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STARLINK-4453 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 53497)

Track STARLINK-4453 (NORAD catalog number 53497) 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 AJ of 2022's 99th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2022-099AJ). It went up together with 36 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 22,322 revolutions of Earth.

Moving at about 7.59 km/s, STARLINK-4453 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 556 × 558 km, completing one revolution every 95.6 minutes — about 15.1 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0001). Its 97.3° 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 4.3°. Earth's equatorial bulge precesses that plane eastward about 0.95° per day, matching the Sun's apparent motion — which is what holds its lighting constant.

Orbital elements

Orbit regimelow Earth orbit (LEO)
Perigee × apogee altitude~556 km × 558 km
Inclination97.29°
Orbital period95.6 min (15.06 rev/day)
Eccentricity0.00014
Element set epoch2026-09-06
COSPAR designation2022-099AJ
NORAD catalog number53497

This page's orbital elements come from the CelesTrak catalog of 2026-09-08. 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-4453 is one of 10,717 SpaceX Starlink broadband satellites in the current WatchSat catalog — the largest satellite constellation ever flown. Starlink operates in low-Earth-orbit shells around 540–570 km. See the whole Starlink constellation move live in 3D.

Can you see STARLINK-4453 from the ground?

Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, STARLINK-4453 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 pass predictions for your location for when it is above your horizon and sunlit.

Related satellites

Nearest catalog neighbors of STARLINK-4453 in the Starlink group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:

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