NOAA-15

Part of the NOAA POES series, NOAA-15 has long outlived its design life. Amateur radio enthusiasts worldwide still pull weather imagery directly from its analog broadcast.

Technical specifications

3D model is aproximate

CATEGORY

Weather

TYPE

Earth Observation

COUNTRY

United States

OPERATOR

NOAA

LAUNCH DATE

May 13, 1998

LAUNCH SITE

Vandenberg

ORBIT CLASS

LEO

ALTITUDE · KM

802

ORBITAL PERIOD · MIN

100.9

INCLINATION · DEG

98.51

APOGEE · KM

809

PERIGEE · KM

794

How we source data

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