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STARLINK-38473 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 101029)

Track STARLINK-38473 (NORAD catalog number 101029) live on the WatchSat interactive 3D globe above. Its position is propagated in real time from the latest CelesTrak two-line element set using the SGP4/SDP4 orbital model — the same math professional trackers run. It is object AB of 2026's 232nd orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2026-232AB). It went up together with 26 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog.

Moving at about 7.71 km/s, STARLINK-38473 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 329 × 334 km, completing one revolution every 91.0 minutes — about 15.8 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0003). Inclined 70.0° to the equator, it overflies every latitude up to about 70° north and south. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 80.2°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane westward about 2.87° per day.

Orbital elements

Orbit regime	low Earth orbit (LEO)
Perigee × apogee altitude	~329 km × 334 km
Inclination	70.00°
Orbital period	91.0 min (15.82 rev/day)
Eccentricity	0.00035
Element set epoch	2026-10-21
COSPAR designation	2026-232AB
NORAD catalog number	101029

This page's orbital elements come from the CelesTrak catalog of 2026-10-23. The live 3D view above fetches its own current CelesTrak data when the page opens, through an edge cache that refreshes roughly every 30 minutes.

About the Starlink group

STARLINK-38473 is one of 11,148 SpaceX Starlink broadband satellites in the current WatchSat catalog — the largest satellite constellation ever flown. Its satellites fly in low-Earth-orbit shells, at a median altitude of about 470 km in this catalog. See the whole Starlink constellation move live in 3D.

Can you see STARLINK-38473 from the ground?

Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, STARLINK-38473 is visible only around dawn and dusk, when your sky is dark but the satellite is still sunlit — and whether you can spot it depends on its size and reflectivity. Newly launched batches are the exception — right after launch they can form a naked-eye Starlink train. Check the launch schedule for what just went up. See the “When can I see it?” panel in the live view for when it is above your horizon and sunlit.

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