STARLINK-34970
NORAD 65450· COSPAR 2025-194S· Starlink· SSO
Launch
Launched on Sep 3, 2025 from Space Launch Complex 4E, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-8 →
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-09 12:50 UTC
Orbit class
SSO — Sun-Synchronous (LEO at 96–102° inclination)
Operator
SpaceX
Country
United States
Manufacturer
SpaceX
Launched
Sep 3, 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-34970 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
469 × 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 2025-194 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-8).
- STARLINK-35142 · 65434
- STARLINK-34978 · 65435
- STARLINK-35043 · 65436
- STARLINK-35080 · 65437
- STARLINK-35068 · 65438
- STARLINK-35045 · 65439
- STARLINK-35050 · 65440
- STARLINK-35065 · 65441
- STARLINK-34679 · 65442
- STARLINK-34678 · 65443
- STARLINK-35049 · 65444
- STARLINK-35029 · 65445
- STARLINK-34991 · 65446
- STARLINK-34920 · 65447
- STARLINK-35030 · 65448
- STARLINK-35009 · 65449
- STARLINK-35039 · 65451
- STARLINK-35084 · 65452
- STARLINK-34988 · 65453
- STARLINK-35059 · 65454
- STARLINK-34728 · 65455
- STARLINK-35005 · 65456
- STARLINK-35076 · 65457
Sources & further reading
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