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STARLINK-31859 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 59848)

Track STARLINK-31859 (NORAD catalog number 59848) 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 P of 2024's 97th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2024-097P). It went up together with 20 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog.

Moving at about 7.65 km/s, STARLINK-31859 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 455 × 470 km, completing one revolution every 93.7 minutes — about 15.4 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0010). Its 43.0° inclination keeps its ground track over the tropics and lower mid-latitudes. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 27.3°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane westward about 5.72° per day.

Orbital elements

Orbit regime	low Earth orbit (LEO)
Perigee × apogee altitude	~455 km × 470 km
Inclination	43.00°
Orbital period	93.7 min (15.37 rev/day)
Eccentricity	0.00104
Element set epoch	2026-10-28
COSPAR designation	2024-097P
NORAD catalog number	59848

This page's orbital elements come from the CelesTrak catalog of 2026-10-31. 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-31859 is one of 11,159 SpaceX Starlink broadband satellites in the current WatchSat catalog — the largest satellite constellation ever flown. Its satellites fly in low-Earth-orbit shells, at a median altitude of about 470 km in this catalog. See the whole Starlink constellation move live in 3D.

Can you see STARLINK-31859 from the ground?

Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, STARLINK-31859 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. See the “When can I see it?” panel in the live view for when it is above your horizon and sunlit.

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