Starlink 5487

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/55652

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-5487
  • NORAD 55652
  • 2023-021AA
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 5487 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Antarctica

Orbit ends over Antarctica

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 5487 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 5487, 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 Canada LIVE

Where is Starlink 5487?

At 2:17:15 AM UTC Starlink 5487 was over Canada (58.4° N, 129.1° W), 553 km up, moving at 7.59 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 5487?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Feb 17, 2023.

Can I see Starlink 5487?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 5487, 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
2:17 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
2:17 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
58.4° N, 129.1° W
Altitude
553 km
Speed
7.59 km/s (27,328 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In sunlight until 2:20 AM UTC
Inclination
70°
Orbital period
95.5 minutes
Orbits per day
15.08
This orbit
539 to 542 km
In shadow
32 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,670 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 11, 2026, 2:00 PM, 12 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 11, 2026, 2:00 PM, 12 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 5487, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 5487 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 5487 shares its launch, 2023-021, with 43 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-5484Communications satellite
STARLINK-5497Communications satellite
STARLINK-5303Communications satellite
STARLINK-5558Communications satellite
STARLINK-5546Communications satellite
STARLINK-5498Communications satellite
STARLINK-5500Communications satellite
STARLINK-5495Communications satellite
STARLINK-5218Communications satellite
STARLINK-5062Communications satellite
STARLINK-5507Communications satellite
STARLINK-5508Communications satellite
STARLINK-5069Communications satellite
STARLINK-5065Communications satellite
STARLINK-5483Communications satellite
STARLINK-5502Communications satellite
STARLINK-5510Communications satellite
STARLINK-5501Communications satellite
STARLINK-5469Communications satellite
STARLINK-5494Communications satellite
STARLINK-5506Communications satellite
STARLINK-5067Communications satellite
STARLINK-5070Communications satellite
STARLINK-5267Communications satellite
STARLINK-5328Communications satellite
STARLINK-5307Communications satellite
STARLINK-5477Communications satellite
STARLINK-5467Communications satellite
STARLINK-5475Communications satellite
STARLINK-5479Communications satellite
STARLINK-5473Communications satellite
STARLINK-5480Communications satellite
STARLINK-5474Communications satellite
STARLINK-5456Communications satellite
STARLINK-5455Communications satellite
STARLINK-5459Communications satellite
STARLINK-5423Communications satellite
STARLINK-5460Communications satellite
STARLINK-5463Communications satellite
STARLINK-5462Communications satellite
STARLINK-5232Communications satellite
STARLINK-5300Communications satellite
STARLINK-5324Communications 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 5487539 to 542 km95 minutes305 kg2023
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, 2:00 PM, 12 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-5487",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2023-021AA",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-11T14:00:01.999872",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.08020481,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00021995,
  "INCLINATION": 69.9997,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 281.7678,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 274.6389,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 251.5957,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 55652,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 575,
  "BSTAR": -0.00076700131,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00011914,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}