Starlink 31256

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/59161

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-31256
  • NORAD 59161
  • 2024-044K
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 31256 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Tasman Sea

Orbit ends over Australia

In the Earth’s shadow since

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In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 31256 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 31256, 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 Great Australian Bight LIVE

Where is Starlink 31256?

At 4:03:48 PM UTC Starlink 31256 was over the Great Australian Bight (42.3° S, 143.8° E), 495 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Starlink 31256?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Mar 4, 2024.

Can I see Starlink 31256?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 31256, 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
4:03 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:03 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
42.3° S, 143.8° E
Altitude
495 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,425 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 4:05 PM UTC
Inclination
43°
Orbital period
94.3 minutes
Orbits per day
15.28
This orbit
484 to 486 km
In shadow
24 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,550 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 11, 2026, 12:00 AM, 16 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 11, 2026, 12:00 AM, 16 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 31256, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 31256 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 11, 2026, 5:52 AM, 9 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 31256 shares its launch, 2024-044, with 22 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-31312Communications satellite
STARLINK-31308Communications satellite
STARLINK-31270Communications satellite
STARLINK-31341Communications satellite
STARLINK-31338Communications satellite
STARLINK-31334Communications satellite
STARLINK-31297Communications satellite
STARLINK-31182Communications satellite
STARLINK-31327Communications satellite
STARLINK-31272Communications satellite
STARLINK-31278Communications satellite
STARLINK-31309Communications satellite
STARLINK-31325Communications satellite
STARLINK-31342Communications satellite
STARLINK-31298Communications satellite
STARLINK-31322Communications satellite
STARLINK-31329Communications satellite
STARLINK-31340Communications satellite
STARLINK-31344Communications satellite
STARLINK-31348Communications satellite
STARLINK-31289Communications satellite
STARLINK-31283Communications 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 31256484 to 486 km94 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 11, 2026, 12:00 AM, 16 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-31256",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-044K",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-11T00:00:02.999808",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.27542771,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00015673,
  "INCLINATION": 43.0003,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 155.6878,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 278.3104,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 276.8425,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 59161,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 570,
  "BSTAR": 0.002466256,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00068156,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}