Starlink 31863

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/59789

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-31863
  • NORAD 59789
  • 2024-093H
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 31863 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 31863 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 31863, 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 Guinea LIVE

Where is Starlink 31863?

At 1:20:46 PM UTC Starlink 31863 was over the Gulf of Guinea (1.1° N, 4.8° E), 483 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 31863?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 18, 2024.

Can I see Starlink 31863?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 31863, 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
1:20 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
1:20 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
1.1° N, 4.8° E
Altitude
483 km
Speed
7.63 km/s (27,454 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In sunlight until 1:41 PM UTC
Inclination
43°
Orbital period
94.3 minutes
Orbits per day
15.28
This orbit
484 to 486 km
In shadow
36 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,530 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 10, 2026, 1:47 PM, 23 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 10, 2026, 1:47 PM, 23 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 31863, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 31863 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, 5 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 31863 shares its launch, 2024-093, with 19 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-31363Communications satellite
STARLINK-31868Communications satellite
STARLINK-31848Communications satellite
STARLINK-31890Communications satellite
STARLINK-31862Communications satellite
STARLINK-31870Communications satellite
STARLINK-31888Communications satellite
STARLINK-31873Communications satellite
STARLINK-31865Communications satellite
STARLINK-31823Communications satellite
STARLINK-31916Communications satellite
STARLINK-31907Communications satellite
STARLINK-31687Communications satellite
STARLINK-31810Communications satellite
STARLINK-31812Communications satellite
STARLINK-31815Communications satellite
STARLINK-31814Communications satellite
STARLINK-31794Communications satellite
STARLINK-31824Communications 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 31863484 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 10, 2026, 1:47 PM, 23 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-31863",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-093H",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-10T13:47:59.301024",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.27573401,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0001182,
  "INCLINATION": 43.0051,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 259.9863,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 277.1002,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 82.9715,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 59789,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 14030,
  "BSTAR": 0.000034545,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000688,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}