Starlink 36656

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/67841

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-36656
  • NORAD 67841
  • 2026-033W
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 36656 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Indian Ocean

Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 36656 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 36656, 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 Great Australian Bight LIVE

Where is Starlink 36656?

At 6:19:11 AM UTC Starlink 36656 was over the Great Australian Bight (36.2° S, 124.6° E), 492 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 36656?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Feb 16, 2026.

Can I see Starlink 36656?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 36656, 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
6:19 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:19 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
36.2° S, 124.6° E
Altitude
492 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,432 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In sunlight until 6:39 AM UTC
Inclination
43°
Orbital period
94.3 minutes
Orbits per day
15.28
This orbit
484 to 486 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,550 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 9, 2026, 12:00 PM, 18 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 9, 2026, 12:00 PM, 18 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 36656, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 36656 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 9, 2026, 9:18 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

Starlink 36656 shares its launch, 2026-033, with 28 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-36644Communications satellite
STARLINK-36643Communications satellite
STARLINK-36646Communications satellite
STARLINK-36647Communications satellite
STARLINK-36648Communications satellite
STARLINK-35865Communications satellite
STARLINK-36289Communications satellite
STARLINK-36670Communications satellite
STARLINK-36144Communications satellite
STARLINK-36611Communications satellite
STARLINK-36661Communications satellite
STARLINK-36662Communications satellite
STARLINK-36659Communications satellite
STARLINK-36655Communications satellite
STARLINK-36657Communications satellite
STARLINK-36650Communications satellite
STARLINK-36649Communications satellite
STARLINK-36654Communications satellite
STARLINK-36652Communications satellite
STARLINK-36651Communications satellite
STARLINK-36653Communications satellite
STARLINK-36589Communications satellite
STARLINK-36598Communications satellite
STARLINK-36606Communications satellite
STARLINK-36658Communications satellite
STARLINK-36618Communications satellite
STARLINK-36660Communications satellite
STARLINK-36602Communications 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 36656484 to 486 km94 minutes575 kg2026
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, 12:00 PM, 18 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-36656",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-033W",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-09T12:00:02.000160",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.27538643,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00013791,
  "INCLINATION": 43.0033,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 324.4383,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 281.5131,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 136.2827,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 67841,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 581,
  "BSTAR": 0.0025759198,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00071218,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}