Starlink 33956

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/63927

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-33956
  • NORAD 63927
  • 2025-098B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 33956 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Southern Ocean

Orbit ends over the Southern Ocean

In the Earth’s shadow since

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In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 33956 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 33956, 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 33956?

At 1:21:57 AM UTC Starlink 33956 was over the Pacific Ocean (18.3° S, 73° W), 480 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Starlink 33956?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 13, 2025.

Can I see Starlink 33956?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 33956, 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
1:21 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
1:21 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
18.3° S, 73° W
Altitude
480 km
Speed
7.63 km/s (27,450 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 1:53 AM UTC
Inclination
70°
Orbital period
94.1 minutes
Orbits per day
15.3
This orbit
470 to 475 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,520 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 9, 2026, 9:12 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 9, 2026, 9:12 PM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 33956, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 33956 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 33956 shares its launch, 2025-098, with 25 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-34012Communications satellite
STARLINK-33997Communications satellite
STARLINK-33989Communications satellite
STARLINK-33980Communications satellite
STARLINK-33994Communications satellite
STARLINK-33971Communications satellite
STARLINK-33877Communications satellite
STARLINK-33895Communications satellite
STARLINK-34005Communications satellite
STARLINK-34027Communications satellite
STARLINK-34035Communications satellite
STARLINK-33988Communications satellite
STARLINK-34020Communications satellite
STARLINK-34021Communications satellite
STARLINK-34004Communications satellite
STARLINK-34014Communications satellite
STARLINK-33985Communications satellite
STARLINK-33996Communications satellite
STARLINK-34036Communications satellite
STARLINK-34039Communications satellite
STARLINK-34034Communications satellite
STARLINK-33983Communications satellite
STARLINK-33993Communications satellite
STARLINK-33962Communications satellite
STARLINK-33998Communications 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 33956470 to 475 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, 9:12 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-33956",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-098B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-09T21:12:53.972928",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.30409368,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00034695,
  "INCLINATION": 70.0023,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 7.7239,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 273.5133,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 86.5646,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 63927,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 8350,
  "BSTAR": 0.00063051786,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00018511,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}