Satellite · NORAD 56769 · COSPAR 2023-078C
STARLINK-5978
- Operator SpaceX
- Constellation Starlink
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
69.97°
Period
87.4 min
87.4 min
Perigee
137km
Apogee
153km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 08 Sept 2025.· Metadata updated 29 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 08 Sept 2025 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- SpaceX
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 31 May 2023
- COSPAR launch id
- 2023-078
Objects from the same launch · 40+
- FALCON 9 DEB56819DebrisDecayed
- FALCON 9 DEB56820DebrisDecayed
- FALCON 9 DEB56821DebrisDecayed
- FALCON 9 DEB56822DebrisDecayed
- STARLINK-619756767PayloadActive
- STARLINK-619856768PayloadActive
- STARLINK-634256770PayloadActive
- STARLINK-633956771PayloadDecayed
- STARLINK-627556772PayloadActive
- STARLINK-629656773PayloadActive
- STARLINK-619056774PayloadActive
- STARLINK-629256775PayloadActive
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
Transparency
Sources & provenance
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
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 56769
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2023-078C
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JWJ4V73ZBXBB7G65N1Y
- Canonical slug
- starlink-5978-56769
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.