Starlink 32179

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/60734

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-32179
  • NORAD 60734
  • 2024-152Q
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 32179 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Turkey

Orbit ends over the Ionian Sea

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 32179 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 32179, 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 Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Starlink 32179?

At 10:02:59 AM UTC Starlink 32179 was over the Pacific Ocean (13° S, 172.8° W), 468 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Starlink 32179?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 28, 2024.

Can I see Starlink 32179?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 32179, 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
10:02 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
10:02 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
13° S, 172.8° W
Altitude
468 km
Speed
7.63 km/s (27,475 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 10:16 AM UTC
Inclination
53.2°
Orbital period
93.8 minutes
Orbits per day
15.34
This orbit
461 to 465 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,500 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 10, 2026, 12:22 AM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 10, 2026, 12:22 AM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 32179, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 32179 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.

Launched with

Starlink 32179 shares its launch, 2024-152, with 18 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-11247Communications satellite
STARLINK-11259Communications satellite
STARLINK-11188Communications satellite
STARLINK-11272Communications satellite
STARLINK-11261Communications satellite
STARLINK-11263Communications satellite
STARLINK-11235Communications satellite
STARLINK-11080Communications satellite
STARLINK-11249Communications satellite
STARLINK-11146Communications satellite
STARLINK-11255Communications satellite
STARLINK-11254Communications satellite
STARLINK-11266Communications satellite
STARLINK-32253Communications satellite
STARLINK-32289Communications satellite
STARLINK-32304Communications satellite
STARLINK-32235Communications satellite
STARLINK-32315Communications 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 32179461 to 465 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, 12:22 AM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-32179",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-152Q",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-10T00:22:17.793408",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.34402919,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0003277,
  "INCLINATION": 53.1597,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 205.2093,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 45.4026,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 314.7243,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 60734,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 12433,
  "BSTAR": 0.00086957,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00029123,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}