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Satellite · NORAD 48587 · COSPAR 2021-041AL

STARLINK-2242

DecayedPayloadLEOCommunications derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

53.03°

Period

88.5 min

88.5 min

Perigee

199km

Apogee

206km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 07 Jan 2025.· Metadata updated 10 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 07 Jan 2025 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-2242Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

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

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
15 May 2021
COSPAR launch id
2021-041
Launch site
Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center (Eastern Range), Florida

Objects from the same launch · 40+

All objects from launch 2021-041 →

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
48587
COSPAR / international designator
2021-041AL
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JVQW3VC459S54HC44XG
Canonical slug
starlink-2242-48587

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.