NOAA 17

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/27453

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • NORAD 27453
  • 2002-032A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where NOAA 17 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Southern Ocean

Orbit ends over the Southern Ocean

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches NOAA 17 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 17, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Australia LIVE

Where is NOAA 17?

At 6:42:13 PM UTC NOAA 17 was over Australia (15.4° S, 129.5° E), 812 km up, moving at 7.45 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is NOAA 17?

A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 24, 2002.

Can I see NOAA 17?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for NOAA 17, 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
Lockheed Martin/East Windsor
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Launched
Mass
about 1.4 t
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
6:42 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:42 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
15.4° S, 129.5° E
Altitude
812 km
Speed
7.45 km/s (26,806 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 6:42 PM UTC
Inclination
98.9°
Orbital period
101 minutes
Orbits per day
14.26
This orbit
794 to 809 km
In shadow
19 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,130 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:00 AM, 12 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:00 AM, 12 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for NOAA 17, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to NOAA 17 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.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

NOAA 17 shares its launch, 2002-032, with 50 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
NOAA 17 DEBDebris
NOAA 17 DEBDebris
NOAA 17 DEBDebris
NOAA 17 DEBDebris
NOAA 17 DEBDebris
NOAA 17 DEBDebris
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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

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
NOAA 17794 to 809 km101 minutesabout 1.4 t2002
Sentinel-3A802 to 804 km101 minutesabout 1.2 t2016
Sentinel-3B802 to 804 km101 minutesabout 1.2 t2018
Sentinel-2A788 to 790 km101 minutesabout 1.1 t2015
Sentinel-2B788 to 790 km101 minutesabout 1.1 t2017
Sentinel-2C788 to 790 km101 minutesabout 1.1 t2024

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 6:00 AM, 12 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "NOAA 17",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2002-032A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:00:13.904352",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.26282967,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00107062,
  "INCLINATION": 98.8869,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 279.9228,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 297.1743,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 62.8344,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 27453,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 26752,
  "BSTAR": 0.00010910148,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000216,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}