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Satellite · NORAD 46168 · COSPAR 2020-057BD

STARLINK-1627

DecayedPayloadLEOCommunications derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

53.01°

Period

87.4 min

87.4 min

Perigee

143km

Apogee

151km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 24 May 2026.· Metadata updated 9 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 24 May 2026 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Communications
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
—
Constellation membership derived
Starlink via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • STARLINK-1627Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
SpaceX
SATCAT owner code
US · United States
Country
United States US

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
18 Aug 2020
COSPAR launch id
2020-057
Launch site
Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center (Eastern Range), Florida

Objects from the same launch · 40+

All objects from launch 2020-057 →

Change log

History

No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.

Regulatory

UN registration

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources →

No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.

Field provenance

No field-level provenance recorded.

Timeline

Events

All events →

No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.

Reference

Identifiers

NORAD catalogue number
46168
COSPAR / international designator
2020-057BD
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JVD6TX1GEKGMP3H66KY
Canonical slug
starlink-1627-46168

Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Communications) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.