STARLINK-1797
NORAD 46698· COSPAR 2020-073AE· 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 →
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-09 06:00 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
Oct 18, 2020
Mass
—
Apogee
309 km
Perigee
299 km
Inclination
53.03°
Period
1.51 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-1797 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Decaying
Change
-70.3 km
Rate
-0.68 km/day
Now
300 × 310 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
9 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2020-073 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 13).
- STARLINK-1802 · 46702
- STARLINK-1805 · 46705
- STARLINK-1807 · 46706
- STARLINK-1810 · 46709
- STARLINK-1821 · 46718
- STARLINK-1828 · 46725
- STARLINK-1830 · 46727
- STARLINK-1718 · 46674
- STARLINK-1781 · 46685
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