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STARLINK-31079

NORAD 58598· COSPAR 2023-200K· Starlink· LEO
Launch
Launched on Dec 19, 2023 from Space Launch Complex 40, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-34 →
Starlink satellite (representative)
Representative Starlink image · Official SpaceX Photos · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-22 13:29 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
Dec 19, 2023
Mass
—
Apogee
240 km
Perigee
214 km
Inclination
42.96°
Period
88.9 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-31079 across 117 days of archived orbital elements (119 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Decaying
Change
-139.8 km
Rate
-1.19 km/day
Now
234 × 268 km
324413234May 28Sep 23
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

20 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2023-200 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-34).

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