Starlink 3256

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/50202

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-3256
  • NORAD 50202
  • 2021-125AY
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 3256 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Russia

Orbit ends over Poland

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 3256 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 3256, 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 Brazil LIVE

Where is Starlink 3256?

At 1:13:36 PM UTC Starlink 3256 was over Brazil (1.5° N, 62.9° W), 471 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 3256?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 18, 2021.

Can I see Starlink 3256?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 3256, 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
1:13 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
1:13 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
1.5° N, 62.9° W
Altitude
471 km
Speed
7.63 km/s (27,475 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In sunlight until 1:47 PM UTC
Inclination
53.2°
Orbital period
94 minutes
Orbits per day
15.32
This orbit
470 to 472 km
In shadow
31 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,500 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 12, 2026, 2:15 AM, 10 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 12, 2026, 2:15 AM, 10 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 3256, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 3256 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 3256 shares its launch, 2021-125, with 35 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-3297Communications satellite
STARLINK-3304Communications satellite
STARLINK-3298Communications satellite
STARLINK-3305Communications satellite
STARLINK-3271Communications satellite
STARLINK-3301Communications satellite
STARLINK-3245Communications satellite
STARLINK-3286Communications satellite
STARLINK-3287Communications satellite
STARLINK-3289Communications satellite
STARLINK-3292Communications satellite
STARLINK-3291Communications satellite
STARLINK-3293Communications satellite
STARLINK-3282Communications satellite
STARLINK-3283Communications satellite
STARLINK-3265Communications satellite
STARLINK-3285Communications satellite
STARLINK-3277Communications satellite
STARLINK-3281Communications satellite
STARLINK-3279Communications satellite
STARLINK-3274Communications satellite
STARLINK-3272Communications satellite
STARLINK-3276Communications satellite
STARLINK-3268Communications satellite
STARLINK-3273Communications satellite
STARLINK-3259Communications satellite
STARLINK-3261Communications satellite
STARLINK-3266Communications satellite
STARLINK-3267Communications satellite
STARLINK-3264Communications satellite
STARLINK-3270Communications satellite
STARLINK-3235Communications satellite
STARLINK-3257Communications satellite
STARLINK-3254Communications satellite
STARLINK-3260Communications 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 3256470 to 472 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 12, 2026, 2:15 AM, 10 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-3256",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2021-125AY",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-12T02:15:23.993280",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.31672783,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00018234,
  "INCLINATION": 53.1589,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 188.2142,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 87.7693,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 272.3517,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 50202,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 27435,
  "BSTAR": 0.00015375889,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00004405,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}