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STARLINK-2401

NORAD 47818· COSPAR 2021-018AH· Starlink· LEO
Launch
Launched on Mar 11, 2021 from Space Launch Complex 40, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 20
Starlink satellite (representative)
Representative Starlink image · Official SpaceX Photos · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-07 17:20 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
Mar 11, 2021
Mass
Apogee
161 km
Perigee
151 km
Inclination
53.02°
Period
87.5 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-2401 across 13 days of archived orbital elements (14 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Decaying
Change
-122.4 km
Rate
-9.42 km/day
Now
151 × 161 km
216281151Aug 26Sep 8
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

46 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2021-018 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 20).

…and 22 more from this launch.

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