Meteosat 6

decommissioned European weather satellite
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Meteosat 6

Summary

Meteosat 6 is a Meteosat First Generation[1].

Key Facts

  • Meteosat 6's image is recorded as EUMETSAT Meteosat model.jpg[2].
  • Meteosat 6's instance of is recorded as Meteosat First Generation[3].
  • Meteosat 6's follows is recorded as Meteosat 5[4].
  • Meteosat 6's followed by is recorded as Meteosat 7[5].
  • Meteosat 6's manufacturer is recorded as Aérospatiale[6].
  • Meteosat 6's COSPAR ID is recorded as 1993-073B[7].
  • Meteosat 6's space launch vehicle is recorded as Ariane 44LP[8].
  • Meteosat 6's SCN is recorded as 22912[9].
  • Meteosat 6's type of orbit is recorded as geostationary orbit[10].
  • Meteosat 6's UTC date of spacecraft launch is recorded as +1993-11-20T00:00:00Z[11].
  • Meteosat 6's service entry is recorded as +1996-10-21T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Meteosat 6's service retirement is recorded as +2011-04-15T00:00:00Z[13].
  • Meteosat 6's significant event is recorded as rocket launch[14].
  • Meteosat 6's significant event is recorded as service entry[15].
  • Meteosat 6's significant event is recorded as service retirement[16].
  • Meteosat 6's space tug is recorded as H10+[17].
  • Meteosat 6's start point is recorded as ELA-2[18].
  • Meteosat 6's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11b6d9hk5r[19].
  • Meteosat 6's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Satellite", "22912"][20].
  • Meteosat 6's NSSDCA ID is recorded as 1993-073B[21].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . space.skyrocket.de. space.skyrocket.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . space.skyrocket.de. space.skyrocket.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . space.skyrocket.de. space.skyrocket.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . eumetsat.int. eumetsat.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . eumetsat.int. eumetsat.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . eumetsat.int. eumetsat.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . eumetsat.int. eumetsat.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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