Starlink 5098

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/54013

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-5098
  • NORAD 54013
  • 2022-125BB
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 5098 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Russia

Orbit ends over Russia

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 5098 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 5098, 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 Libya LIVE

Where is Starlink 5098?

At 6:08:17 AM UTC Starlink 5098 was over Libya (21.5° N, 24.6° E), 463 km up, moving at 7.64 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 5098?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 5, 2022.

Can I see Starlink 5098?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 5098, 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
305 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
6:08 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:08 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
21.5° N, 24.6° E
Altitude
463 km
Speed
7.64 km/s (27,497 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In sunlight until 6:57 AM UTC
Inclination
53.2°
Orbital period
93.8 minutes
Orbits per day
15.34
This orbit
462 to 464 km
In shadow
10 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,480 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 11, 2026, 7:04 PM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 11, 2026, 7:04 PM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 5098, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 5098 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 5098 shares its launch, 2022-125, with 41 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-4633Communications satellite
STARLINK-4635Communications satellite
STARLINK-4634Communications satellite
STARLINK-4629Communications satellite
STARLINK-4468Communications satellite
STARLINK-4567Communications satellite
STARLINK-5156Communications satellite
STARLINK-5159Communications satellite
STARLINK-5137Communications satellite
STARLINK-5134Communications satellite
STARLINK-5094Communications satellite
STARLINK-5148Communications satellite
STARLINK-5123Communications satellite
STARLINK-5133Communications satellite
STARLINK-5149Communications satellite
STARLINK-5120Communications satellite
STARLINK-5142Communications satellite
STARLINK-5147Communications satellite
STARLINK-5119Communications satellite
STARLINK-5113Communications satellite
STARLINK-5118Communications satellite
STARLINK-5108Communications satellite
STARLINK-5121Communications satellite
STARLINK-5125Communications satellite
STARLINK-5097Communications satellite
STARLINK-5131Communications satellite
STARLINK-5130Communications satellite
STARLINK-5128Communications satellite
STARLINK-5079Communications satellite
STARLINK-5088Communications satellite
STARLINK-5109Communications satellite
STARLINK-5114Communications satellite
STARLINK-5129Communications satellite
STARLINK-5135Communications satellite
STARLINK-5096Communications satellite
STARLINK-5132Communications satellite
STARLINK-5145Communications satellite
STARLINK-5099Communications satellite
STARLINK-5127Communications satellite
STARLINK-5124Communications satellite
STARLINK-5126Communications 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 5098462 to 464 km94 minutes305 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, 7:04 PM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-5098",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2022-125BB",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-11T19:04:38.247168",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.34384719,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00012465,
  "INCLINATION": 53.1583,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 153.0787,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 97.6513,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 262.4631,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 54013,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 22720,
  "BSTAR": 0.000049494552,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001296,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}