Orbit class
Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)
Roughly 2,000–30,000 km. Where global navigation satellites live (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou).
189 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
- COSMOS 2514 (751)
- GSAT0201 (GALILEO 5)
- BEIDOU-3 M19 (C41)
- COSMOS 2534 (758)
- ISIS 1
- O3B MPOWER F2
- BEIDOU-3 M18 (C37)
- BEIDOU-3S M1S (C57)
- GPS BIIF-12 (PRN 32)
- GPS BIIF-9 (PRN 26)
- GSAT0101 (GALILEO-PFM)
- COSMOS 2024 (ETALON 2)
- GPS BIII-9 (PRN 20)
- GSAT0219 (GALILEO 23)
- BEIDOU-3 M2 (C20)
- BEIDOU-3 M9 (C29)
- O3B FM2
- GSAT0103 (GALILEO-FM3)
- COSMOS 2485 (747)
- GSAT0205 (GALILEO 9)
- GPS BIIF-11 (PRN 10)
- BEIDOU-3 M28 (C50)
- BEIDOU-3 M12 (C26)
- COSMOS 2527 (756)