Starlink 33837

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/63501

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-33837
  • NORAD 63501
  • 2025-071J
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 33837 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Kazakhstan

Orbit ends over Kazakhstan

In the Earth’s shadow since

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In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 33837 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 33837, 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 Nigeria LIVE

Where is Starlink 33837?

At 1:45:39 AM UTC Starlink 33837 was over Nigeria (8° N, 3.4° E), 470 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Starlink 33837?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Apr 7, 2025.

Can I see Starlink 33837?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 33837, 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
575 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
1:45 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
1:45 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
8° N, 3.4° E
Altitude
470 km
Speed
7.63 km/s (27,479 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 1:59 AM UTC
Inclination
53.2°
Orbital period
94 minutes
Orbits per day
15.32
This orbit
470 to 472 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,500 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 9, 2026, 10:00 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 9, 2026, 10:00 PM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 33837, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 33837 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 10, 2026, 11:20 PM, 59 minutes 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 33837 shares its launch, 2025-071, with 26 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-33828Communications satellite
STARLINK-33819Communications satellite
STARLINK-33845Communications satellite
STARLINK-33829Communications satellite
STARLINK-33815Communications satellite
STARLINK-33833Communications satellite
STARLINK-33534Communications satellite
STARLINK-33838Communications satellite
STARLINK-33818Communications satellite
STARLINK-33583Communications satellite
STARLINK-33811Communications satellite
STARLINK-33825Communications satellite
STARLINK-33792Communications satellite
STARLINK-33843Communications satellite
STARLINK-33809Communications satellite
STARLINK-33678Communications satellite
STARLINK-33764Communications satellite
STARLINK-33804Communications satellite
STARLINK-33751Communications satellite
STARLINK-33750Communications satellite
STARLINK-33786Communications satellite
STARLINK-33796Communications satellite
STARLINK-33785Communications satellite
STARLINK-33803Communications satellite
STARLINK-33807Communications satellite
STARLINK-33787Communications 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 33837470 to 472 km94 minutes575 kg2025
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 9, 2026, 10:00 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-33837",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-071J",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-09T22:00:01.999584",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.31699143,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00015653,
  "INCLINATION": 53.1585,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 79.3543,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 65.5876,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 42.8197,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 63501,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 577,
  "BSTAR": 0.00037491191,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00011286,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}