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STARLINK-1185

NORAD 45087· COSPAR 2020-006AV· Starlink· LEO
Launch
Launched on Jan 29, 2020 from Space Launch Complex 40, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 3
Starlink satellite (representative)
Representative Starlink image · Official SpaceX Photos · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-09 18:28 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
Jan 29, 2020
Mass
Apogee
407 km
Perigee
405 km
Inclination
53.15°
Period
1.54 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-1185 across 104 days of archived orbital elements (106 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Decaying
Change
-33.6 km
Rate
-0.32 km/day
Now
405 × 407 km
424443405May 28Sep 10
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

16 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2020-006 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 3).

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