Weather · NORAD 40069

Meteosat-11

Name: Meteosat-11 — orbital elements
Creator: Ephem
License: https://ephem.pages.dev/terms

Geostationary weather satellite over 0°. Full-disk imagery every 15 minutes; the source of the familiar European forecast loops.

§1 Vitals

Operator	EUMETSAT
Launched	2015-07-15
Approx. altitude	35,786 km
Inclination	0.1°
NORAD catalog id	40069

§2 Live orbital elements

The current two-line element set for this object is served from Ephem's cache at:

GET · https://ephem-api.YOUR-SUBDOMAIN.workers.dev/v1/objects/40069

curl -s https://ephem-api.YOUR-SUBDOMAIN.workers.dev/v1/objects/40069 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ek_live_..."

Cached 1 h. Backed by the CelesTrak active catalog, refreshed nightly.

§3 What Ephem does with this object

Meteosat-11 is included in the nightly SGP4 propagation that produces Ephem's debris density feed. Its sub-satellite point at any moment can be computed client-side from the TLE using standard SGP4 (the same code path the overhead map uses in your browser).

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