
  • METEOSAT 10 (MSG 3)
  • NORAD 38552
  • 2012-035B
  • Inclined geosynchronous

Current orbit

Where Meteosat 10 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Meteosat 10 go over, but a receiver still asks whether it is above the horizon. Say where you are and this card answers.

Your position is rounded to about a kilometre and sent only to the Orbinauts API, to find the pass.

No brightness has been published for Meteosat 10, so it is not a naked-eye satellite and no city page carries pass times for it. Nothing here estimates one.

Seeing it

There is nothing to go outside for: it is too faint for the naked eye. What it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is Meteosat 10?

At 5:33:42 PM UTC Meteosat 10 was over the Atlantic Ocean (4.7° S, 0.2° E), 35,784 km up, moving at 3.08 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Meteosat 10?

A satellite that watches the Earth in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Jul 5, 2012.

Can I see Meteosat 10?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Meteosat 10, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
European Meteorological Satellite Organization
State
European Meteorological Satellite Organization
Built by
Thales Alenia Space
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Launched
Mass
about 2 t
Operating
Yes
Orbit class
Inclined geosynchronous

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
5:33 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:33 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
4.7° S, 0.2° E
Altitude
35,784 km
Speed
3.08 km/s (11,070 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
5°
Orbital period
1,436.1 minutes
Orbits per day
1
This orbit
35,782 to 35,793 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 7,940 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 2:24 AM, 15 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 2:24 AM, 15 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Meteosat 10, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Meteosat 10 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 1:11 PM, 3 hours old. Only approaches serious enough to be reported publicly are listed: within three days and, for two bodies near the Earth, closer than a kilometre with a chance of a collision above 1 in 10,000, the level at which NASA moves the ISS.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

Meteosat 10 shares its launch, 2012-035, with 4 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
ECHOSTAR 17Communications satellite
ARIANE 5 R/BRocket body
ARIANE 5 DEB (SYLDA)Debris
MSG 3 DEB (COOLER COVER)Debris

Read from the international designators of the US catalogue: the year and the launch number every piece of one launch shares. A body that has come down is no longer listed.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Meteosat 1035,782 to 35,793 km1,436 minutesabout 2 t2012
GOES-1935,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5 t2024
Meteosat-1235,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3.8 t2022
Meteosat-1135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 2 t2015
GOES-1635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.2 t2016
GOES-1735,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.2 t2018

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 2:24 AM, 15 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "METEOSAT 10 (MSG 3)",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2012-035B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T02:24:31.821120",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 1.00271929,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00013166,
  "INCLINATION": 5.0102,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 60.2112,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 187.8343,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 195.6533,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 38552,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 5230,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 1e-8,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}