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STARLINK-5140

NORAD 56147· COSPAR 2023-046BH· Starlink· LEO
Launch
Launched on Mar 29, 2023 from Space Launch Complex 40, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 5-10 →
Starlink satellite (representative)
Representative Starlink image · Official SpaceX Photos · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
No longer in orbit

STARLINK-5140 reentered Earth's atmosphere on Jul 4, 2026. The orbit below is the last tracked element set, shown for reference — it is not a current position.

Last tracked · TLE epoch 2026-07-04 14:12 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
Mar 29, 2023
Reentered
Jul 4, 2026
Mass
—
Apogee
171 km
Perigee
166 km
Inclination
42.99°
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-5140 across 37 days of archived orbital elements (39 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Decaying
Change
-248.6 km
Rate
-6.69 km/day
Now
166 × 171 km
292418166May 28Jul 5
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

47 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2023-046 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 5-10).

…and 23 more from this launch.

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