Satellite
Metop-C
Europe’s polar-orbiting weather satellite: its soundings of temperature and humidity are among the data that improve forecasts the most worldwide.
- Catalogue name
- METOP-C
- NORAD ID
- 43689
- Owner
- EUMETSAT
- Launched
- November 7, 2018
- Altitude (perigee – apogee)
- 827 – 828 km
- Orbital period
- 101.3 min
- Inclination
- 98.7°