Starlink 37980

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/100283

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-37980
  • NORAD 100283
  • 2026-183M
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 37980 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over Russia

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 37980 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 37980, 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 Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Starlink 37980?

At 5:39:46 PM UTC Starlink 37980 was over the Pacific Ocean (12.7° S, 101.1° W), 466 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 37980?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 11, 2026.

Can I see Starlink 37980?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 37980, 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
5:39 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:39 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
12.7° S, 101.1° W
Altitude
466 km
Speed
7.63 km/s (27,482 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In sunlight until 6:11 PM UTC
Inclination
53.2°
Orbital period
93.8 minutes
Orbits per day
15.34
This orbit
462 to 464 km
In shadow
36 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,490 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 10:03 PM, 19 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 10:03 PM, 19 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 37980, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 37980 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 37980 shares its launch, 2026-183, with 28 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-37697Communications satellite
STARLINK-37705Communications satellite
STARLINK-37696Communications satellite
STARLINK-37750Communications satellite
STARLINK-37648Communications satellite
STARLINK-37550Communications satellite
STARLINK-37674Communications satellite
STARLINK-37699Communications satellite
STARLINK-37942Communications satellite
STARLINK-37973Communications satellite
STARLINK-37981Communications satellite
STARLINK-37944Communications satellite
STARLINK-37982Communications satellite
STARLINK-37793Communications satellite
STARLINK-37480Communications satellite
STARLINK-37809Communications satellite
STARLINK-37813Communications satellite
STARLINK-37805Communications satellite
STARLINK-37827Communications satellite
STARLINK-37810Communications satellite
STARLINK-37812Communications satellite
STARLINK-37457Communications satellite
STARLINK-37559Communications satellite
STARLINK-37811Communications satellite
STARLINK-37741Communications satellite
STARLINK-37753Communications satellite
STARLINK-37675Communications satellite
STARLINK-37874Communications 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 37980462 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, 10:03 PM, 19 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-37980",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-183M",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T22:03:18.253728",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.34427703,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00016378,
  "INCLINATION": 53.1585,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 26.8729,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 83.8461,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 276.2728,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 100283,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 1388,
  "BSTAR": 0.0013477574,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00045477,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}