GALILEO 9 (205)
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About This Satellite
Galileo 9, launched in September 2015, joined the operational Galileo constellation in medium Earth orbit.
GALILEO 9 (205) is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 40889 with international designator 15045A. According to the GCAT master catalog, it was built by OHB, on the GalileoSat platform, with a launch mass of about 733 kg, with a shape described as Box+2 pan. According to the TLE snapshot used when this page was generated (2026-08-18), its MEO orbit had an apogee of about 23.609 km and a perigee near 23.570 km, with an inclination of 54.94° and a period of roughly 860.2 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 3.65 km/s. 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, GALILEO 9 (205)'s apogee was 23.609 km, where its speed was about 3.65 km/s, completing about 1.7 orbits of Earth per day. Track it live on the map above or in the JOT orbital map.