Starlink 34909

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/65401

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-34909
  • NORAD 65401
  • 2025-191Y
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 34909 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Bering Sea

Orbit ends over the Bering Sea

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

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In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 34909 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 34909, 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 Arctic Ocean LIVE

Where is Starlink 34909?

At 7:35:37 PM UTC Starlink 34909 was over the Arctic Ocean (82.6° N, 94.8° E), 476 km up, moving at 7.64 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Starlink 34909?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 30, 2025.

Can I see Starlink 34909?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 34909, 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
7:35 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
7:35 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
82.6° N, 94.8° E
Altitude
476 km
Speed
7.64 km/s (27,490 km/h)
Course
west
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 8:06 PM UTC
Inclination
97.3°
Orbital period
93.9 minutes
Orbits per day
15.33
This orbit
459 to 466 km
In shadow
32 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,510 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 10, 2026, 3:32 AM, 16 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 10, 2026, 3:32 AM, 16 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 34909, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 34909 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 10, 2026, 5:56 AM, 13 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

Starlink 34909 shares its launch, 2025-191, with 23 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-34985Communications satellite
STARLINK-35051Communications satellite
STARLINK-35028Communications satellite
STARLINK-35032Communications satellite
STARLINK-35054Communications satellite
STARLINK-35012Communications satellite
STARLINK-35073Communications satellite
STARLINK-35066Communications satellite
STARLINK-34703Communications satellite
STARLINK-34957Communications satellite
STARLINK-34993Communications satellite
STARLINK-35083Communications satellite
STARLINK-34786Communications satellite
STARLINK-35082Communications satellite
STARLINK-35097Communications satellite
STARLINK-35058Communications satellite
STARLINK-35094Communications satellite
STARLINK-34811Communications satellite
STARLINK-34940Communications satellite
STARLINK-34931Communications satellite
STARLINK-34836Communications satellite
STARLINK-34876Communications satellite
STARLINK-34848Communications 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 34909459 to 466 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, 3:32 AM, 16 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-34909",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-191Y",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-10T03:32:08.539584",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.33453455,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00050007,
  "INCLINATION": 97.28,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 179.505,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 58.6206,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 301.5526,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 65401,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 6741,
  "BSTAR": 0.00092948275,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0003007,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}