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The commercial constellations guide

This table presnts the status of the major commercial constellations. Public systems for navigation (GPS, Galileo…) or EO are not presented here.

Project (Company)LiveHype indexSatellites in operations/PlannedCountryPurpose
Starlink (SpaceX)YES*****6000+/12000 to 42000USABroadband
Kuiper (Amazon)NO (2025)
**0/3256USABroadband
Lightspeed (Telesat)NO**2/1600CanadaBroadband
Swarm TechnologiesYES (discontinued)***120/150USAIoT
OneWEBYES****
650
UKBroadband
KeplerPARTIAL**15/140CanadaBroadband
IridiumYES***66/66USAVoice, M2M, Broadband, AIS, ADS-B
OrbcommYES***36/36USAM2M, AIS
SpireYES****150/?USAAIS, ADS-B
PlanetYES****475/?USAEO
HeadYES**5/48ChinaEO, IoT
FleetPARTIAL**5/100AustraliaIoT
KineisYES**0/25FranceIoT
AstrocastPARTIAL***4/100SwitzezrlandIoT
LacunaPARTIAL**5/240NetherlandsIoT
LynkPARTIAL**0/10USA5G
SateliotPARTIAL**0/100Spain5G
Spacemobile (AST Science)PARTIAL***1/243USA5G
GlobalstarYES***48/48USAVoice, M2M
HiberDiscontinued
**4/48NetherlandsIoT
OQ TechnologyPARTIAL**1/60Luxemburg5G
O3B (SES)YES**20/20LuxemburgBroadband
XonaNO**0/300USAGNSS
ConstellRNO**0/30GermanyThermal IR
RivadaNO**0/250GermanyBroadband
EarthDailyAnalyticsNO**0/20USAEO