NOAA 15
Operator: United States · Also known as: NOAA-K
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NOAA-15 is a polar-orbiting weather satellite launched in May 1998. It carries the AVHRR imager and sounding instruments that map clouds, sea-surface temperature, and atmospheric profiles, and it also relays distress signals from emergency beacons worldwide.
Source: Wikipedia — NOAA-15 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
NOAA 15 is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 25338 with international designator 98030A. According to the GCAT master catalog, it was built by LMEW, on the ATN platform, with a launch mass of about 1412 kg, with a shape described as Box + Pan. It is associated with US. According to the TLE snapshot used when this page was generated (2026-08-18), its LEO orbit had an apogee of about 816 km and a perigee near 801 km, with an inclination of 98.51° and a period of roughly 100.9 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 7.44 km/s. It was launched on 1998-05-13. Alternative names include NOAA-K. 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 15's apogee was 816 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.