- NORAD 56915
- 2023-083AR
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches STARLINK-5965 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-5965, 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 to see with the naked eye from anywhere on Earth.
Summary
Over South Africa LIVE
Where is STARLINK-5965?
At 12:09:24 AM UTC STARLINK-5965 was over South Africa (27° S, 27.5° E), 489 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is STARLINK-5965?
A satellite in low Earth orbit.
Can I see STARLINK-5965?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for STARLINK-5965, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Orbit class
- Low Earth orbit
The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 12:09 AM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 12:09 AM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 27° S, 27.5° E
- Altitude
- 489 km
- Speed
- 7.62 km/s (27,436 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 12:20 AM UTC
- Inclination
- 43°
- Orbital period
- 94.3 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.28
- This orbit
- 484 to 486 km
- In shadow
- 26 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,540 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 11, 2026, 3:56 AM, 20 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 11, 2026, 3:56 AM, 20 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for STARLINK-5965, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to STARLINK-5965 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.
Launched with
STARLINK-5965 shares its launch, 2023-083, with 51 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| STARLINK-6206 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6209 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6182 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5707 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6177 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5853 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6175 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6171 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5515 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5095 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5496 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6180 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6181 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6169 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5528 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6213 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6219 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6216 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6144 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6208 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6202 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6200 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6205 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6203 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6207 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6185 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6195 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6192 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6193 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6183 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6098 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6110 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6186 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5999 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6179 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-6116 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5805 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5950 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5961 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5973 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5971 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5951 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5966 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5960 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5958 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5937 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5952 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5731 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5733 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5746 | Communications satellite |
| STARLINK-5808 | Communications 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 11, 2026, 3:56 AM, 20 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-5965",
"OBJECT_ID": "2023-083AR",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-11T03:56:14.853120",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.27575678,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.0000956,
"INCLINATION": 43.0016,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 118.6841,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 271.8872,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 88.1871,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 56915,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 18949,
"BSTAR": 0.000022785,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000365,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}