Starlink 2427

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/47837

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-2427
  • NORAD 47837
  • 2021-018BC
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 2427 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Mediterranean Sea

Orbit ends over the Mediterranean Sea

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 2427 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 2427, 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 Red Sea LIVE

Where is Starlink 2427?

At 3:42:05 PM UTC Starlink 2427 was over the Red Sea (21.6° N, 39° E), 451 km up, moving at 7.65 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 2427?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Mar 11, 2021.

Can I see Starlink 2427?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 2427, 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
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
3:42 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
3:42 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
21.6° N, 39° E
Altitude
451 km
Speed
7.65 km/s (27,529 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In sunlight until 3:46 PM UTC
Inclination
53.2°
Orbital period
93.7 minutes
Orbits per day
15.37
This orbit
451 to 458 km
In shadow
23 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,460 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 11, 2026, 11:26 PM, 16 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 11, 2026, 11:26 PM, 16 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 2427, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 2427 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 2427 shares its launch, 2021-018, with 45 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-2257Communications satellite
STARLINK-2314Communications satellite
STARLINK-2315Communications satellite
STARLINK-2319Communications satellite
STARLINK-2322Communications satellite
STARLINK-2334Communications satellite
STARLINK-2338Communications satellite
STARLINK-2373Communications satellite
STARLINK-2377Communications satellite
STARLINK-2379Communications satellite
STARLINK-2380Communications satellite
STARLINK-2381Communications satellite
STARLINK-2383Communications satellite
STARLINK-2385Communications satellite
STARLINK-2386Communications satellite
STARLINK-2387Communications satellite
STARLINK-2388Communications satellite
STARLINK-2389Communications satellite
STARLINK-2391Communications satellite
STARLINK-2395Communications satellite
STARLINK-2396Communications satellite
STARLINK-2399Communications satellite
STARLINK-2400Communications satellite
STARLINK-2402Communications satellite
STARLINK-2406Communications satellite
STARLINK-2407Communications satellite
STARLINK-2408Communications satellite
STARLINK-2409Communications satellite
STARLINK-2410Communications satellite
STARLINK-2411Communications satellite
STARLINK-2413Communications satellite
STARLINK-2415Communications satellite
STARLINK-2419Communications satellite
STARLINK-2420Communications satellite
STARLINK-2422Communications satellite
STARLINK-2423Communications satellite
STARLINK-2424Communications satellite
STARLINK-2426Communications satellite
STARLINK-2429Communications satellite
STARLINK-2431Communications satellite
STARLINK-2432Communications satellite
STARLINK-2433Communications satellite
STARLINK-2435Communications satellite
STARLINK-2446Communications satellite
STARLINK-2453Communications 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 2427451 to 458 km94 minutes260 kg2021
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, 11:26 PM, 16 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-2427",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2021-018BC",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-11T23:26:16.156032",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.37306093,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00050934,
  "INCLINATION": 53.1544,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 166.672,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 128.9125,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 231.2333,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 47837,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 31468,
  "BSTAR": 0.0013524213,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00050119,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}