Starlink 30861

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/58230

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-30861
  • NORAD 58230
  • 2023-171A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 30861 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Kyrgyzstan

Orbit ends over the Caspian Sea

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

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In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 30861 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 30861, 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 East China Sea LIVE

Where is Starlink 30861?

At 7:13:37 PM UTC Starlink 30861 was over the East China Sea (27.7° N, 123° E), 410 km up, moving at 7.68 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Starlink 30861?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 8, 2023.

Can I see Starlink 30861?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 30861, 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
730 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
7:13 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
7:13 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
27.7° N, 123° E
Altitude
410 km
Speed
7.68 km/s (27,630 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 7:19 PM UTC
Inclination
43°
Orbital period
93 minutes
Orbits per day
15.49
This orbit
408 to 434 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,370 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 11, 2026, 12:00 PM, 7 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 11, 2026, 12:00 PM, 7 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 30861, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 30861 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 30861 shares its launch, 2023-171, with 21 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-30867Communications satellite
STARLINK-30880Communications satellite
STARLINK-30777Communications satellite
STARLINK-30860Communications satellite
STARLINK-30853Communications satellite
STARLINK-30866Communications satellite
STARLINK-30817Communications satellite
STARLINK-30847Communications satellite
STARLINK-30848Communications satellite
STARLINK-30843Communications satellite
STARLINK-30877Communications satellite
STARLINK-30864Communications satellite
STARLINK-30854Communications satellite
STARLINK-30849Communications satellite
STARLINK-30886Communications satellite
STARLINK-30850Communications satellite
STARLINK-30823Communications satellite
STARLINK-30873Communications satellite
STARLINK-30808Communications satellite
STARLINK-30881Communications satellite
STARLINK-30883Communications 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 30861408 to 434 km93 minutes730 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, 12:00 PM, 7 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-30861",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2023-171A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-11T12:00:02.000160",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.49095218,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0019094,
  "INCLINATION": 42.9857,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 318.1985,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 90.9678,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 164.7956,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 58230,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 587,
  "BSTAR": 0.0036323,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00208682,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}