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STARLINK-4431 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 53486)

Track STARLINK-4431 (NORAD catalog number 53486) 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 X of 2022's 99th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2022-099X). It went up together with 32 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 23,063 revolutions of Earth.

Moving at about 7.64 km/s, STARLINK-4431 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 462 × 462 km, completing one revolution every 93.7 minutes — about 15.4 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0000). Its 97.4° retrograde, near-polar inclination is characteristic of a Sun-synchronous orbit — the type Earth-imaging and weather satellites use to revisit each spot at the same local solar time. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 62.6°. Earth's equatorial bulge precesses that plane eastward about 1.01° per day, matching the Sun's apparent motion — which is what holds its lighting constant.

Orbital elements

Orbit regime	low Earth orbit (LEO)
Perigee × apogee altitude	~462 km × 462 km
Inclination	97.43°
Orbital period	93.7 min (15.37 rev/day)
Eccentricity	0.00004
Element set epoch	2026-10-21
COSPAR designation	2022-099X
NORAD catalog number	53486

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-4431 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-4431 from the ground?

Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, STARLINK-4431 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. 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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