METOP-B
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MetOp-B, launched in September 2012, is Europe's second polar-orbiting meteorological satellite. Flying in the morning orbit, it feeds temperature and humidity soundings into global weather models.
Source: Wikipedia — MetOp (CC BY-SA 4.0)
METOP-B is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 38771 with international designator 12049A. According to the GCAT master catalog, it was built by EADSB, on the Metop platform, with a launch mass of about 4086 kg, with a shape described as Box + panel. It is operated by ESA. According to the TLE snapshot used when this page was generated (2026-08-18), its LEO orbit had an apogee of about 830 km and a perigee near 825 km, with an inclination of 98.65° and a period of roughly 101.3 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 7.44 km/s. It was launched on 2012-09-17. Positions on this page are near-real-time SGP4 predictions propagated from the latest two-line element (TLE) data.
In the TLE snapshot used to generate this page, METOP-B's apogee was 830 km, where its speed was about 7.44 km/s, completing about 14.2 orbits of Earth per day. Track it live on the map above or in the JOT orbital map.