NORAD 29499
METOP-A
Time
- Local time
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Position
- Latitude
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- Longitude
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- Altitude
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Speed
- Miles per hour
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- Kilometers per second
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From your location
- Azimuth
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- Elevation
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- Right ascension
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- Declination
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- Local sidereal time
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 29499
- International designator
- 2006-044A
- Launch date
- Oct 19, 2006
- Launch site
- TYURATAM MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 137.100 MHz · LRPT137.9125 MHz · LRPT465.9875 MHz · BPSK PMT-A3
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1,544.500 MHz · BPSK1,701.300 MHz · AHRPT1,707.000 MHz · AHRPT2,230.000 MHz · PSK - Beacon
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- Mode
- AHRPT, BPSK, BPSK PMT-A3, LRPT, PSK
Active transmitters from SatNOGS DB, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Your station
- Grid locator
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Live
- Azimuth
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- Elevation
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- Range
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- Range rate
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- Naked-eye visibility
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- Sub-satellite grid
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- Footprint diameter
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Upcoming passes
Next 48 h · your local timeUse your location to predict passes.
Mutual visibility
With another station · next 48 hUse your location to find mutual windows.
Transmitters
Nominal · add location for DopplerLRPT 1
Transmitter · LRPT
- Downlink
- 137.100 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
- 72
LRPT 9
Transmitter · LRPT
- Downlink
- 137.9125 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
- 72
ARGOS-3 A-DCS
Transmitter · BPSK PMT-A3
- Downlink
- 465.9875 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
- 800
Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-10-18 06:51:14 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
About METOP-A
METOP-A is a satellite from EUME, launched on Oct 19, 2006 from Tyuratam Missile and Space Complex.
It circles Earth every 98 minutes (14.8 times a day), between 519 and 763 km up, on an orbit tilted 98.3° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 82° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
MetOp-A · decommissioned European meteorology satellite
- Operated by
- EUMETSAT
- Built by
- Space Systems
- Mass
- 3,769 kg
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 366 days its lowest point went from 521 km to 519 km. Sudden rises are engine burns that lift the orbit; slow declines are drag from the thin upper atmosphere.
From Space-Track element sets, one point a day.