Starlink 37050

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/68228

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-37050
  • NORAD 68228
  • 2026-053X
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 37050 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Kara Sea

Orbit ends over the Barents Sea

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 37050 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 37050, 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 Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is Starlink 37050?

At 4:21:23 AM UTC Starlink 37050 was over the Indian Ocean (2.8° S, 72.9° E), 469 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 37050?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Mar 17, 2026.

Can I see Starlink 37050?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 37050, 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
4:21 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:21 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
2.8° S, 72.9° E
Altitude
469 km
Speed
7.63 km/s (27,475 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight until 4:45 AM UTC
Inclination
97.3°
Orbital period
93.9 minutes
Orbits per day
15.33
This orbit
461 to 464 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,500 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 9, 2026, 12:00 PM, 16 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 9, 2026, 12:00 PM, 16 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 37050, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 37050 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.

Launched with

Starlink 37050 shares its launch, 2026-053, with 23 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-36986Communications satellite
STARLINK-37009Communications satellite
STARLINK-36948Communications satellite
STARLINK-37119Communications satellite
STARLINK-37120Communications satellite
STARLINK-37117Communications satellite
STARLINK-37116Communications satellite
STARLINK-35854Communications satellite
STARLINK-36272Communications satellite
STARLINK-37014Communications satellite
STARLINK-37011Communications satellite
STARLINK-37108Communications satellite
STARLINK-37106Communications satellite
STARLINK-37030Communications satellite
STARLINK-37012Communications satellite
STARLINK-37110Communications satellite
STARLINK-37025Communications satellite
STARLINK-36960Communications satellite
STARLINK-37038Communications satellite
STARLINK-37083Communications satellite
STARLINK-37081Communications satellite
STARLINK-37100Communications satellite
STARLINK-37104Communications 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 37050461 to 464 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, 16 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-37050",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-053X",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-09T12:00:02.000160",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.33375862,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0002023,
  "INCLINATION": 97.2841,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 186.6179,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 78.871,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 118.8065,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 68228,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 581,
  "BSTAR": 0.0021500056,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0006983,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}