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STARLINK-36895 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 68038)

Track STARLINK-36895 (NORAD catalog number 68038) 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 Z of 2026's 40th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2026-040Z). It went up together with 24 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog.

Moving at about 7.63 km/s, STARLINK-36895 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 472 × 474 km, completing one revolution every 93.9 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 241.2°. Earth's equatorial bulge precesses that plane eastward about 0.99° 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~472 km × 474 km
Inclination97.28°
Orbital period93.9 min (15.33 rev/day)
Eccentricity0.00015
Element set epoch2026-10-21
COSPAR designation2026-040Z
NORAD catalog number68038

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-36895 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-36895 from the ground?

Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, STARLINK-36895 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. Newly launched batches are the exception — right after launch they can form a naked-eye Starlink train. Check the launch schedule for what just went up. 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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