Medium Earth Orbit MEO
Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) spans from about 2,000 km up to geosynchronous altitude. It's the home of navigation systems like GPS, Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou, which trade coverage for orbital periods of several hours.
193
Satellites in MEO
1.2%
Share of global
~2,000–34,000 km
Altitude band
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Major constellations in MEO
GPS · Galileo · BeiDou · GLONASS
Sample satellites
- APSTAR-6E SPS #55447
- ASTROBIO CUBESAT #53107
- BEIDOU-2 M3 #38250
- BEIDOU-2 M4 #38251
- BEIDOU-2 M6 #38775
- BEIDOU-3 M1 #43001
- BEIDOU-3 M10 #43246
- BEIDOU-3 M11 #43603
- BEIDOU-3 M12 #43602
- BEIDOU-3 M13 #43622
- BEIDOU-3 M14 #43623
- BEIDOU-3 M15 #43648
- BEIDOU-3 M16 #43647
- BEIDOU-3 M17 #43706
- BEIDOU-3 M18 #43707