Every active satellite in geostationary orbit, by the state that registers it, including the EU-27. Updated each week from the public space-object catalogue, with what has arrived, retired and moved since the last update.
As of 12 November 2026, 600 active satellites sit in the geostationary belt. The United States is the registering state for 34.3% of them, China for 17.0% and the EU-27 member states together for 12.0%.
| Registering state | Satellites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 206 | 34.3% |
| China | 102 | 17.0% |
| Russia | 31 | 5.2% |
| India | 28 | 4.7% |
| France | 27 | 4.5% |
| Japan | 24 | 4.0% |
| United Kingdom | 23 | 3.8% |
| Luxembourg | 22 | 3.7% |
| Canada | 12 | 2.0% |
| Spain | 10 | 1.7% |
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Top 15 registrants. Select a bar to highlight that state across the page.
Satellites by launch year. Brighter bars are past a 15-year design life: the replacement pipeline.
Arrivals, retirements and relocations between weekly snapshots.
Every satellite in the count. Search any field, sort by any column, or select a row for details.
Source. CelesTrak’s satellite catalogue (SATCAT), which mirrors the US Space Force public catalogue, together with CelesTrak’s current orbital element sets for slot longitudes. The UN Register of Space Objects is the formal record of registration, but entries trail launches by months to years, so this tracker uses the catalogue and attributes each satellite from it.
What counts as active GEO. Payloads in orbit and flagged operational, partially operational, backup, spare or extended mission; orbital period 1,420 to 1,460 minutes; apogee and perigee within 1,500 km of each other; inclination 15° or less, all taken from the current orbital elements (the catalogue’s own orbit columns are used only for the few classified satellites without public elements). Inclined geosynchronous navigation satellites are excluded because they are not in the belt.
Registering state. Where the catalogue gives a country, that country is used. Where it gives an operator, the satellite is attributed to the state that licenses that fleet: SES to Luxembourg, except its US-market fleet (United States) and the former New Skies satellites (the Netherlands); Intelsat to the United States; Eutelsat to France, except the former Satmex satellites (Mexico) and 65 West A (Brazil); Inmarsat to the United Kingdom; AsiaSat to China for Hong Kong. ABS, which is based in Bermuda and files through several administrations, is attributed satellite by satellite from Jonathan McDowell’s GCAT catalogue: ABS-2 and ABS-2A to China for Hong Kong, ABS-3A to Papua New Guinea, ABS-4 to Japan and ABS-6 to the United States. ESA, EUMETSAT and RASCOM register in their own right.
EU-27. The sum of satellites registered by the 27 EU member states. ESA and EUMETSAT are European but not EU bodies, so they are counted separately; the United Kingdom and Norway are outside the EU.
Changes. Each weekly snapshot is compared with the one before. An arrival is a satellite newly in the belt or back on the active list; a departure has been marked non-operational, decayed or raised out of the belt; a relocation is a slot move of 1.5° or more. A satellite moving faster than 0.5° a day is shown as drifting rather than relocated, since it is not being held in a slot. Tracking restarted on 12 November 2026, when the orbit test moved to the orbital elements; the first two weekly snapshots undercounted by about ten satellites because of blank fields in the catalogue.
Data use. © Caelum Space Leasing Ltd. All rights reserved in this compilation and its attributions. You may quote figures with credit to “Caelum Space Leasing GEO tracker” and a link to this page, but may not copy, scrape or redistribute it without our written permission. Underlying catalogue and orbital data courtesy of CelesTrak, used under its terms.
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