Weather · NORAD 43013
Polar-orbiting operational weather satellite. Carries the VIIRS imager that produces the nighttime lights composites.
| Operator | NOAA |
| Launched | 2017-11-18 |
| Approx. altitude | 824 km |
| Inclination | 98.7° |
| NORAD catalog id | 43013 |
The current two-line element set for this object is served from Ephem's cache at:
GET · https://ephem-api.YOUR-SUBDOMAIN.workers.dev/v1/objects/43013
curl -s https://ephem-api.YOUR-SUBDOMAIN.workers.dev/v1/objects/43013 \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ek_live_..."Cached 1 h. Backed by the CelesTrak active catalog, refreshed nightly.
NOAA 20 is included in the nightly SGP4 propagation that produces Ephem's debris density feed. Its sub-satellite point at any moment can be computed client-side from the TLE using standard SGP4 (the same code path the overhead map uses in your browser).