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STARLINK-5042

NORAD 53899· COSPAR 2022-119P· Starlink· LEO
Launch
Launched on Sep 24, 2022 from Space Launch Complex 40, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-35 →
Starlink satellite (representative)
Representative Starlink image · Official SpaceX Photos · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
No longer in orbit

STARLINK-5042 reentered Earth's atmosphere on Jul 7, 2026. The orbit below is the last tracked element set, shown for reference — it is not a current position.

Last tracked · TLE epoch 2026-07-06 23:04 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
Sep 24, 2022
Reentered
Jul 7, 2026
Mass
—
Apogee
174 km
Perigee
158 km
Inclination
53.20°
Period
87.7 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.

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Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for STARLINK-5042 across 39 days of archived orbital elements (41 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Decaying
Change
-175.1 km
Rate
-4.47 km/day
Now
175 × 190 km
267358175May 28Jul 7
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

40 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2022-119 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-35).

…and 16 more from this launch.

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