NORAD 16969
NOAA 10
Time
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Position
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Speed
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From your location
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- Local sidereal time
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 16969
- International designator
- 1986-073A
- Launch date
- Sep 17, 1986
- Launch site
- AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
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- Beacon
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- Mode
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Active transmitters from SatNOGS DB, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Your station
- Grid locator
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Live
- Azimuth
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- Elevation
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- Range
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- Range rate
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- Naked-eye visibility
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- Sub-satellite grid
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- Footprint diameter
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Upcoming passes
Next 48 h · your local timeUse your location to predict passes.
Mutual visibility
With another station · next 48 hUse your location to find mutual windows.
Transmitters
Nominal · add location for Doppler-
Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-10-26 05:12:04 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Its orbit in 3D
Goes round Earth once every 101 minutes, on an orbit tilted 98.7° from the equator, between 800 and 829 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About NOAA 10
NOAA 10 is a satellite from the United States, launched on Sep 17, 1986 from Air Force Western Test Range.
It circles Earth every 101 minutes (14.3 times a day), between 786 and 803 km up, on an orbit tilted 98.7° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 81° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
NOAA-10 · American weather satellite
Wikipedia article ↗ · Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 365 days its lowest point went from 787 km to 786 km. Sudden rises are engine burns that lift the orbit; slow declines are drag from the thin upper atmosphere.
From Space-Track element sets, one point a day.