STARLINK-34972
NORAD 65188· COSPAR 2025-175Q· Starlink· SSO
Launch
Launched on Aug 14, 2025 from Space Launch Complex 4E, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-4 →
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 14:46 UTC
Orbit class
SSO — Sun-Synchronous (LEO at 96–102° inclination)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
Aug 14, 2025
Mass
—
Apogee
471 km
Perigee
468 km
Inclination
97.28°
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-34972 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Decaying
Change
-84.0 km
Rate
-0.81 km/day
Now
468 × 471 km
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 2025-175 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-4).
- STARLINK-34956 · 65174
- STARLINK-34949 · 65175
- STARLINK-34707 · 65176
- STARLINK-34967 · 65177
- STARLINK-34929 · 65178
- STARLINK-34932 · 65179
- STARLINK-34862 · 65180
- STARLINK-34942 · 65181
- STARLINK-34944 · 65182
- STARLINK-34939 · 65183
- STARLINK-34947 · 65184
- STARLINK-34945 · 65185
- STARLINK-34965 · 65186
- STARLINK-34915 · 65187
- STARLINK-34866 · 65189
- STARLINK-34917 · 65190
- STARLINK-34948 · 65191
- STARLINK-34955 · 65192
- STARLINK-34950 · 65193
- STARLINK-34926 · 65194
- STARLINK-34928 · 65195
- STARLINK-34927 · 65196
- STARLINK-34952 · 65197
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