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STARLINK-1048

NORAD 44753· COSPAR 2019-074AS· Starlink· LEO
Launch
Launched on Nov 11, 2019 from Space Launch Complex 40, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 1
Starlink satellite (representative)
Representative Starlink image · Official SpaceX Photos · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 12:31 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
Nov 11, 2019
Mass
Apogee
347 km
Perigee
340 km
Inclination
53.04°
Period
1.52 h
Part of the Starlink constellation · this satellite is one of 10,866 (planned: 42,000)

SpaceX broadband mega-constellation in LEO. Currently the largest constellation ever flown.

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for STARLINK-1048 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Decaying
Change
-34.2 km
Rate
-0.33 km/day
Now
340 × 347 km
361382340May 28Sep 9
Apogee Perigee

Derived from our own archive of CelesTrak orbital elements, sampled every 3 hours. Short windows show drag and station-keeping; they are not a reentry prediction.

Launched with

13 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2019-074 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 1).

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