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STARLINK-2582

NORAD 48460· COSPAR 2021-040AJ· Starlink· LEO
Launch
Launched on May 9, 2021 from Space Launch Complex 40, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 27 →
Starlink satellite (representative)
Representative Starlink image · Official SpaceX Photos · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
No longer in orbit

STARLINK-2582 reentered Earth's atmosphere on Aug 13, 2026. The orbit below is the last tracked element set, shown for reference — it is not a current position.

Last tracked · TLE epoch 2026-08-12 22:58 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
May 9, 2021
Reentered
Aug 13, 2026
Mass
—
Apogee
183 km
Perigee
167 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.

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Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for STARLINK-2582 across 77 days of archived orbital elements (79 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Decaying
Change
-179.7 km
Rate
-2.33 km/day
Now
167 × 183 km
263359167May 28Aug 14
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

42 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2021-040 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 27).

…and 18 more from this launch.

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