Orbit class
Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)
Roughly 2,000–30,000 km. Where global navigation satellites live (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou).
207 cataloged objects in this orbit class.
Medium Earth Orbit covers altitudes between 2,000 km and the geosynchronous belt at ~35,786 km. Navigation constellations dominate here: GPS at ~20,200 km, GLONASS at ~19,100 km, Galileo at ~23,222 km, and the BeiDou MEO segment at ~21,500 km. Orbital periods run 11–14 hours.
Examples
- GSAT0221 (GALILEO 25)
- O3B FM2
- GSAT0205 (GALILEO 9)
- FENGYUN 1C DEB
- O3B FM4
- COSMOS 2457 (733)
- O3B FM10
- COSMOS 2529 (757)
- GPS BIIF-11 (PRN 10)
- COSMOS 2557 (706K)
- BEIDOU-3 M10 (C30)
- BEIDOU-3 M26 (C48)
- GREENCUBE (IO-117)
- BEIDOU-3 M24 (C46)
- COSMOS 2460 (732)
- BEIDOU-3 M28 (C50)
- GPS BIII-7 (PRN 01)
- BEIDOU-3 M19 (C41)
- BEIDOU-3 M5 (C23)
- GPS BIII-1 (PRN 04)
- O3B FM12
- EXPRESS-MD2
- GSAT0227 (GALILEO 30)
- BEIDOU-3S M1S (C57)