NOAA 7
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About This Satellite
NOAA-7, launched in June 1981, was a TIROS-N-class polar weather satellite that contributed to the early 1980s global observing system.
Source: Wikipedia — NOAA-7 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
NOAA 7 is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 12553 with international designator 81059A. According to the GCAT master catalog, it was built by RCA, on the Tiros N platform, with a launch mass of about 685 kg, with a shape described as Box + Pan. According to the TLE snapshot used when this page was generated (2026-08-18), its LEO orbit had an apogee of about 849 km and a perigee near 831 km, with an inclination of 98.79° and a period of roughly 101.6 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 7.43 km/s. 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, NOAA 7's apogee was 849 km, where its speed was about 7.43 km/s, completing about 14.2 orbits of Earth per day. Track it live on the map above or in the JOT orbital map.