BLUEWALKER-3
Launch
Launched on Sep 11, 2022 from Launch Complex 39A, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-2 & BlueWalker 3 →Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 13:51 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
AST SpaceMobile
Country
United States
Manufacturer
AST SpaceMobile
Launched
Sep 11, 2022
Mass
—
Apogee
461 km
Perigee
451 km
Inclination
53.23°
Period
1.56 h
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for BLUEWALKER-3 across 14 days of archived orbital elements (15 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Stable
Change
-0.4 km
Rate
-0.03 km/day
Now
451 × 461 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
27 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2022-111 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-2 & BlueWalker 3).
- STARLINK-4718 · 53773
- STARLINK-4723 · 53797
- STARLINK-4712 · 53798
- STARLINK-4710 · 53799
- STARLINK-4720 · 53800
- STARLINK-4715 · 53801
- STARLINK-4726 · 53802
- STARLINK-4727 · 53803
- STARLINK-4729 · 53804
- STARLINK-4763 · 53805
- STARLINK-4768 · 53806
- STARLINK-4719 · 53774
- STARLINK-4722 · 53775
- STARLINK-4664 · 53777
- STARLINK-4709 · 53778
- STARLINK-4706 · 53779
- STARLINK-4678 · 53780
- STARLINK-4462 · 53781
- STARLINK-4536 · 53783
- STARLINK-4687 · 53784
- STARLINK-4743 · 53787
- STARLINK-4666 · 53789
- STARLINK-4734 · 53790
- STARLINK-4739 · 53792
…and 3 more from this launch.
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