Starlink 38023

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/100043

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-38023
  • NORAD 100043
  • 2026-161R
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 38023 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Canada

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

In the Earth’s shadow since

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In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 38023 go over, but a receiver still asks whether it is above the horizon. Say where you are and this card answers.

Your position is rounded to about a kilometre and sent only to the Orbinauts API, to find the pass.

No brightness has been published for Starlink 38023, so it is not a naked-eye satellite and no city page carries pass times for it. Nothing here estimates one.

Seeing it

There is nothing to go outside for: it is too faint for the naked eye. What reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is Starlink 38023?

At 7:18:00 PM UTC Starlink 38023 was over the Indian Ocean (51° S, 77.2° E), 481 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Starlink 38023?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jul 14, 2026.

Can I see Starlink 38023?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 38023, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
SpaceX (Seattle)
State
United States of America
Built by
SpaceX (Seattle)
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
575 kg
Operating
Yes
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
7:18 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
7:18 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
51° S, 77.2° E
Altitude
481 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,446 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 7:27 PM UTC
Inclination
53.2°
Orbital period
93.8 minutes
Orbits per day
15.34
This orbit
462 to 464 km
In shadow
10 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,520 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:37 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:37 PM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 38023, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 38023 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 9, 2026, 1:50 PM, 2 hours old. Only approaches serious enough to be reported publicly are listed: within three days and, for two bodies near the Earth, closer than a kilometre with a chance of a collision above 1 in 10,000, the level at which NASA moves the ISS.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

Starlink 38023 shares its launch, 2026-161, with 28 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-37844Communications satellite
STARLINK-37610Communications satellite
STARLINK-37845Communications satellite
STARLINK-37336Communications satellite
STARLINK-37481Communications satellite
STARLINK-37458Communications satellite
STARLINK-37917Communications satellite
STARLINK-37415Communications satellite
STARLINK-37560Communications satellite
STARLINK-37847Communications satellite
STARLINK-37672Communications satellite
STARLINK-37693Communications satellite
STARLINK-37714Communications satellite
STARLINK-37448Communications satellite
STARLINK-38002Communications satellite
STARLINK-37984Communications satellite
STARLINK-37808Communications satellite
STARLINK-37807Communications satellite
STARLINK-37756Communications satellite
STARLINK-37752Communications satellite
STARLINK-37848Communications satellite
STARLINK-37826Communications satellite
STARLINK-37677Communications satellite
STARLINK-37797Communications satellite
STARLINK-37796Communications satellite
STARLINK-37505Communications satellite
STARLINK-37605Communications satellite
STARLINK-37650Communications satellite

Read from the international designators of the US catalogue: the year and the launch number every piece of one launch shares. A body that has come down is no longer listed.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Starlink 38023462 to 464 km94 minutes575 kg2026
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 6:37 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-38023",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-161R",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T18:37:07.417920",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.34438398,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00015669,
  "INCLINATION": 53.1562,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 127.4938,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 91.1147,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 269.0035,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 100043,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 1817,
  "BSTAR": 0.0011731958,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0003952,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}