ERTS 1

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/6126

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • LANDSAT 1 (ERTS 1)
  • NORAD 6126
  • 1972-058A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where ERTS 1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches ERTS 1 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 ERTS 1, 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 the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is ERTS 1?

At 5:36:56 PM UTC ERTS 1 was over the Pacific Ocean (37° S, 154.4° W), 910 km up, moving at 7.4 km/s and in sunlight.

What is ERTS 1?

A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Jul 23, 1972.

Can I see ERTS 1?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for ERTS 1, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
State
United States of America
Built by
GE Missiles and Space Vehicles Division (MSVD)
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Launched
Mass
891 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
5:36 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:36 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
37° S, 154.4° W
Altitude
910 km
Speed
7.4 km/s (26,636 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 6:16 PM UTC
Inclination
99.3°
Orbital period
103 minutes
Orbits per day
13.98
This orbit
893 to 904 km
In shadow
12 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,280 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 1:07 AM, 16 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 1:07 AM, 16 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for ERTS 1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to ERTS 1 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

ERTS 1 shares its launch, 1972-058, with 39 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
DELTA 1 R/BRocket body
DELTA 1 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
ERTS 1893 to 904 km103 minutes891 kg1972
Sentinel-5P826 to 828 km101 minutes820 kg2017
Suomi NPP825 to 829 km101 minutesabout 2.1 t2011
MetOp-SG A1820 to 821 km101 minutesabout 4 t2025
Metop-B818 to 823 km101 minutesabout 4.1 t2012
Metop-C820 to 821 km101 minutesabout 4.1 t2018

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 1:07 AM, 16 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "LANDSAT 1 (ERTS 1)",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1972-058A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T01:07:05.673216",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.97848859,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00074453,
  "INCLINATION": 99.3238,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 344.1132,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 219.6693,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 140.3926,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 6126,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 76805,
  "BSTAR": -0.000075295227,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000153,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}