- Communications satellite
- STARLINK-3366
- NORAD 51104
- 2022-005A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Russia
Orbit ends over Russia
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches Starlink 3366 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 3366, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is Starlink 3366?
At 12:17:21 PM UTC Starlink 3366 was over the Pacific Ocean (13.4° N, 179.7° W), 475 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is Starlink 3366?
A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 19, 2022.
Can I see Starlink 3366?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 3366, 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
- 297 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
- 12:17 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 12:17 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 13.4° N, 179.7° W
- Altitude
- 475 km
- Speed
- 7.63 km/s (27,472 km/h)
- Course
- south-east
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 12:32 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 53.2°
- Orbital period
- 94.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.3
- This orbit
- 475 to 476 km
- In shadow
- 36 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,510 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 12, 2026, 2:10 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 12, 2026, 2:10 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 3366, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Starlink 3366 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.
Launched with
Starlink 3366 shares its launch, 2022-005, with 42 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| STARLINK-3350 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3176 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3362 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3358 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3344 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3173 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3374 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3372 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3375 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3397 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3243 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3391 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3394 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3398 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3399 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3392 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3389 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3387 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3386 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3370 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3400 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3396 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3395 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3388 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3393 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3356 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3363 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3253 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3180 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3177 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3172 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3175 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3179 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3369 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3184 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3185 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3354 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3352 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3359 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3360 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3357 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-3364 | Communications 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
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starlink 3366 | 475 to 476 km | 94 minutes | 297 kg | 2022 |
| BlueWalker 3 | 443 to 453 km | 94 minutes | about 1.5 t | 2022 |
| Hispasat 30W-6 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 6.1 t | 2018 |
| Amazonas Nexus | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2023 |
| ARSAT-1 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 3 t | 2014 |
| Astra 1N | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 5.3 t | 2011 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 12, 2026, 2:10 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-3366",
"OBJECT_ID": "2022-005A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-12T02:10:27.572160",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.30251892,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.0001172,
"INCLINATION": 53.2007,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 248.4654,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 95.2841,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 264.8294,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 51104,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 26636,
"BSTAR": 0.00091768,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00026961,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}