Starlink 38372

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/100522

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-38372
  • NORAD 100522
  • 2026-197W
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 38372 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Southern Ocean

Orbit ends over the Southern Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 38372 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 38372, 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 Antarctica LIVE

Where is Starlink 38372?

At 4:54:19 PM UTC Starlink 38372 was over Antarctica (69.4° S, 63.4° W), 475 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 38372?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 26, 2026.

Can I see Starlink 38372?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 38372, 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
4:54 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:54 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
69.4° S, 63.4° W
Altitude
475 km
Speed
7.63 km/s (27,464 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In sunlight until 5:16 PM UTC
Inclination
70°
Orbital period
93.6 minutes
Orbits per day
15.39
This orbit
444 to 449 km
In shadow
32 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,510 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 8:00 PM, 20 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 8:00 PM, 20 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 38372, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 38372 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 1:11 PM, 3 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 38372 shares its launch, 2026-197, with 26 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-38373Communications satellite
STARLINK-38368Communications satellite
STARLINK-38356Communications satellite
STARLINK-38371Communications satellite
STARLINK-38315Communications satellite
STARLINK-38277Communications satellite
STARLINK-38355Communications satellite
STARLINK-38374Communications satellite
STARLINK-38363Communications satellite
STARLINK-38369Communications satellite
STARLINK-38362Communications satellite
STARLINK-38393Communications satellite
STARLINK-38397Communications satellite
STARLINK-38316Communications satellite
STARLINK-38365Communications satellite
STARLINK-38360Communications satellite
STARLINK-38323Communications satellite
STARLINK-38370Communications satellite
STARLINK-38379Communications satellite
STARLINK-38377Communications satellite
STARLINK-38390Communications satellite
STARLINK-38394Communications satellite
STARLINK-38382Communications satellite
STARLINK-38275Communications satellite
STARLINK-38378Communications satellite
STARLINK-38145Communications 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 38372444 to 449 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, 8:00 PM, 20 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-38372",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-197W",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T20:00:01.000224",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.39208802,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00040423,
  "INCLINATION": 69.9995,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 346.4986,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 265.918,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 215.5391,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 100522,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 596,
  "BSTAR": -0.021667288,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00776371,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}