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STARLINK-1781

NORAD 46685· COSPAR 2020-073R· Starlink· LEO
Launch
Launched on Oct 18, 2020 from Launch Complex 39A, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 13
Starlink satellite (representative)
Representative Starlink image · Official SpaceX Photos · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-05 18:35 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
Oct 18, 2020
Mass
Apogee
177 km
Perigee
165 km
Inclination
53.02°
Period
87.8 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-1781 across 101 days of archived orbital elements (103 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Decaying
Change
-193.9 km
Rate
-1.92 km/day
Now
165 × 177 km
266367165May 28Sep 7
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

9 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2020-073 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 13).

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