Starlink 38486

LIVE
See on the map

Link to this page

https://orbinauts.com/satellites/101225

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-38486
  • NORAD 101225
  • 2026-244AB
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 38486 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
View on live map

Orbit began over the Southern Ocean

Orbit ends over Antarctica

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 38486 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 38486, 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 Arabian Sea LIVE

Where is Starlink 38486?

At 4:41:22 PM UTC Starlink 38486 was over the Arabian Sea (13° N, 63.7° E), 326 km up, moving at 7.71 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Starlink 38486?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 27, 2026.

Can I see Starlink 38486?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 38486, 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
4:41 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:41 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
13° N, 63.7° E
Altitude
326 km
Speed
7.71 km/s (27,770 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 5:00 PM UTC
Inclination
70°
Orbital period
91 minutes
Orbits per day
15.82
This orbit
319 to 325 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,160 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:53 AM, 9 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:53 AM, 9 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 38486, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 38486 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 38486 shares its launch, 2026-244, with 26 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-38504Communications satellite
STARLINK-38230Communications satellite
STARLINK-38336Communications satellite
STARLINK-38500Communications satellite
STARLINK-38427Communications satellite
STARLINK-38501Communications satellite
STARLINK-37986Communications satellite
STARLINK-38180Communications satellite
STARLINK-38425Communications satellite
STARLINK-38287Communications satellite
STARLINK-38125Communications satellite
STARLINK-38340Communications satellite
STARLINK-37678Communications satellite
STARLINK-38181Communications satellite
STARLINK-38428Communications satellite
STARLINK-38337Communications satellite
STARLINK-38483Communications satellite
STARLINK-38146Communications satellite
STARLINK-38153Communications satellite
STARLINK-38351Communications satellite
STARLINK-38480Communications satellite
STARLINK-38491Communications satellite
STARLINK-38489Communications satellite
STARLINK-38481Communications satellite
STARLINK-38488Communications satellite
STARLINK-38490Communications 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 38486319 to 325 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 8, 2026, 6:53 AM, 9 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-38486",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-244AB",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:53:10.641408",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.82264888,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00040618,
  "INCLINATION": 69.9983,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 187.9083,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 266.679,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 93.3947,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 101225,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 191,
  "BSTAR": 0.0013410708,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00285953,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}