NOAA 19
Operator: United States · Also known as: NOAA-N Prime
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About This Satellite
NOAA-19, launched in February 2009, was the last of the POES weather satellites. It continues to deliver global imagery and atmospheric sounding data from a Sun-synchronous polar orbit, and it hosts a search-and-rescue repeater for the Cospas-Sarsat network.
Source: Wikipedia — NOAA-19 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
NOAA 19 is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 33591 with international designator 09005A. According to the GCAT master catalog, it was built by LMSS, on the ATN platform, with a launch mass of about 1420 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 864 km and a perigee near 845 km, with an inclination of 98.95° and a period of roughly 101.9 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 7.42 km/s. It was launched on 2009-02-06. Alternative names include NOAA-N Prime. 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 19's apogee was 864 km, where its speed was about 7.42 km/s, completing about 14.1 orbits of Earth per day. Track it live on the map above or in the JOT orbital map.