STARLINK-1559
NORAD 46077· COSPAR 2020-055BC· Starlink· LEO
Launch
Launched on Aug 7, 2020 from Launch Complex 39A, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 9 →
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 19:51 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
Aug 7, 2020
Mass
—
Apogee
435 km
Perigee
431 km
Inclination
53.02°
Period
1.55 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-1559 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Decaying
Change
-28.7 km
Rate
-0.28 km/day
Now
431 × 435 km
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
33 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2020-055 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 9).
- STARLINK-1522 · 46027
- STARLINK-1540 · 46051
- STARLINK-1543 · 46053
- STARLINK-1548 · 46054
- STARLINK-1554 · 46055
- STARLINK-1564 · 46058
- STARLINK-1570 · 46059
- STARLINK-1572 · 46060
- STARLINK-1573 · 46061
- STARLINK-1577 · 46063
- STARLINK-1583 · 46064
- STARLINK-1525 · 46066
- STARLINK-1536 · 46070
- STARLINK-1542 · 46073
- STARLINK-1549 · 46074
- STARLINK-1523 · 46028
- STARLINK-1551 · 46075
- STARLINK-1552 · 46076
- STARLINK-1566 · 46079
- STARLINK-1568 · 46080
- STARLINK-1578 · 46082
- STARLINK-1579 · 46083
- STARLINK-1526 · 46029
- STARLINK-1555 · 46032
…and 9 more from this launch.
Sources & further reading
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