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Starlink: how many are up there today
SpaceX has launched 13,024 Starlink satellites since 2019. 11,192 are in orbit today, and 1,832 have come back down and burned up in the atmosphere. 81 went up in the last thirty days.
- 11,192In orbit today
- 13,024Launched in all
- 1,832Come back down
- Oct 31, 2026Latest launch
The whole network, right now
Every dot is one Starlink satellite, where it is this second. They are thickest a little short of 53° north and south, where most of their orbits turn back toward the equator. Drag the globe to turn it, pinch or use the buttons to come closer. Fast forward runs a minute of their flight every second.
Finding the Starlink satellites…
Where they fly
Of the 10,611 whose orbit we have today, 9,737 fly at these heights above the ground, to the nearest 10 km. 79 are below the lowest of them: newly launched ones still climbing, and old ones on their way down.
| Height | Satellites |
|---|---|
| 480 km | 3,412 |
| 470 km | 2,199 |
| 460 km | 3,407 |
| 360 km | 360 |
| 350 km | 359 |
Launched in the last thirty days
| Launched | Satellites | From | Tracked objects |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 2026 | STARLINK × 27 | Vandenberg, California, United States | 27 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | STARLINK × 27 | Vandenberg, California, United States | 27 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | STARLINK × 27 | Vandenberg, California, United States | 27 |
When you can see them
A Starlink satellite in its working orbit is faint, at the edge of what the naked eye can see. The time to look is the first days after a launch, when a whole batch is still low and close together and crosses the sky as a line of lights: a Starlink train. A few days later the satellites have spread out and climbed, and the train is gone.
With the app
Knowing where it is over the Earth is one thing. The app shows you where it is in your sky.
This page follows the satellite around the planet. The app works out when it passes over you, and leads you to it.
- Every pass over your exact location, for this satellite and 10,000+ more.
- An alert before it rises, so you are outside in time.
- An arrow in the camera view that leads you to the exact spot in the sky.
- Starlink trains, Tiangong, Hubble and the brightest satellites of tonight.
Other satellites
Space stations
The two crewed stations in orbit, and what is docked to them today.
154Brightest satellites
The satellites and spent rocket stages you can see without a telescope.
73Weather satellites
The satellites behind the forecast, in low orbit and over the equator.
546Geostationary satellites
The ring of satellites that hang over one spot, in order around the Earth.
95Amateur radio satellites
The satellites radio amateurs talk through.
80Iridium
The satellite phone network that once made the famous flares.
654OneWeb
The other internet constellation, in a much higher orbit.
206New in orbit
Everything launched in the last thirty days.
From CelesTrak’s orbit data and satellite catalogue, which lists launches up to November 11, 2026. Page updated November 14, 2026.