LANDSAT 9
Operator: United States · Also known as: 2021-088A
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About This Satellite
Landsat 9, launched in September 2021, is nearly identical to Landsat 8 and flies eight days out of phase with it, cutting the repeat imaging cycle of the program to eight days. Its sensors continue five decades of uninterrupted land observation.
Source: Wikipedia — Landsat 9 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
LANDSAT 9 is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 49260 with international designator 21088A. According to the GCAT master catalog, it was built by NGISGA, on the Leostar-3 platform, with a launch mass of about 2710 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 98.22° and a period of roughly 98.8 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 7.50 km/s. It was launched on 2021-09-27. Alternative names include 2021-088A. 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 9'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.