KUON GEO satellite catalogue
The positioning satellites circling Earth right now
The satellites that make positioning work, listed by system. Pick a name and you get that one satellite: where it is at this moment and the shape of its orbit. Positions are propagated with SGP4 from published orbital elements. Nothing to install, no account.
GPS 32
Operated by the United States, with the first satellite launched in 1978. It is the longest-serving system in use.
GLONASS 28
Operated by Russia. Its 64.8 degree inclination is the steepest of the global systems, which puts satellites high in the sky at high latitudes.
Galileo 32
Operated by the European Union. The satellites sit at about 23,222 km, one orbit taking roughly 14 hours, inclined 56 degrees.
BeiDou 53
Operated by China. It is the only global system that mixes GEO, IGSO and MEO satellites, and it is the largest by count.
QZSS (Michibiki) 6
Operated by Japan. Tilted orbits keep a satellite high over Japan for long stretches of the day, which helps where buildings or mountains cut off the low sky.
NavIC 7
Operated by India as a regional system covering India and its surroundings.
SBAS (augmentation) 13
These satellites carry corrections rather than providing positioning of their own. They broadcast values that cancel part of the error in GPS and other systems.
About the numbers on this page
- Identity and orbit shape are computed from the orbital elements (OMM) published by CelesTrak. They describe the orbit at the element set epoch; the real orbit drifts slowly away from it.
- A satellite launched recently is still moving toward its assigned slot, so its values change from day to day.
- The live position is an SGP4 prediction. Whether the satellite is actually broadcasting a usable signal cannot be told from this calculation.
- The orbit class is decided mechanically from period and inclination, so it may not match the operator's own wording.
CelesTrak GP (OMM) · 2026-08-20 · 171