Starlink 33880

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/63686

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-33880
  • NORAD 63686
  • 2025-085Y
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 33880 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

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 33880 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 33880, 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 33880?

At 1:36:12 AM UTC Starlink 33880 was over the Pacific Ocean (20.2° N, 162.3° E), 483 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 33880?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Apr 28, 2025.

Can I see Starlink 33880?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 33880, 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
1:36 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
1:36 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
20.2° N, 162.3° E
Altitude
483 km
Speed
7.63 km/s (27,457 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In sunlight until 2:11 AM UTC
Inclination
43°
Orbital period
94.3 minutes
Orbits per day
15.28
This orbit
484 to 486 km
In shadow
33 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,530 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 10, 2026, 12:00 AM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 10, 2026, 12:00 AM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 33880, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 33880 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.

Launched with

Starlink 33880 shares its launch, 2025-085, with 20 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-11651Communications satellite
STARLINK-11672Communications satellite
STARLINK-11666Communications satellite
STARLINK-11663Communications satellite
STARLINK-11595Communications satellite
STARLINK-11599Communications satellite
STARLINK-11603Communications satellite
STARLINK-11644Communications satellite
STARLINK-11634Communications satellite
STARLINK-11656Communications satellite
STARLINK-11655Communications satellite
STARLINK-11661Communications satellite
STARLINK-33816Communications satellite
STARLINK-33861Communications satellite
STARLINK-33850Communications satellite
STARLINK-33887Communications satellite
STARLINK-33886Communications satellite
STARLINK-33840Communications satellite
STARLINK-33853Communications satellite
STARLINK-33847Communications 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 33880484 to 486 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 10, 2026, 12:00 AM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-33880",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-085Y",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-10T00:00:02.000160",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.27588861,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00014906,
  "INCLINATION": 42.9996,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 85.728,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 275.3678,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 120.8601,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 63686,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 578,
  "BSTAR": -0.0003380746,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00009556,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}