Startical IOD-2

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  • Communications satellite
  • IOD2_STARTICAL
  • NORAD 64538
  • 2025-135L
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Startical IOD-2 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the People's Republic of China

Orbit ends over Mongolia

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Startical IOD-2 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 Startical IOD-2, 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 Argentina LIVE

Where is Startical IOD-2?

At 4:56:10 PM UTC Startical IOD-2 was over Argentina (29.1° S, 59.9° W), 516 km up, moving at 7.6 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Startical IOD-2?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 23, 2025.

Can I see Startical IOD-2?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Startical IOD-2, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Startical S.L.
State
Spain (Kingdom of)
Built by
NanoAvionics
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
100 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
4:56 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:56 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
29.1° S, 59.9° W
Altitude
516 km
Speed
7.6 km/s (27,367 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 5:23 PM UTC
Inclination
97.5°
Orbital period
94.7 minutes
Orbits per day
15.21
This orbit
495 to 503 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,600 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 6:52 AM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 6:52 AM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Startical IOD-2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Startical IOD-2 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 1:11 PM, 3 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

Startical IOD-2 shares its launch, 2025-135, with 66 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
GOOD ANCESTOR KILAKILACommunications satellite
GHGSAT-C12Earth-watching satellite
DUTHSAT-2Satellite
OBJECT DEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT ESatellite
TPA-1Satellite
CONNECTA IOT-9Communications satellite
UND ROADS 1Satellite
FOSSASAT2E21Communications satellite
OTTER PUP 2Satellite
ELARA 1Earth-watching satellite
ARCSTONESpace telescope
PULSAR-0Navigation satellite
USPWSA-DRAGOONCommunications satellite
SKYBEE-A02Earth-watching satellite
ION SCV-020Satellite
FORGESTAR-1Satellite
OBJECT VEarth-watching satellite
GHGSAT-C13Earth-watching satellite
UND ROADS 2Satellite
BRO-18Satellite
SATMARCommunications satellite
HYPERFIELD-1BEarth-watching satellite
CONNECTA IOT-12Communications satellite
OBJECT ACEarth-watching satellite
CONNECTA IOT-10Communications satellite
OBJECT AEEarth-watching satellite
CONNECTA IOT-11Communications satellite
QUICK3Satellite
PADRESpace telescope
OBJECT AJCommunications satellite
LEMUR 2 KRISHCommunications satellite
HUBBLE 6Communications satellite
AE3VACommunications satellite
TIME FLIESNavigation satellite
LEMUR 2 HUBBLE-4Communications satellite
ARVAKER-3Satellite
ARVAKER-2Satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-3Earth-watching satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-2Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X54Earth-watching satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-5Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X52Earth-watching satellite
MUSAT3Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X56Earth-watching satellite
ION SCV-018Satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-6Earth-watching satellite
LYRA-3Communications satellite
ICEYE-X57Earth-watching satellite
GRUS-3ALPHAEarth-watching satellite
YAM-10Satellite
ICEYE-X55Earth-watching satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-4Earth-watching satellite
CAPELLA-17 (ACADIA)Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X53Earth-watching satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-9Earth-watching satellite
LEMUR 2 SEJONG-2Earth-watching satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-8Earth-watching satellite
BIFROST-DNKEarth-watching satellite
SATORO-T3Satellite
OBJECT BQSatellite
AE2AEarth-watching satellite
HUBBLE 7Communications satellite
LEMUR 2 HUBBLE-5Communications satellite
LEMUR 2 KARENDARRELLCommunications satellite
LEMUR-2-LUCILLE-ROSECommunications 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
Startical IOD-2495 to 503 km95 minutes100 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 7, 2026, 6:52 AM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "IOD2_STARTICAL",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-135L",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T06:52:12.407808",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.2131809,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00055408,
  "INCLINATION": 97.4831,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 64.7614,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 50.687,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 309.4856,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 64538,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 7657,
  "BSTAR": 0.00022980352,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00005075,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}