Earth science · NORAD 49260
Landsat 9 flies eight days out of phase with Landsat 8, giving an effective 8-day global coverage.
| Operator | NASA/USGS |
| Launched | 2021-09-27 |
| Approx. altitude | 705 km |
| Inclination | 98.2° |
| NORAD catalog id | 49260 |
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/49260
curl -s https://ephem-api.YOUR-SUBDOMAIN.workers.dev/v1/objects/49260 \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ek_live_..."Cached 1 h. Backed by the CelesTrak active catalog, refreshed nightly.
Landsat 9 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).