NOAA 5
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About This Satellite
NOAA-5, launched in July 1976, served as an operational polar-orbiting weather satellite during the transition from the ITOS design to the TIROS-N generation.
Source: Wikipedia — NOAA-5 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
NOAA 5 is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 9057 with international designator 76077A. According to the GCAT master catalog, it was built by RCA, on the Tiros M platform, with a launch mass of about 340 kg, with a shape described as Box + 2 Pan. According to the TLE snapshot used when this page was generated (2026-08-18), its LEO orbit had an apogee of about 1.530 km and a perigee near 1.516 km, with an inclination of 102.31° and a period of roughly 116.3 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 7.10 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, NOAA 5's apogee was 1.530 km, where its speed was about 7.10 km/s, completing about 12.4 orbits of Earth per day. Track it live on the map above or in the JOT orbital map.