Skip to content
SatelliteIndex

Satellite · NORAD 25338 · COSPAR 1998-030A

NOAA 15

UnknownPayloadLEOWeather derived

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

98.51°

Period

100.9 min

100.9 min

Perigee

793km

Apogee

809km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 8 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Weather
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Non-operational [-]
Radar cross-section
5.3 m²
Constellation membership derived
NOAA POES / JPSS via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Aliases

  • NOAA 15Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
NOAA
SATCAT owner code
US · United States
Country
United States US

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
13 May 1998
COSPAR launch id
1998-030
Launch site
Vandenberg Space Force Base (Western Range), California

Objects from the same launch

No other catalogued object is linked to this launch.

Change log

History

No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.

Regulatory

UN registration

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources →

No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.

Field provenance

No field-level provenance recorded.

Timeline

Events

All events →

No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.

Reference

Identifiers

NORAD catalogue number
25338
COSPAR / international designator
1998-030A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQ8NATWHF74HXNN5FSS
Canonical slug
noaa-15-25338

Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Weather) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.