Starlink 6171

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/56883

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-6171
  • NORAD 56883
  • 2023-083H
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 6171 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 6171 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 6171, 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 Japan LIVE

Where is Starlink 6171?

At 11:59:01 PM UTC Starlink 6171 was over Japan (40.1° N, 141.1° E), 486 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 6171?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 12, 2023.

Can I see Starlink 6171?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 6171, 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
11:59 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
11:59 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
40.1° N, 141.1° E
Altitude
486 km
Speed
7.63 km/s (27,461 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In sunlight until 12:44 AM UTC
Inclination
43°
Orbital period
94.3 minutes
Orbits per day
15.28
This orbit
484 to 486 km
In shadow
22 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,530 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 11, 2026, 4:50 AM, 19 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 11, 2026, 4:50 AM, 19 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 6171, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 6171 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 11, 2026, 1:30 PM, 2 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 6171 shares its launch, 2023-083, with 51 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-6206Communications satellite
STARLINK-6209Communications satellite
STARLINK-6182Communications satellite
STARLINK-5707Communications satellite
STARLINK-6177Communications satellite
STARLINK-5853Communications satellite
STARLINK-6175Communications satellite
STARLINK-5515Communications satellite
STARLINK-5095Communications satellite
STARLINK-5496Communications satellite
STARLINK-6180Communications satellite
STARLINK-6181Communications satellite
STARLINK-6169Communications satellite
STARLINK-5528Communications satellite
STARLINK-6213Communications satellite
STARLINK-6219Communications satellite
STARLINK-6216Communications satellite
STARLINK-6144Communications satellite
STARLINK-6208Communications satellite
STARLINK-6202Communications satellite
STARLINK-6200Communications satellite
STARLINK-6205Communications satellite
STARLINK-6203Communications satellite
STARLINK-6207Communications satellite
STARLINK-6185Communications satellite
STARLINK-6195Communications satellite
STARLINK-6192Communications satellite
STARLINK-6193Communications satellite
STARLINK-6183Communications satellite
STARLINK-6098Communications satellite
STARLINK-6110Communications satellite
STARLINK-6186Communications satellite
STARLINK-5999Communications satellite
STARLINK-6179Communications satellite
STARLINK-6116Communications satellite
STARLINK-5805Communications satellite
STARLINK-5950Communications satellite
STARLINK-5961Communications satellite
STARLINK-5965Satellite
STARLINK-5973Communications satellite
STARLINK-5971Communications satellite
STARLINK-5951Communications satellite
STARLINK-5966Communications satellite
STARLINK-5960Communications satellite
STARLINK-5958Communications satellite
STARLINK-5937Communications satellite
STARLINK-5952Communications satellite
STARLINK-5731Communications satellite
STARLINK-5733Communications satellite
STARLINK-5746Communications satellite
STARLINK-5808Communications 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 6171484 to 486 km94 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, 4:50 AM, 19 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-6171",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2023-083H",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-11T04:50:49.126272",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.27576377,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00007883,
  "INCLINATION": 43.0021,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 132.8193,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 269.9264,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 90.1497,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 56883,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 18933,
  "BSTAR": 0.000015495415,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000164,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}