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STARLINK-31472

NORAD 59730· COSPAR 2024-090A· Starlink· LEO
Launch
Launched on May 13, 2024 from Space Launch Complex 40, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-58
Starlink satellite (representative)
Representative Starlink image · Official SpaceX Photos · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-09 15:19 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
May 13, 2024
Mass
Apogee
477 km
Perigee
466 km
Inclination
43.00°
Period
1.56 h
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-31472 across 104 days of archived orbital elements (106 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Decaying
Change
-20.1 km
Rate
-0.19 km/day
Now
467 × 477 km
481494467May 28Sep 10
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

21 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2024-090 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-58).

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