LES 5
Operator: United States · Also known as: Lincoln Experimental Satellite 5
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About This Satellite
LES 5 is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 2866 with international designator 67066E. According to the GCAT master catalog, it was built by MITLL, on the LES platform, with a launch mass of about 102 kg, with a shape described as Cyl. It is associated with US. According to the TLE snapshot used when this page was generated (2026-08-18), its Inclined GSO orbit had an apogee of about 33.613 km and a perigee near 33.204 km, with an inclination of 2.76° and a period of roughly 1316 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 3.15 km/s. It was launched on 1967-07-01. Alternative names include Lincoln Experimental Satellite 5. 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, LES 5's apogee was 33.613 km, where its speed was about 3.15 km/s, completing about 1.1 orbits of Earth per day. Track it live on the map above or in the JOT orbital map.