Starlink 5873

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/56490

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-5873
  • NORAD 56490
  • 2023-064AU
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 5873 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 Atlantic Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 5873 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 5873, 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 5873?

At 1:11:12 AM UTC Starlink 5873 was over the Indian Ocean (42.2° S, 112.7° E), 569 km up, moving at 7.58 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 5873?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 10, 2023.

Can I see Starlink 5873?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 5873, 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
1:11 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
1:11 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
42.2° S, 112.7° E
Altitude
569 km
Speed
7.58 km/s (27,270 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In sunlight until 1:51 AM UTC
Inclination
70°
Orbital period
95.7 minutes
Orbits per day
15.04
This orbit
551 to 554 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,700 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 11, 2026, 2:00 PM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 11, 2026, 2:00 PM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 5873, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 5873 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 5873 shares its launch, 2023-064, with 48 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-5990Communications satellite
STARLINK-5993Communications satellite
STARLINK-5970Communications satellite
STARLINK-5985Communications satellite
STARLINK-5986Communications satellite
STARLINK-5935Communications satellite
STARLINK-5959Communications satellite
STARLINK-5987Communications satellite
STARLINK-5995Communications satellite
STARLINK-5994Communications satellite
STARLINK-6050Communications satellite
STARLINK-6048Communications satellite
STARLINK-6047Communications satellite
STARLINK-6037Communications satellite
STARLINK-6045Communications satellite
STARLINK-6051Communications satellite
STARLINK-6043Communications satellite
STARLINK-6054Communications satellite
STARLINK-6053Communications satellite
STARLINK-6055Communications satellite
STARLINK-5998Communications satellite
STARLINK-5518Communications satellite
STARLINK-5523Communications satellite
STARLINK-5521Communications satellite
STARLINK-5038Communications satellite
STARLINK-5524Communications satellite
STARLINK-5541Communications satellite
STARLINK-5545Communications satellite
STARLINK-5534Communications satellite
STARLINK-6041Communications satellite
STARLINK-6044Communications satellite
STARLINK-6214Communications satellite
STARLINK-6222Communications satellite
STARLINK-6220Communications satellite
STARLINK-5868Communications satellite
STARLINK-6221Communications satellite
STARLINK-6210Communications satellite
STARLINK-6196Communications satellite
STARLINK-6204Communications satellite
STARLINK-5923Communications satellite
STARLINK-5842Communications satellite
STARLINK-5846Communications satellite
STARLINK-5841Communications satellite
STARLINK-5530Communications satellite
STARLINK-5529Communications satellite
STARLINK-5526Communications satellite
STARLINK-5527Communications satellite
STARLINK-5522Communications 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 5873551 to 554 km96 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, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-5873",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2023-064AU",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-11T14:00:01.999872",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.04139151,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00022824,
  "INCLINATION": 69.9999,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 202.048,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 230.0273,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 81.4027,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 56490,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 565,
  "BSTAR": 0.007427743,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00104661,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}