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STARLINK-4473 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 53660)

Track STARLINK-4473 (NORAD catalog number 53660) 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 N of 2022's 105th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2022-105N). It went up together with 35 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog.

Moving at about 7.62 km/s, STARLINK-4473 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 496 × 499 km, completing one revolution every 94.4 minutes — about 15.3 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0002). 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 166.7°. Earth's equatorial bulge precesses that plane eastward about 0.97° 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	~496 km × 499 km
Inclination	97.28°
Orbital period	94.4 min (15.25 rev/day)
Eccentricity	0.00016
Element set epoch	2026-10-21
COSPAR designation	2022-105N
NORAD catalog number	53660

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-4473 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-4473 from the ground?

Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, STARLINK-4473 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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