Starlink 3942

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  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-3942
  • NORAD 52563
  • 2022-051AG
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 3942 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over Canada

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 3942 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 3942, 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 3942?

At 9:48:35 AM UTC Starlink 3942 was over the Indian Ocean (46.1° S, 108.4° E), 414 km up, moving at 7.66 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 3942?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 13, 2022.

Can I see Starlink 3942?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 3942, 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
9:48 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
9:48 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
46.1° S, 108.4° E
Altitude
414 km
Speed
7.66 km/s (27,583 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In sunlight until 10:00 AM UTC
Inclination
53.2°
Orbital period
92.5 minutes
Orbits per day
15.56
This orbit
398 to 400 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,380 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 11, 2026, 10:00 PM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 11, 2026, 10:00 PM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 3942, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 3942 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 3942 shares its launch, 2022-051, with 40 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-3958Communications satellite
STARLINK-3964Communications satellite
STARLINK-3897Communications satellite
STARLINK-3933Communications satellite
STARLINK-3757Communications satellite
STARLINK-3940Communications satellite
STARLINK-3845Communications satellite
STARLINK-3937Communications satellite
STARLINK-3926Communications satellite
STARLINK-3944Communications satellite
STARLINK-3948Communications satellite
STARLINK-3931Communications satellite
STARLINK-3935Communications satellite
STARLINK-3965Communications satellite
STARLINK-3969Communications satellite
STARLINK-3966Communications satellite
STARLINK-3770Communications satellite
STARLINK-3943Communications satellite
STARLINK-3953Communications satellite
STARLINK-3956Communications satellite
STARLINK-3955Communications satellite
STARLINK-3957Communications satellite
STARLINK-3959Communications satellite
STARLINK-3911Communications satellite
STARLINK-3938Communications satellite
STARLINK-3929Communications satellite
STARLINK-3930Communications satellite
STARLINK-3927Communications satellite
STARLINK-3901Communications satellite
STARLINK-3932Communications satellite
STARLINK-3836Communications satellite
STARLINK-3833Communications satellite
STARLINK-3919Communications satellite
STARLINK-3915Communications satellite
STARLINK-3895Communications satellite
STARLINK-3922Communications satellite
STARLINK-3906Communications satellite
STARLINK-3910Communications satellite
STARLINK-3867Communications satellite
STARLINK-3917Communications 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 3942398 to 400 km93 minutes297 kg2022
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, 10:00 PM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-3942",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2022-051AG",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-11T22:00:01.999584",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.56178896,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00012027,
  "INCLINATION": 53.1599,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 78.7945,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 78.4355,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 286.9582,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 52563,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 586,
  "BSTAR": 0.0032653221,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00239404,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}