GOES 7
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About This Satellite
GOES 7, launched in February 1987, outlasted its design life by many years, serving as the sole operational GOES for a time and later relaying communications in the Pacific.
GOES 7 is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 17561 with international designator 87022A. According to the GCAT master catalog, it was built by HSES, on the HS-371 platform, with a launch mass of about 456 kg, with a shape described as Cyl + Ant. According to the TLE snapshot used when this page was generated (2026-08-18), its Inclined GSO orbit had an apogee of about 35.905 km and a perigee near 35.887 km, with an inclination of 12.87° and a period of roughly 1441.3 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 3.07 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, GOES 7's apogee was 35.905 km, where its speed was about 3.07 km/s, completing about 1.0 orbits of Earth per day. Track it live on the map above or in the JOT orbital map.