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STARLINK-1276

NORAD 45368· COSPAR 2020-019J· Starlink· LEO
Launch
Launched on Mar 18, 2020 from Launch Complex 39A, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 5 →
Starlink satellite (representative)
Representative Starlink image · Official SpaceX Photos · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-24 03:33 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
Mar 18, 2020
Mass
—
Apogee
517 km
Perigee
513 km
Inclination
53.07°
Period
1.58 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-1276 across 96 days of archived orbital elements (97 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Decaying
Change
-9.4 km
Rate
-0.10 km/day
Now
513 × 517 km
520527513Jul 20Oct 24
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

29 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2020-019 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 5).

…and 5 more from this launch.

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