Starlink 38129

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/100268

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-38129
  • NORAD 100268
  • 2026-181Y
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 38129 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Barents Sea

Orbit ends over the Greenland Sea

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 38129 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 38129, 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 Ross Sea LIVE

Where is Starlink 38129?

At 5:49:54 PM UTC Starlink 38129 was over the Ross Sea (79.9° S, 175° E), 494 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 38129?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 8, 2026.

Can I see Starlink 38129?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 38129, 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
5:49 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:49 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
79.9° S, 175° E
Altitude
494 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,418 km/h)
Course
south-west
Light
In sunlight until 6:04 PM UTC
Inclination
97.3°
Orbital period
93.9 minutes
Orbits per day
15.33
This orbit
462 to 463 km
In shadow
30 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,550 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 8:50 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 8:50 PM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 38129, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 38129 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 38129 shares its launch, 2026-181, with 23 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-38191Communications satellite
STARLINK-38246Communications satellite
STARLINK-38221Communications satellite
STARLINK-38233Communications satellite
STARLINK-38163Communications satellite
STARLINK-38168Communications satellite
STARLINK-38259Communications satellite
STARLINK-38243Communications satellite
STARLINK-38252Communications satellite
STARLINK-38266Communications satellite
STARLINK-38144Communications satellite
STARLINK-38167Communications satellite
STARLINK-38154Communications satellite
STARLINK-38187Communications satellite
STARLINK-38232Communications satellite
STARLINK-37947Communications satellite
STARLINK-38279Communications satellite
STARLINK-38157Communications satellite
STARLINK-38263Communications satellite
STARLINK-38280Communications satellite
STARLINK-38242Communications satellite
STARLINK-38212Communications satellite
STARLINK-38255Communications 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 38129462 to 463 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 7, 2026, 8:50 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-38129",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-181Y",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T20:50:18.661920",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.33443171,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00010696,
  "INCLINATION": 97.2866,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 355.2378,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 82.6498,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 277.4866,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 100268,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 1539,
  "BSTAR": 0.00063272057,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00020405,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}