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STARLINK-1068

NORAD 44772· COSPAR 2019-074BM· 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 2026-09-28 08:50 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
Nov 11, 2019
Mass
—
Apogee
163 km
Perigee
156 km
Inclination
53.02°
Period
87.5 min
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-1068 across 123 days of archived orbital elements (125 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Decaying
Change
-196.4 km
Rate
-1.59 km/day
Now
156 × 163 km
257358156May 28Sep 29
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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