Starlink 2251

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/48594

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-2251
  • NORAD 48594
  • 2021-041AT
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 2251 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Tunisia

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

In the Earth’s shadow since

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In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 2251 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 2251, 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 Chile LIVE

Where is Starlink 2251?

At 3:18:06 AM UTC Starlink 2251 was over Chile (35.4° S, 72.4° W), 462 km up, moving at 7.64 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Starlink 2251?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 15, 2021.

Can I see Starlink 2251?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 2251, 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
3:18 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
3:18 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
35.4° S, 72.4° W
Altitude
462 km
Speed
7.64 km/s (27,486 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 3:49 AM UTC
Inclination
53.2°
Orbital period
93.6 minutes
Orbits per day
15.38
This orbit
450 to 453 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,480 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:00 AM, 19 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:00 AM, 19 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 2251, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 2251 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 2:43 PM, 9 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 2251 shares its launch, 2021-041, with 37 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-2063Communications satellite
STARLINK-2139Communications satellite
STARLINK-2145Communications satellite
STARLINK-2151Communications satellite
STARLINK-2155Communications satellite
STARLINK-2166Communications satellite
STARLINK-2188Communications satellite
STARLINK-2190Communications satellite
STARLINK-2214Communications satellite
STARLINK-2217Communications satellite
STARLINK-2219Communications satellite
STARLINK-2221Communications satellite
STARLINK-2222Communications satellite
STARLINK-2224Communications satellite
STARLINK-2225Communications satellite
STARLINK-2227Communications satellite
STARLINK-2228Communications satellite
STARLINK-2231Communications satellite
STARLINK-2232Communications satellite
STARLINK-2234Communications satellite
STARLINK-2235Communications satellite
STARLINK-2237Communications satellite
STARLINK-2241Communications satellite
STARLINK-2245Communications satellite
STARLINK-2250Communications satellite
STARLINK-2252Communications satellite
STARLINK-2253Communications satellite
STARLINK-2255Communications satellite
STARLINK-2713Communications satellite
STARLINK-2714Communications satellite
STARLINK-2757Communications satellite
TYVAK-0130Satellite
FALCON 9 DEBDebris
FALCON 9 DEBDebris
FALCON 9 DEBDebris
FALCON 9 DEBDebris
FALCON 9 DEBDebris

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 2251450 to 453 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 8, 2026, 8:00 AM, 19 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-2251",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2021-041AT",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:00:03.000384",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.38419197,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00022394,
  "INCLINATION": 53.16,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 61.197,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 44.2058,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 133.1912,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 48594,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 582,
  "BSTAR": 0.001804077,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00069624,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}