Landsat 2

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/7615

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • LANDSAT 2
  • NORAD 7615
  • 1975-004A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Landsat 2 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Antarctica

Orbit ends over Antarctica

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Landsat 2 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 Landsat 2, 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 Landsat 2?

At 5:35:29 PM UTC Landsat 2 was over Australia (18.6° S, 130.8° E), 910 km up, moving at 7.4 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Landsat 2?

A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 22, 1975.

Can I see Landsat 2?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Landsat 2, 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
953 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
5:35 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:35 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
18.6° S, 130.8° E
Altitude
910 km
Speed
7.4 km/s (26,629 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 5:40 PM UTC
Inclination
99.1°
Orbital period
103.1 minutes
Orbits per day
13.97
This orbit
896 to 907 km
In shadow
28 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,280 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:02 AM, 9 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:02 AM, 9 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Landsat 2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Landsat 2 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

Landsat 2 shares its launch, 1975-004, with 32 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
DELTA 1 R/BRocket body
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEB *Debris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris

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
Landsat 2896 to 907 km103 minutes953 kg1975
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, 8:02 AM, 9 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "LANDSAT 2",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1975-004A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:02:53.039904",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.9698745,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00077958,
  "INCLINATION": 99.0615,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 265.2184,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 275.9649,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 84.0625,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 7615,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 63925,
  "BSTAR": -0.00012979777,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000225,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}