- Earth-watching satellite
- NORAD 23455
- 1994-089A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Sargasso Sea
Orbit ends over the United States of America
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches NOAA 14 go over, but a receiver still asks whether it is above the horizon. Say where you are and this card answers.
Your position is rounded to about a kilometre and sent only to the Orbinauts API, to find the pass.
No brightness has been published for NOAA 14, so it is not a naked-eye satellite and no city page carries pass times for it. Nothing here estimates one.
Seeing it
There is nothing to go outside for: it is too faint for the naked eye. What it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Arctic Ocean LIVE
Where is NOAA 14?
At 6:41:49 PM UTC NOAA 14 was over the Arctic Ocean (79.9° N, 109.6° W), 852 km up, moving at 7.44 km/s and in sunlight.
What is NOAA 14?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 30, 1994.
Can I see NOAA 14?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for NOAA 14, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Martin Marietta Astro Space/East Windsor
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- 980 kg
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Low Earth orbit
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 6:41 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:41 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 79.9° N, 109.6° W
- Altitude
- 852 km
- Speed
- 7.44 km/s (26,770 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:52 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 98.5°
- Orbital period
- 101.8 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.15
- This orbit
- 833 to 848 km
- In shadow
- 23 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,190 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 8:06 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:06 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for NOAA 14, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to NOAA 14 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 1:11 PM, 3 hours old. Only approaches serious enough to be reported publicly are listed: within three days and, for two bodies near the Earth, closer than a kilometre with a chance of a collision above 1 in 10,000, the level at which NASA moves the ISS.
Launched with
NOAA 14 shares its launch, 1994-089, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| NOAA 14 DEB | Debris |
Read from the international designators of the US catalogue: the year and the launch number every piece of one launch shares. A body that has come down is no longer listed.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NOAA 14 | 833 to 848 km | 102 minutes | 980 kg | 1994 |
| Sentinel-5P | 826 to 828 km | 101 minutes | 820 kg | 2017 |
| Suomi NPP | 825 to 829 km | 101 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2011 |
| MetOp-SG A1 | 820 to 821 km | 101 minutes | about 4 t | 2025 |
| Metop-B | 818 to 823 km | 101 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2012 |
| Metop-C | 820 to 821 km | 101 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2018 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 8:06 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "NOAA 14",
"OBJECT_ID": "1994-089A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:06:54.949536",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.14692691,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00101389,
"INCLINATION": 98.5351,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 275.4145,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 35.4451,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 324.7395,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 23455,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 64358,
"BSTAR": 0.000048453268,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 5.2e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}