BeiDou satellites
BeiDou is China's global navigation satellite system, combining medium-Earth-orbit satellites near 21,500 km with inclined-geosynchronous and geostationary units. It achieved global coverage in 2020.
56
Active satellites
CNSA
Operator
Navigation (GNSS)
Category
21,511–35,793 km
Altitude
0.5°–62.5°
Inclination
773–1436 min
Orbital period
2010
First launch
Orbit distribution
Satellites in this constellation
A sample of BeiDou's fleet — open any in the live map. Per-satellite detail pages are rolling out.
- BEIDOU-2 G1 #36287
- BEIDOU-2 G3 #36590
- BEIDOU-2 G4 #37210
- BEIDOU-2 G5 #38091
- BEIDOU-2 G6 #38953
- BEIDOU-2 G7 #41586
- BEIDOU-2 G8 #44231
- BEIDOU-2 IGSO-1 #36828
- BEIDOU-2 IGSO-2 #37256
- BEIDOU-2 IGSO-3 #37384
- BEIDOU-2 IGSO-4 #37763
- BEIDOU-2 IGSO-5 #37948
- BEIDOU-2 IGSO-6 #41434
- BEIDOU-2 IGSO-7 #43539
- BEIDOU-2 M3 #38250
Related
Starlink · OneWeb · Kuiper · Qianfan · GPS · Galileo · GLONASS · Iridium · Globalstar · Planet
Country: China