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STARLINK-2727

NORAD 48652· COSPAR 2021-044Q· Starlink· LEO
Launch
Launched on May 26, 2021 from Space Launch Complex 40, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 28
Starlink satellite (representative)
Representative Starlink image · Official SpaceX Photos · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Live · TLE epoch 2026-08-30 12:13 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
May 26, 2021
Mass
Apogee
198 km
Perigee
185 km
Inclination
53.02°
Period
88.2 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-2727 across 94 days of archived orbital elements (96 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Decaying
Change
-171.6 km
Rate
-1.82 km/day
Now
185 × 198 km
274364185May 28Aug 31
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 2021-044 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 28).

…and 22 more from this launch.

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