Starlink 31038

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/58605

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-31038
  • NORAD 58605
  • 2023-200S
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 31038 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Indian Ocean

Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean

In the Earth’s shadow since

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Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 31038 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 31038, 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 Chad LIVE

Where is Starlink 31038?

At 6:15:28 PM UTC Starlink 31038 was over Chad (19.1° N, 18.3° E), 365 km up, moving at 7.7 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Starlink 31038?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 19, 2023.

Can I see Starlink 31038?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 31038, 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
6:15 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:15 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
19.1° N, 18.3° E
Altitude
365 km
Speed
7.7 km/s (27,702 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 6:44 PM UTC
Inclination
43°
Orbital period
91.9 minutes
Orbits per day
15.67
This orbit
350 to 387 km
In shadow
33 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,260 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 11, 2026, 12:00 PM, 6 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 11, 2026, 12:00 PM, 6 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 31038, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 31038 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 31038 shares its launch, 2023-200, with 19 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-31044Communications satellite
STARLINK-31062Communications satellite
STARLINK-31096Communications satellite
STARLINK-31094Communications satellite
STARLINK-31075Communications satellite
STARLINK-30857Communications satellite
STARLINK-31059Communications satellite
STARLINK-31087Communications satellite
STARLINK-31052Communications satellite
STARLINK-31074Communications satellite
STARLINK-31071Communications satellite
STARLINK-31080Communications satellite
STARLINK-31088Communications satellite
STARLINK-31082Communications satellite
STARLINK-31069Communications satellite
STARLINK-31067Communications satellite
STARLINK-31085Communications satellite
STARLINK-31089Communications satellite
STARLINK-31061Communications 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 31038350 to 387 km92 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, 6 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-31038",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2023-200S",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-11T12:00:02.000160",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.67338682,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0026911,
  "INCLINATION": 42.9905,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 186.2559,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 236.7082,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 242.1918,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 58605,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 587,
  "BSTAR": 0.00082714,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00094273,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}