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STARLINK-4711
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STARLINK-4711

Starlinklaunched 2022low orbitNORAD 53701 · 2022-107B

Height
463.8 km
From center
6,837.2 km
Sunlight
Sunlit
Speed
7.639 km/s
Ground speed
6.848 km/s
Over
28.232° N, 158.643° E

Passes

Technical details

Mean elements

Elements are 1.0 days old, from CelesTrak GP data (groups: active), fetched 3 h ago.How accurate is this?

Perigee
462 km
Apogee
464 km
Period
93.85 min
Inclination
53.16°
Eccentricity
0.0001248
Semi-major axis
6,841.1 km
Epoch
2026-11-14T22:14:52Z

Orbit check

The live speed and distance fit this orbit to within 0.028%.

Vis-viva: v²r/GM = 1.0008 and 2 − r/a = 1.0006

Raw elements

2LE

1 53701U 22107B   26318.92699286  .00000521  00000+0  26546-4 0  9993
2 53701  53.1588 186.2696 0001248 102.7478 257.3664 15.34393498232829

3LE

STARLINK-4711
1 53701U 22107B   26318.92699286  .00000521  00000+0  26546-4 0  9993
2 53701  53.1588 186.2696 0001248 102.7478 257.3664 15.34393498232829

OMM

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-4711",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2022-107B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-14T22:14:52.183104",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.34393498,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0001248,
  "INCLINATION": 53.1588,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 186.2696,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 102.7478,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 257.3664,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 53701,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 23282,
  "BSTAR": 0.000026546,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000521,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}

How we compute these

Altitude
Height above the WGS84 ellipsoid, the standard model of Earth's shape, straight below the satellite.
Speed
The length of SGP4's velocity vector in the TEME frame: the inertial speed. It is not the speed over the ground.
Ground speed
How fast the point below the satellite moves across Earth's surface, with Earth's rotation taken out.
From Earth's center
Distance from Earth's center, from SGP4's position.
Latitude and longitude
The point on the WGS84 ellipsoid straight below the satellite, from SGP4's position turned into Earth-fixed coordinates.
Sunlight
How much sunlight reaches the satellite past Earth and its atmosphere. Light grazing Earth is dimmed by air and ozone, bent into the shadow by refraction, and blocked below 10 km (clouds and haze); the Sun's disc is darker at its edge. So the satellite fades over a few seconds in low orbit and a couple of minutes in geostationary orbit, reddening as it goes, rather than switching off. The atmosphere is a clear standard one: haze from a large volcanic eruption can make the real fade come a few seconds early.
Orbit check (vis-viva)
v²r/GM uses the live speed and distance above, with GM = 398,600.4418 km³/s². Vis-viva says it equals 2 − r/a, where a is the mean semi-major axis. They agree as closely as SGP4's mean elements allow, usually within 1%.
Mean elements
Perigee, apogee, period, eccentricity, inclination and semi-major axis are mean elements from the published set, not instantaneous values. Perigee and apogee heights are above Earth's equatorial radius (6,378 km).
Epoch
The epoch is the moment the element set describes. Positions get less accurate the further you are from it.
How accurate is this?
Positions are predictions from the published elements, not live tracking. Through SGP4 they are usually within a kilometre or two near the epoch and drift by a few km a day after it, more for low or manoeuvring satellites. The map shows ground positions, the point straight below the satellite, so dots that look close can be thousands of km apart in height. Good for passes and tracks; not for judging close approaches between objects.
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