Starlink 3156

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/49458

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-3156
  • NORAD 49458
  • 2021-104BC
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 3156 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Poland

Orbit ends over the United Kingdom

In the Earth’s shadow since

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In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 3156 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 3156, 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 Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is Starlink 3156?

At 1:09:31 PM UTC Starlink 3156 was over the Indian Ocean (47.5° S, 149.4° E), 480 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Starlink 3156?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 13, 2021.

Can I see Starlink 3156?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 3156, 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
290 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
1:09 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
1:09 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
47.5° S, 149.4° E
Altitude
480 km
Speed
7.63 km/s (27,450 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 1:11 PM UTC
Inclination
53.2°
Orbital period
93.8 minutes
Orbits per day
15.34
This orbit
462 to 464 km
In shadow
23 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,520 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 11, 2026, 11:34 PM, 13 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 11, 2026, 11:34 PM, 13 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 3156, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 3156 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 3156 shares its launch, 2021-104, with 46 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-3075Communications satellite
STARLINK-3147Communications satellite
STARLINK-3162Communications satellite
STARLINK-3157Communications satellite
STARLINK-3146Communications satellite
STARLINK-3159Communications satellite
STARLINK-3133Communications satellite
STARLINK-3154Communications satellite
STARLINK-3111Communications satellite
STARLINK-3120Communications satellite
STARLINK-3110Communications satellite
STARLINK-3112Communications satellite
STARLINK-3161Communications satellite
STARLINK-3135Communications satellite
STARLINK-3139Communications satellite
STARLINK-3114Communications satellite
STARLINK-3131Communications satellite
STARLINK-3121Communications satellite
STARLINK-3138Communications satellite
STARLINK-3153Communications satellite
STARLINK-3158Communications satellite
STARLINK-3079Communications satellite
STARLINK-3134Communications satellite
STARLINK-3117Communications satellite
STARLINK-3049Communications satellite
STARLINK-3130Communications satellite
STARLINK-3044Communications satellite
STARLINK-3105Communications satellite
STARLINK-3128Communications satellite
STARLINK-3098Communications satellite
STARLINK-3136Communications satellite
STARLINK-3126Communications satellite
STARLINK-3122Communications satellite
STARLINK-3099Communications satellite
STARLINK-3115Communications satellite
STARLINK-3137Communications satellite
STARLINK-3127Communications satellite
STARLINK-3125Communications satellite
STARLINK-3150Communications satellite
STARLINK-3129Communications satellite
STARLINK-3160Communications satellite
STARLINK-3145Communications satellite
STARLINK-3124Communications satellite
STARLINK-3132Communications satellite
STARLINK-3141Communications satellite
STARLINK-3140Communications 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 3156462 to 464 km94 minutes290 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, 11:34 PM, 13 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-3156",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2021-104BC",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-11T23:34:54.408288",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.34387408,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00010453,
  "INCLINATION": 53.1628,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 166.7192,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 93.496,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 266.6163,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 49458,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 27641,
  "BSTAR": 0.000023853728,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0000043,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}