Every Satellite Orbiting Earth and Who Owns Them

EVERY SATELLITE ORBITING EARTH AND WHO OWNS THEM 139 Medium Earth orbit (MEO) Satellites in this orbit are used for navigation systems. Earth has 3,790 4,550 Low Earth orbit (LEO) Satellites here are used for communications satellites in orbit and remote sensing satellite systems. The International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope are also in this orbit. (as of 9/1/21) 565 Geosynchronous orbit (GSO) & geostationary orbit (GEO) 56 Satellites in this orbit are used for Highly elliptical orbit (HEO) telecommunications and Earth Observation Šatellites in this orbit are used for communications, satellite radio, remote sensing, and other applications. 50 OPERATOR/OWNERS THE of the Most Satellites Orbiting Earth USERS PURPOSE Commercial O Communications Earth Sciencce Technology Demonstration Military 9 Earth Observation E Space Science O Navigation/Global Positioning Government Space Observation Technology Development ? Unknown Civil Country of Operator/Owner Number of Satellites Operator/Owner They Own 1 SpaceX 1655 OneWeb Satellites 288 3 Planet Labs Inc. 188 4 Chinese Ministry of National Defense 129 Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation 125 Spire Global Inc. 121 7 Swarm Technologies 120 U.S. Air Force 87 9 Iridium Communications Inc. 75 10 National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) 63 11 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 60 12 SES S.A. 51 O MULTINATIONAL 12 European Space Agency (ESA) 51 E O O C MULTINATIONAL 14 Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) 47 15 Intelsat S.A. 46 16 U.S. Department of Defense 45 17 China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) 39 18 ORBCOMM Inc. 35 19 Globalstar 32 20 EUTELSAT S.A. 30 O MULTINATIONAL 21 Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd. 28 22 China Academy of Sciences (CAS) 25 23 U.S. Navy 24 24 National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 21 24 Satellogic S.A. 21 26 03b Networks Ltd. 20 26 China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC) 20 28 Aerospace Corporation 19 29 Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) 18 29 Gonets Satcom 18 31 Sky Perfect JSAT Corporation 17 32 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) 16 32 EUMETSAT (European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) 16 9 MULTINATIONAL 34 Kepler Communications 15 * 34 Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology 15 36 Guodian Gaoke 14 36 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) 14 38 Telesat Canada Ltd. (BCE Inc.) 13 38 Echostar Satellite Services LLC 13 38 China Satellite Communication Corp. (China Satcom) 13 41 Russian Satellite Communications Company 12 41 Los Alamos National Laboratory 12 41 INMARSAT Ltd. 12 41 Technical University Berlin 12 41 Tyvak Nanosatellite Systems Inc. 12 41 ICEYE Ltd. 12 47 PanAmSat (acquired by Intelsat S.A.) 11 47 DirecTV Inc. 11 47 Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center (CSIC) 11 *: 50 Ningxia Jingui Information Technology Co. Ltd. 10 50 China Meteorological Administration 10 THE COUNTRIES WITH THE MOST SATELLITES Total Number of Satellites 1 USA 2,804 16 Brazil 16 Countries With 5 Satellites: Algeria, Belgium, Greece, and 2 China 467 16 Netherlands 16 Sweden 3 United Kingdom 349 18 Finland 15 Countries With 4 Satellites: Denmark, Egypt, Malaysia, and 4 Russia 168 19 Australia 14 Vietnam 5 Japan 93 20 Saudi Arabia 13 6 India 61 20 Taiwan 13 Countries With 3 Satellites: Czechia, Morocco, Nigeria, 7 Canada 57 - 20 United Arab Emirates 13 Pakistan, and South Africa Germany Luxembourg 8 47 20 Switzerland 13 Countries With 2 Satellites: Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ethiopia, 9 40 - 24 Singapore 11 Lithuania, Slovenia, and Venezuela 10 Argentina. 34 25 Turkey 9 Countries With 1 Satellite: Austria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Estonia, Hungary, Iran, 11 France 31 26 Indonesia 8 26. Norway 12 Spain 13 ·Italy 24 . 8 21 26 Mexico 8 Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Laos, Mauritius, Monaco, Nepal, New 14 Israel -19 29 Thailand Zealand, Paraguay, Peru, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tunisia, 15 South Korea 18 30 Kazakhstan 6 Turkmenistan, and Ukraine SOURCES: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/satellite-database https://maps.esri.com/rc/sat2/index.html A DEWESoft https://www.spacefoundation.org/space_brief/types-of-orbits/ O © © C C