Low Earth orbit
The Starlink mesh
Thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit, knitting the planet into a single network. It is also the revenue engine underneath the IPO story.
9M+
subscribers
~550 km
orbital altitude
53°
primary inclination
Live
from CelesTrak data
What you're seeing
The globe on the home page isn't decorative. Each point is a real Starlink satellite, placed from public two-line element (TLE) orbital data published by CelesTrak and propagated in your browser with an SGP4 model, the same math used to track objects in orbit.
Positions update continuously as the satellites move at roughly 7.5 km/s, completing an orbit about every 95 minutes. The constellation's tilted shells, most prominently around 53° of inclination, are why coverage concentrates between the mid-latitudes.
Why it matters for the IPO
Starlink turned a hardware company into a recurring-revenue one. With more than nine million subscribers and an expanding direct-to-cell effort, it is the part of the business investors can model, and a large part of why demand for the listing ran multiples past the raise.
Satellite positions are illustrative of the live constellation, derived from public CelesTrak TLE data; they are not a navigation-grade feed. ipo2mars is unofficial and not affiliated with SpaceX or Starlink.