Starlink 38072

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/100113

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-38072
  • NORAD 100113
  • 2026-166N
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 38072 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Arctic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Arctic Ocean

In the Earth’s shadow since

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In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 38072 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 38072, 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 Mali LIVE

Where is Starlink 38072?

At 7:10:03 PM UTC Starlink 38072 was over Mali (21.5° N, 4.7° W), 347 km up, moving at 7.7 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Starlink 38072?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jul 21, 2026.

Can I see Starlink 38072?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 38072, 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
7:10 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
7:10 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
21.5° N, 4.7° W
Altitude
347 km
Speed
7.7 km/s (27,731 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 7:19 PM UTC
Inclination
97.3°
Orbital period
91.4 minutes
Orbits per day
15.75
This orbit
340 to 342 km
In shadow
16 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,220 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 7:36 AM, 2 days old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 7:36 AM, 2 days old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 38072, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 38072 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 38072 shares its launch, 2026-166, with 23 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-38222Communications satellite
STARLINK-37740Communications satellite
STARLINK-38214Communications satellite
STARLINK-38174Communications satellite
STARLINK-38158Communications satellite
STARLINK-38161Communications satellite
STARLINK-37864Communications satellite
STARLINK-38118Communications satellite
STARLINK-37712Communications satellite
STARLINK-38101Communications satellite
STARLINK-38115Communications satellite
STARLINK-38113Communications satellite
STARLINK-38088Communications satellite
STARLINK-38044Communications satellite
STARLINK-38038Communications satellite
STARLINK-38062Communications satellite
STARLINK-38030Communications satellite
STARLINK-38096Communications satellite
STARLINK-38120Communications satellite
STARLINK-38160Communications satellite
STARLINK-38135Communications satellite
STARLINK-38134Communications satellite
STARLINK-37991Communications 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 38072340 to 342 km91 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 7, 2026, 7:36 AM, 2 days old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-38072",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-166N",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T07:36:51.733152",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.75174379,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0001204,
  "INCLINATION": 97.2843,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 332.0626,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 101.6173,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 258.5227,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 100113,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 1713,
  "BSTAR": -0.000001660724,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000377,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}