Starlink 4538

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/53430

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-4538
  • NORAD 53430
  • 2022-097AU
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 4538 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Labrador Sea

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 4538 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 4538, 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 4538?

At 7:23:34 AM UTC Starlink 4538 was over the Indian Ocean (52.1° S, 137.2° E), 482 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 4538?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 10, 2022.

Can I see Starlink 4538?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 4538, 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
7:23 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
7:23 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
52.1° S, 137.2° E
Altitude
482 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,446 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In sunlight until 7:35 AM UTC
Inclination
53.2°
Orbital period
93.8 minutes
Orbits per day
15.34
This orbit
462 to 464 km
In shadow
36 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,520 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 11, 2026, 4:11 PM, 15 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 11, 2026, 4:11 PM, 15 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 4538, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 4538 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 11, 2026, 9:17 PM, 3 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 4538 shares its launch, 2022-097, with 46 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-4522Communications satellite
STARLINK-4523Communications satellite
STARLINK-4517Communications satellite
STARLINK-4521Communications satellite
STARLINK-4535Communications satellite
STARLINK-4530Communications satellite
STARLINK-4544Communications satellite
STARLINK-4534Communications satellite
STARLINK-4524Communications satellite
STARLINK-4515Communications satellite
STARLINK-4512Communications satellite
STARLINK-4528Communications satellite
STARLINK-4520Communications satellite
STARLINK-4525Communications satellite
STARLINK-4499Communications satellite
STARLINK-4507Communications satellite
STARLINK-4509Communications satellite
STARLINK-4510Communications satellite
STARLINK-4533Communications satellite
STARLINK-4491Communications satellite
STARLINK-4490Communications satellite
STARLINK-4492Communications satellite
STARLINK-4497Communications satellite
STARLINK-4496Communications satellite
STARLINK-4500Communications satellite
STARLINK-4304Communications satellite
STARLINK-4479Communications satellite
STARLINK-4480Communications satellite
STARLINK-4484Communications satellite
STARLINK-4481Communications satellite
STARLINK-4476Communications satellite
STARLINK-4552Communications satellite
STARLINK-4545Communications satellite
STARLINK-4546Communications satellite
STARLINK-4539Communications satellite
STARLINK-4532Communications satellite
STARLINK-4531Communications satellite
STARLINK-4558Communications satellite
STARLINK-4543Communications satellite
STARLINK-4548Communications satellite
STARLINK-4557Communications satellite
STARLINK-4549Communications satellite
STARLINK-4542Communications satellite
STARLINK-4527Communications satellite
STARLINK-4526Communications satellite
STARLINK-4519Communications 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 4538462 to 464 km94 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, 4:11 PM, 15 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-4538",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2022-097AU",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-11T16:11:49.076448",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.34389161,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00011292,
  "INCLINATION": 53.1607,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 49.5865,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 79.1883,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 280.9247,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 53430,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 23640,
  "BSTAR": 0.000043542778,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001095,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}