Starlink 31202

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/59042

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-31202
  • NORAD 59042
  • 2024-038V
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 31202 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

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 31202 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 31202, 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 Gulf of Mexico LIVE

Where is Starlink 31202?

At 5:07:53 PM UTC Starlink 31202 was over the Gulf of Mexico (28.2° N, 95.1° W), 494 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 31202?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Feb 25, 2024.

Can I see Starlink 31202?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 31202, 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
5:07 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:07 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
28.2° N, 95.1° W
Altitude
494 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,439 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In sunlight until 5:48 PM UTC
Inclination
43°
Orbital period
94.5 minutes
Orbits per day
15.24
This orbit
494 to 496 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,550 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 10, 2026, 3:22 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 10, 2026, 3:22 PM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 31202, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 31202 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 31202 shares its launch, 2024-038, with 22 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-30996Communications satellite
STARLINK-31006Communications satellite
STARLINK-31178Communications satellite
STARLINK-30863Communications satellite
STARLINK-31206Communications satellite
STARLINK-31224Communications satellite
STARLINK-31186Communications satellite
STARLINK-31211Communications satellite
STARLINK-30862Communications satellite
STARLINK-31210Communications satellite
STARLINK-31231Communications satellite
STARLINK-31207Communications satellite
STARLINK-31217Communications satellite
STARLINK-31208Communications satellite
STARLINK-31235Communications satellite
STARLINK-31220Communications satellite
STARLINK-31225Communications satellite
STARLINK-31240Communications satellite
STARLINK-31234Communications satellite
STARLINK-31153Communications satellite
STARLINK-31241Communications satellite
STARLINK-31205Communications 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 31202494 to 496 km95 minutes730 kg2024
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 10, 2026, 3:22 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-31202",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-038V",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-10T15:22:25.372416",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.24288049,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0001342,
  "INCLINATION": 42.9997,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 73.6739,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 274.3086,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 85.7611,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 59042,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 15248,
  "BSTAR": -0.00032193,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00008264,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}