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STARLINK-4293

NORAD 52989· COSPAR 2022-076D· Starlink· LEO
Launch
Launched on Jul 7, 2022 from Space Launch Complex 40, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-21 →
Starlink satellite (representative)
Representative Starlink image · Official SpaceX Photos · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-07 04:22 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
Jul 7, 2022
Mass
—
Apogee
186 km
Perigee
176 km
Inclination
53.20°
Period
88.0 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-4293 across 132 days of archived orbital elements (134 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Decaying
Change
-287.4 km
Rate
-2.18 km/day
Now
176 × 186 km
322469176May 28Oct 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

48 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2022-076 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-21).

…and 24 more from this launch.

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