LANDSAT 7
Operator: United States · Also known as: 1999-020A
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About This Satellite
Landsat 7, launched in April 1999, extends the longest-running Earth-observation program in history. Its ETM+ sensor images the land surface in visible and infrared bands, though a 2003 scan-line failure leaves stripes in many of its images.
Source: Wikipedia — Landsat 7 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
LANDSAT 7 is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 25682 with international designator 99020A. According to the GCAT master catalog, it was built by LMVF, on the Tiros N platform, with a launch mass of about 2101 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 688 km and a perigee near 687 km, with an inclination of 97.86° and a period of roughly 98.4 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 7.51 km/s. It was launched on 1999-04-15. Alternative names include 1999-020A. 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, LANDSAT 7's apogee was 688 km, where its speed was about 7.51 km/s, completing about 14.6 orbits of Earth per day. Track it live on the map above or in the JOT orbital map.