Starlink 2705

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/48672

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-2705
  • NORAD 48672
  • 2021-044AL
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 2705 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the East China Sea

In the Earth’s shadow since

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Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 2705 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 2705, 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 Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Starlink 2705?

At 2:13:15 PM UTC Starlink 2705 was over the Pacific Ocean (32.3° N, 152.7° E), 452 km up, moving at 7.65 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Starlink 2705?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 26, 2021.

Can I see Starlink 2705?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 2705, 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
2:13 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
2:13 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
32.3° N, 152.7° E
Altitude
452 km
Speed
7.65 km/s (27,529 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 2:26 PM UTC
Inclination
53.2°
Orbital period
93.6 minutes
Orbits per day
15.38
This orbit
450 to 455 km
In shadow
36 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,460 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 12, 2026, 6:14 AM, 7 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 12, 2026, 6:14 AM, 7 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 2705, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 2705 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, 2 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 2705 shares its launch, 2021-044, with 45 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-2739Communications satellite
STARLINK-2736Communications satellite
STARLINK-2754Communications satellite
STARLINK-2646Communications satellite
STARLINK-2704Communications satellite
STARLINK-2695Communications satellite
STARLINK-2732Communications satellite
STARLINK-2521Communications satellite
STARLINK-2673Communications satellite
STARLINK-2672Communications satellite
STARLINK-2731Communications satellite
STARLINK-2720Communications satellite
STARLINK-2657Communications satellite
STARLINK-2701Communications satellite
STARLINK-2734Communications satellite
STARLINK-2647Communications satellite
STARLINK-2717Communications satellite
STARLINK-2726Communications satellite
STARLINK-2667Communications satellite
STARLINK-2666Communications satellite
STARLINK-2735Communications satellite
STARLINK-2738Communications satellite
STARLINK-2707Communications satellite
STARLINK-2763Communications satellite
STARLINK-2745Communications satellite
STARLINK-2711Communications satellite
STARLINK-2712Communications satellite
STARLINK-2746Communications satellite
STARLINK-2615Communications satellite
STARLINK-2648Communications satellite
STARLINK-2725Communications satellite
STARLINK-2743Communications satellite
STARLINK-2756Communications satellite
STARLINK-2741Communications satellite
STARLINK-2751Communications satellite
STARLINK-2629Communications satellite
STARLINK-2627Communications satellite
STARLINK-2742Communications satellite
STARLINK-2740Communications satellite
STARLINK-2750Communications satellite
STARLINK-2752Communications satellite
STARLINK-2618Communications satellite
STARLINK-2748Communications satellite
STARLINK-2616Communications satellite
STARLINK-2753Communications 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 2705450 to 455 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 12, 2026, 6:14 AM, 7 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-2705",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2021-044AL",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-12T06:14:35.119680",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.38001617,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00032694,
  "INCLINATION": 53.1599,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 31.2607,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 34.8325,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 325.2893,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 48672,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 30190,
  "BSTAR": 0.001419968,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00053865,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}