- Earth-watching satellite
- NORAD 65159
- 2025-172A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Laptev Sea
Orbit ends over Russia
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches MetOp-SG A1 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 MetOp-SG A1, 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.
Altitude
One reading a day, worked out from the elements Space-Track publishes.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched on Ariane 6 from Kourou. Source
Summary
Over the United States of America LIVE
Where is MetOp-SG A1?
At 3:04:33 AM UTC MetOp-SG A1 was over the United States of America (47.6° N, 93.5° W), 827 km up, moving at 7.44 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is MetOp-SG A1?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 13, 2025.
Can I see MetOp-SG A1?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for MetOp-SG A1, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Launched
- Rocket
- Ariane 6
- Watches
- The whole Earth: temperature and humidity through the atmosphere, clouds and aerosols, and with Copernicus Sentinel-5 the gases that affect air quality
- Full picture of the Earth
- Every day, and more often near the poles
- Operator
- EUMETSAT, Europe’s meteorological satellite agency, with Sentinel-5 for the EU’s Copernicus programme
- Role
- Still in commissioning, its instruments entering service one by one since May 2026, before it takes over as the lead satellite of Europe’s polar system
- Mass
- about 4 t
- Typical altitude
- 820 to 821 km
- Speed
- about 7.44 km/s (26,800 km/h)
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 3:04 AM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 3:04 AM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 47.6° N, 93.5° W
- Altitude
- 827 km
- Speed
- 7.44 km/s (26,798 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 3:10 AM UTC
- Inclination
- 98.7°
- Orbital period
- 101.3 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.21
- This orbit
- 817 to 818 km
- In shadow
- 31 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,150 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 2, 2026, 9:57 AM, 17 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 2, 2026, 9:57 AM, 17 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for MetOp-SG A1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to MetOp-SG A1 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
- Losing to drag
- MetOp-SG A1 has not fallen measurably over the last 48 days of samples.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 2, 2026, 1:53 PM, 13 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.
The MetOp-SG programme
Orbinauts tracks no other satellite of the programme.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 2, 2026, 9:57 AM, 17 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "METOP SG-A",
"OBJECT_ID": "2025-172A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-02T09:57:23.535072",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.21473064,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.0001197,
"INCLINATION": 98.7377,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 3.961,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 107.1165,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 253.0143,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 65159,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 6342,
"BSTAR": 0.000024384,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 9e-8,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}