Starlink 6056

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/56813

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-6056
  • NORAD 56813
  • 2023-078AY
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 6056 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Southern Ocean

Orbit ends over the Southern Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 6056 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 6056, 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 Southern Ocean LIVE

Where is Starlink 6056?

At 12:22:48 AM UTC Starlink 6056 was over the Southern Ocean (65.4° S, 28.8° W), 547 km up, moving at 7.59 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 6056?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 31, 2023.

Can I see Starlink 6056?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 6056, 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
12:22 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
12:22 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
65.4° S, 28.8° W
Altitude
547 km
Speed
7.59 km/s (27,320 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In sunlight until 12:28 AM UTC
Inclination
70°
Orbital period
95.1 minutes
Orbits per day
15.14
This orbit
520 to 526 km
In shadow
33 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,660 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 11, 2026, 2:00 PM, 10 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 11, 2026, 2:00 PM, 10 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 6056, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 6056 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 6056 shares its launch, 2023-078, with 43 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-6197Communications satellite
STARLINK-6198Communications satellite
STARLINK-6342Communications satellite
STARLINK-6275Communications satellite
STARLINK-6296Communications satellite
STARLINK-6190Communications satellite
STARLINK-6292Communications satellite
STARLINK-6274Communications satellite
STARLINK-5582Communications satellite
STARLINK-6304Communications satellite
STARLINK-6231Communications satellite
STARLINK-5963Communications satellite
STARLINK-5989Communications satellite
STARLINK-6352Communications satellite
STARLINK-6357Communications satellite
STARLINK-6354Communications satellite
STARLINK-5931Communications satellite
STARLINK-6341Communications satellite
STARLINK-6326Communications satellite
STARLINK-6336Communications satellite
STARLINK-6345Communications satellite
STARLINK-5977Communications satellite
STARLINK-6046Communications satellite
STARLINK-6052Communications satellite
STARLINK-6060Communications satellite
STARLINK-6061Communications satellite
STARLINK-6049Communications satellite
STARLINK-6058Communications satellite
STARLINK-5953Communications satellite
STARLINK-6036Communications satellite
STARLINK-6087Communications satellite
STARLINK-6029Communications satellite
STARLINK-6069Communications satellite
STARLINK-6064Communications satellite
STARLINK-6072Communications satellite
STARLINK-6073Communications satellite
STARLINK-6042Communications satellite
STARLINK-6040Communications satellite
STARLINK-6031Communications satellite
STARLINK-6065Communications satellite
STARLINK-6059Communications satellite
STARLINK-6067Communications satellite
STARLINK-6028Communications 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 6056520 to 526 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, 10 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-6056",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2023-078AY",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-11T14:00:01.999872",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.13659541,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00036905,
  "INCLINATION": 70.0014,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 81.4094,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 274.4189,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 174.4636,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 56813,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 570,
  "BSTAR": -0.00088618833,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00016046,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}