This table presnts the status of the major commercial constellations. Public systems for navigation (GPS, Galileo…) or EO are not presented here.
Project (Company) | Live | Hype index | Satellites in operations/Planned | Country | Purpose | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Starlink (SpaceX) | YES (beta) | ***** | 1700+/12000 to 42000 | USA | Broadband | |
Kuiper (Amazon) | NO | ** | 0/3256 | USA | Broadband | |
Lightspeed (Telesat) | NO | ** | 2/1600 | Canada | Broadband | |
Swarm Technologies | YES | *** | 120/150 | USA | IoT | |
OneWEB | NO | **** | 290/650 to 2000 | UK | Broadband | |
Kepler | PARTIAL | ** | 15/140 | Canada | Broadband | |
Iridium | YES | *** | 66/66 | USA | Voice, M2M, Broadband, AIS, ADS-B | |
Orbcomm | YES | *** | 36/36 | USA | M2M, AIS | |
Spire | YES | **** | 150/? | USA | AIS, ADS-B | |
Planet | YES | **** | 475/? | USA | EO | |
Head | YES | ** | 5/48 | China | EO, IoT | |
Fleet | PARTIAL | ** | 5/100 | Australia | IoT | |
Kineis | PARTIAL | ** | 0/25 | France | IoT | |
Astrocast | PARTIAL | *** | 4/100 | Switzezrland | IoT | |
Lacuna | PARTIAL | ** | 5/240 | Netherlands | IoT | |
Lynk | NO | ** | 0/10 | USA | 5G | |
Sateliot | NO | ** | 0/100 | Spain | 5G | |
Spacemobile (AST Science) | NO | *** | 1/243 | USA | 5G | |
Globalstar | YES | *** | 48/48 | USA | Voice, M2M | |
Hiber | PARTIAL | ** | 4/48 | Netherlands | IoT | |
OQ Technology | NO | ** | 1/60 | Luxemburg | 5G | |
O3B (SES) | YES | ** | 20/20 | Luxemburg | Broadband | |
Xona | NO | ** | 0/300 | USA | GNSS | |
ConstellR | NO | ** | 0/30 | Germany | Thermal IR | |
EarthDailyAnalytics | NO | ** | 0/20 | USA | EO |