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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 (beta)*****1700+/12000 to 42000USABroadband
Kuiper (Amazon)NO**0/3256USABroadband
Lightspeed (Telesat)NO**2/1600CanadaBroadband
Swarm TechnologiesYES***120/150USAIoT
OneWEBNO****290/650 to 2000UKBroadband
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
KineisPARTIAL**0/25FranceIoT
AstrocastPARTIAL***4/100SwitzezrlandIoT
LacunaPARTIAL**5/240NetherlandsIoT
LynkNO**0/10USA5G
SateliotNO**0/100Spain5G
Spacemobile (AST Science)NO***1/243USA5G
GlobalstarYES***48/48USAVoice, M2M
HiberPARTIAL**4/48NetherlandsIoT
OQ TechnologyNO**1/60Luxemburg5G
O3B (SES)YES**20/20LuxemburgBroadband
XonaNO**0/300USAGNSS
ConstellRNO**0/30GermanyThermal IR
EarthDailyAnalyticsNO**0/20USAEO