LANDSAT 8
Operator: United States · Also known as: Landsat Data Continuity Mission
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About This Satellite
Landsat 8, launched in February 2013, carries the Operational Land Imager and a thermal infrared sensor. Operating from a Sun-synchronous orbit, it maps agriculture, water use, urban growth, and natural disasters with free, open imagery.
Source: Wikipedia — Landsat 8 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
LANDSAT 8 is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 39084 with international designator 13008A. According to the GCAT master catalog, it was built by OSCGA, on the Leostar-3 platform, with a launch mass of about 2782 kg, with a shape described as Cyl hex + 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 711 km and a perigee near 709 km, with an inclination of 98.23° and a period of roughly 98.8 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 7.50 km/s. It was launched on 2013-02-11. Alternative names include Landsat Data Continuity Mission. 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 8's apogee was 711 km, where its speed was about 7.50 km/s, completing about 14.6 orbits of Earth per day. Track it live on the map above or in the JOT orbital map.