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STARLINK-38070 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 69990)
Track STARLINK-38070 (NORAD catalog number 69990) 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 R of 2026's 159th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2026-159R). It went up together with 23 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 595 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.66 km/s, STARLINK-38070 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 425 × 428 km, completing one revolution every 93.0 minutes — about 15.5 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 101.7°. Earth's equatorial bulge precesses that plane eastward about 1.01° 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 | ~425 km × 428 km |
| Inclination | 97.28° |
| Orbital period | 93.0 min (15.49 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00019 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-16 |
| COSPAR designation | 2026-159R |
| NORAD catalog number | 69990 |
This page's orbital elements come from the CelesTrak catalog of 2026-09-17. 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-38070 is one of 10,703 SpaceX Starlink broadband satellites in the current WatchSat catalog — the largest satellite constellation ever flown. Starlink operates in low-Earth-orbit shells around 540–570 km. See the whole Starlink constellation move live in 3D.
Can you see STARLINK-38070 from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, STARLINK-38070 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 pass predictions for your location are available on this page once you select the satellite and share your position for when it is above your horizon and sunlit.
Related satellites
Nearest catalog neighbors of STARLINK-38070 in the Starlink group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- STARLINK-38080 (NORAD 69989)
- STARLINK-38042 (NORAD 69991)
- STARLINK-38064 (NORAD 69988)
- STARLINK-38071 (NORAD 69992)
- STARLINK-38099 (NORAD 69987)
- STARLINK-38082 (NORAD 69993)
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