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OAR-0046177 ACTIVE PAYLOAD

STARLINK-1633

launched 2020-08-18 from AFETR · LEO regime · owner code US
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Identity
OAR Asset IDOAR-0046177
Object nameSTARLINK-1633
NORAD catalogue no.46171
COSPAR / Int'l designator2020-057BG
Object typePAYLOAD
Owner codeUS
StatusACTIVE
Disposal
Decay watch
Owner / launching orgUnited States (United States) nation
OrbitLEO · e=0.00064247
Apogee (alt)
157.3 km
Perigee (alt)
148.9 km
Period
87.55 min
Semi-major axis
6531.2 km
Inclination
53.0101°
Eccentricity
0.00064247
Mean motion
16.44797188 rev/day
Epoch
2026-07-27T14:18:26.993664
Source
GP
Launch
Launch date2020-08-18
Launch siteAFETR
Decay date
Operating company
Operator (resolved)Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX / Starlink) commercial
Country of incorporationUnited States
Corporate statusactive
Privately held (Space Exploration Technologies Corp.); active operations (Starlink)
Resolutionname_pattern · high confidence · sourced fact
Operator attribution (GCAT)
Operator (GCAT)SpaceX (Seattle) business
Seattle:Redmond, Washington (US)
Manufacturer (GCAT)SpaceX (Seattle) (US)
GCAT identifiersS46171 · 2020-057BG (P R)
Name in GCATStarlink 1633 (catalogue name differs)
Reconciliationmatched by satcat_number · confirmed
Attribution from GCAT (J. McDowell), ingested under CC-BY-4.0 and shown alongside — not in place of — the catalogue owner above. GCAT reflects one researcher's editorial synthesis of public sources; treat it as evidence of the operator, not as a determination. McDowell, J., General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (GCAT), planet4589.org/space/gcat, CC-BY-4.0
UN registration
UN registrationREGISTERED by US
Registration documentST/SG/SER.E/954
Registration metadata as reproduced in GCAT from the UN Register (ST/SG/SER.E and A/AC.105/INF series). Registration is a self-assertion by the state of registry; under Registration Convention Art. II a state of registry must be a launching state.
Launching State attributionJOINT & SEVERAL
A State qualifies if it launches, procures the launch, or the launch occurs from its territory or facility. Status is fixed at launch and does not transfer with the operator.
LimbStateTierBasis
State of registry US T1 OFFICIAL Registered with the UN by US in ST/SG/SER.E/954
Registration Convention Art. II — a State of registry must be a launching State
Launch agency US T3 DERIVED Launch conducted by SpaceX (US)
Outer Space Treaty Art. VII, Liability Convention Art. I(c) and Registration Convention Art. I(a) — State which launches a space object
Facility US T3 DERIVED Launched from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, a facility of US
Outer Space Treaty Art. VII, Liability Convention Art. I(c) and Registration Convention Art. I(a) — State from whose facility an object is launched
Territory US T3 DERIVED Launch site Air Force Eastern Test Range, Florida, USA is on the territory of US (operated by US) — OAR launch-site mapping (CelesTrak SATCAT site code)
Outer Space Treaty Art. VII, Liability Convention Art. I(c) and Registration Convention Art. I(a) — State from whose territory an object is launched
Procurement US T4 INFERRED Inferred from owner nationality: SpaceX (Seattle) (US)
Outer Space Treaty Art. VII, Liability Convention Art. I(c) and Registration Convention Art. I(a) — State which procures the launching (INFERRED, not established)
A State qualifies if it launches, procures the launching, or the launch is from its territory or facility — more than one State can qualify for one object, and launching States are jointly and severally liable (Liability Convention Art. V). Launching-State status is fixed at launch and does not transfer when operators change. Tier 4 claims are inferred from owner nationality and are the weakest: rideshare procurement through integrators is genuinely contestable.
Reported lifecycle & re-entry
EventDateReported byBasis
DEORBIT STARTED 2025-10-06 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (operator_reported) source SpaceX Gen1/Gen2 Semi-Annual Constellation Status Report, filed 2025-12-31, period 2025-06-01 to 2025-11-30, FCC docket 18-313 (sha256 ad16fc5870e3)
Removed from operation for disposal (SpaceX semi-annual report)
Operator/regulator-reported end-of-life events, reconciled to this object and cross-checked against the catalogue decay date where available. Not a re-entry prediction.
Aliases
Every identifier that resolves to this OAR ID.
COSPAR2020-057BG
NAMESTARLINK-1633
NORAD46171
Record history
Logged events for this record — from the ingest log and reported lifecycle events, not a reconstruction.
2026-07-27T14:18:26.993664
Element set refreshed from CelesTrak GP
2025-10-06
Deorbit started reported by Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
2026-07-28T08:36:12.751Z
Record last updated by ingest
2026-07-02T14:45:55.347Z
Object catalogued · OAR ID issued