Starlink 1042

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/44747

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-1042
  • NORAD 44747
  • 2019-074AL
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 1042 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Arabian Sea

Orbit ends over the Red Sea

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 1042 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 1042, 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 1042?

At 3:36:03 PM UTC Starlink 1042 was over the Arabian Sea (20.6° N, 63° E), 369 km up, moving at 7.69 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Starlink 1042?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 11, 2019.

Can I see Starlink 1042?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 1042, 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
260 kg
Operating
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
3:36 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
3:36 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
20.6° N, 63° E
Altitude
369 km
Speed
7.69 km/s (27,688 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 4:05 PM UTC
Inclination
53°
Orbital period
91.9 minutes
Orbits per day
15.66
This orbit
369 to 370 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,270 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 11, 2026, 8:51 AM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 11, 2026, 8:51 AM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 1042, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 1042 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 12, 2026, 6:05 AM, 8 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 1042 shares its launch, 2019-074, with 10 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-1008Communications satellite
STARLINK-1012Communications satellite
STARLINK-1017Communications satellite
STARLINK-1020Communications satellite
STARLINK-1039Communications satellite
STARLINK-1043Communications satellite
STARLINK-1046Communications satellite
STARLINK-1047Communications satellite
STARLINK-1048Communications satellite
STARLINK-1063Communications 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 1042369 to 370 km92 minutes260 kg2019
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 11, 2026, 8:51 AM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-1042",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2019-074AL",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-11T08:51:53.123904",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.66346628,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00004885,
  "INCLINATION": 53.0376,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 338.7556,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 20.8556,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 339.2479,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 44747,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 38849,
  "BSTAR": 0.00045303597,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00047554,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}