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STARK — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 65299)
Track STARK (NORAD catalog number 65299) 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 C of 2025's 185th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2025-185C). It went up together with 4 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 5,600 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.56 km/s, STARK flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 618 × 636 km, completing one revolution every 97.1 minutes — about 14.8 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0013). Its 98.0° 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 333.4°. Earth's equatorial bulge precesses that plane eastward about 1.00° 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 | ~618 km × 636 km |
| Inclination | 97.96° |
| Orbital period | 97.1 min (14.83 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00130 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2025-185C |
| NORAD catalog number | 65299 |
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 Other Active Satellites group
STARK is one of 4,471 active satellites in WatchSat's general catalog — the broad population of Earth-observation, communications, science, amateur-radio and technology spacecraft outside the giant broadband constellations. Browse all other active satellites live in 3D.
Can you see STARK from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, STARK 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 STARK in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- FOURIER (NORAD 65298)
- DRESDEN (NORAD 65297)
- BASIL (NORAD 65301)
- DOJO (NORAD 65302)
- HULIANWANG DIGUI-73 (NORAD 65305)
- HULIANWANG DIGUI-74 (NORAD 65306)
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