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STARLINK-5142 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 53984)

Track STARLINK-5142 (NORAD catalog number 53984) 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 W of 2022's 125th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2022-125W). It went up together with 41 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog.

Moving at about 7.63 km/s, STARLINK-5142 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 477 × 479 km, completing one revolution every 94.0 minutes — about 15.3 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0002). Inclined 53.2° to the equator, it overflies every latitude up to about 53° north and south. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 279.4°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane westward about 4.66° per day.

Orbital elements

Orbit regimelow Earth orbit (LEO)
Perigee × apogee altitude~477 km × 479 km
Inclination53.16°
Orbital period94.0 min (15.32 rev/day)
Eccentricity0.00015
Element set epoch2026-10-21
COSPAR designation2022-125W
NORAD catalog number53984

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-5142 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-5142 from the ground?

Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, STARLINK-5142 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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