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
- COSMOS 2436 (723)
- GPS BIIRM-2 (PRN 31)
- APSTAR-6E SPS
- UNKNOWN
- COSMOS 2596 (708K)
- FENGYUN 1C DEB
- UNKNOWN
- COSMOS 2569 (703K)
- GSAT0217 (GALILEO 21)
- COSMOS 2476 (744)
- LCS 1
- COSMOS 2557 (706K)
- GSAT0224 (GALILEO 28)
- GSAT0209 (GALILEO 12)
- GPS BIIRM-6 (PRN 07)
- O3B MPOWER F10
- O3B FM9
- GSAT0219 (GALILEO 23)
- GPS BIII-8 (PRN 21)
- GPS BIIF-3 (PRN 24)
- O3B MPOWER F3
- O3B FM18
- BEIDOU-2 M4 (C12)
- GSAT0211 (GALILEO 14)