NOAA 8
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About This Satellite
NOAA-8, launched in March 1983, was the first NOAA satellite equipped to join the international Cospas-Sarsat search-and-rescue system.
Source: Wikipedia — NOAA-8 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
NOAA 8 is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 13923 with international designator 83022A. According to the GCAT master catalog, it was built by RCA, on the ATN platform, with a launch mass of about 1030 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 811 km and a perigee near 788 km, with an inclination of 98.73° and a period of roughly 100.7 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 7.44 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 8's apogee was 811 km, where its speed was about 7.44 km/s, completing about 14.3 orbits of Earth per day. Track it live on the map above or in the JOT orbital map.