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STARLINK-34630

NORAD 64948· COSPAR 2025-158S· Starlink· SSO
Launch
Launched on Jul 27, 2025 from Space Launch Complex 4E, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-2
Starlink satellite (representative)
Representative Starlink image · Official SpaceX Photos · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-09 06:00 UTC
Orbit class
SSO — Sun-Synchronous (LEO at 96–102° inclination)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
Jul 27, 2025
Mass
Apogee
540 km
Perigee
537 km
Inclination
97.28°
Period
1.59 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-34630 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Decaying
Change
-14.1 km
Rate
-0.14 km/day
Now
538 × 541 km
547557538May 28Sep 9
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

23 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2025-158 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-2).

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