GLOBAL-12
Launch
Launched on Dec 2, 2021 from Space Launch Complex 40, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-3 →Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 13:44 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
United States Government
Country
United States
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Dec 2, 2021
Mass
—
Apogee
401 km
Perigee
398 km
Inclination
53.20°
Period
1.54 h
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for GLOBAL-12 across 14 days of archived orbital elements (15 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Decaying
Change
-3.0 km
Rate
-0.21 km/day
Now
398 × 401 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
46 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2021-115 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-3).
- STARLINK-3219 · 49724
- STARLINK-3248 · 49748
- STARLINK-3250 · 49749
- STARLINK-3236 · 49750
- STARLINK-3229 · 49751
- STARLINK-3209 · 49752
- STARLINK-3200 · 49753
- STARLINK-3193 · 49754
- STARLINK-3210 · 49755
- STARLINK-3207 · 49756
- STARLINK-3197 · 49757
- STARLINK-3194 · 49758
- STARLINK-3204 · 49759
- STARLINK-3199 · 49760
- STARLINK-3203 · 49761
- STARLINK-3195 · 49762
- STARLINK-3198 · 49763
- STARLINK-3227 · 49765
- STARLINK-3190 · 49766
- STARLINK-3192 · 49767
- STARLINK-3196 · 49768
- STARLINK-3208 · 49769
- STARLINK-3191 · 49770
- STARLINK-3201 · 49771
…and 22 more from this launch.
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