STARLINK-3243
NORAD 51116· COSPAR 2022-005N· Starlink· LEO
Launch
Launched on Jan 19, 2022 from Launch Complex 39A, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-6 →
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 05:02 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
Jan 19, 2022
Mass
—
Apogee
479 km
Perigee
477 km
Inclination
53.16°
Period
1.57 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-3243 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Decaying
Change
-69.1 km
Rate
-0.67 km/day
Now
477 × 479 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
42 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2022-005 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-6).
- STARLINK-3366 · 51104
- STARLINK-3400 · 51128
- STARLINK-3396 · 51129
- STARLINK-3395 · 51130
- STARLINK-3388 · 51131
- STARLINK-3393 · 51132
- STARLINK-3356 · 51133
- STARLINK-3363 · 51135
- STARLINK-3253 · 51136
- STARLINK-3180 · 51137
- STARLINK-3177 · 51138
- STARLINK-3172 · 51139
- STARLINK-3175 · 51140
- STARLINK-3179 · 51141
- STARLINK-3369 · 51142
- STARLINK-3184 · 51143
- STARLINK-3185 · 51144
- STARLINK-3354 · 51146
- STARLINK-3352 · 51147
- STARLINK-3359 · 51148
- STARLINK-3360 · 51149
- STARLINK-3357 · 51150
- STARLINK-3350 · 51105
- STARLINK-3364 · 51152
…and 18 more from this launch.
Sources & further reading
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