Starlink 32278

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/60356

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-32278
  • NORAD 60356
  • 2024-138B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 32278 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Sea of Okhotsk

Orbit ends over the People's Republic of China

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

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In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 32278 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 32278, 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 Malawi LIVE

Where is Starlink 32278?

At 9:57:40 AM UTC Starlink 32278 was over Malawi (9.8° S, 33.3° E), 466 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 32278?

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

Can I see Starlink 32278?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 32278, 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
9:57 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
9:57 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
9.8° S, 33.3° E
Altitude
466 km
Speed
7.63 km/s (27,482 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In sunlight until 10:23 AM UTC
Inclination
53.2°
Orbital period
93.8 minutes
Orbits per day
15.34
This orbit
462 to 464 km
In shadow
36 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,490 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 10, 2026, 12:07 PM, 21 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 10, 2026, 12:07 PM, 21 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 32278, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 32278 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, 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 32278 shares its launch, 2024-138, with 20 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-32285Communications satellite
STARLINK-32287Communications satellite
STARLINK-32290Communications satellite
STARLINK-32275Communications satellite
STARLINK-32227Communications satellite
STARLINK-32256Communications satellite
STARLINK-32267Communications satellite
STARLINK-32270Communications satellite
STARLINK-32188Communications satellite
STARLINK-32230Communications satellite
STARLINK-32243Communications satellite
STARLINK-32271Communications satellite
STARLINK-32220Communications satellite
STARLINK-32263Communications satellite
STARLINK-32268Communications satellite
STARLINK-32223Communications satellite
STARLINK-32180Communications satellite
STARLINK-32281Communications satellite
STARLINK-32277Communications satellite
STARLINK-32269Communications 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 32278462 to 464 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, 12:07 PM, 21 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-32278",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-138B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-10T12:07:43.643136",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.34390413,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0001,
  "INCLINATION": 53.16,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 244.9328,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 85.8087,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 274.303,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 60356,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 12830,
  "BSTAR": 0.00006755,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001906,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}