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State of orbit · live catalog data, refreshed 2026-10-02 00:20 UTC

The numbers, every day

Recomputed every six hours from Jonathan McDowell's General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (GCAT, CC-BY-4.0), which mirrors the US Space Force public catalog, plus ESA's annual environment model. Everything below is also available as JSON.

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On orbit now is the tracked population; when it rises faster than reentries, orbit is getting more crowded. By altitude band shows where the risk concentrates: bands above ~700 km hold objects for centuries, so debris there never leaves on its own, while bands below 500 km self-clean within years. Falling now and recent reentries are the atmosphere doing the only clean-up that currently exists. Closest predicted approaches is a taste of what operators wake up to every day: each entry is a near miss that someone had to assess.

Some sections could not be refreshed today (conjunctions) and show the previous day's values.

Objects ever catalogued
70,231
37,380 have re-entered
On orbit now
33,694
-3 vs 2026-10-01
Payloads
19,606
16,412 active, 3,194 dead
Rocket bodies
2,113
spent upper stages
Debris fragments
11,975
catalogued pieces
Launched, last 30 days
255
new catalogued objects
Re-entered, last 30 days
73
49% of 60-day reentries were Starlink
Highest catalog number
100,882
five-digit numbers ran out 11 Jul 2026

Where the junk is

Catalogued objects by mean altitude, low Earth orbit only (apogee below 2,000 km).

Each ring is a 100 km band from 200 to 2,000 km. Dots scale with catalogued objects in that band; amber marks debris and rocket bodies, cyan marks payloads. Hover a ring.

By altitude band

Altitude bandAll objectsDebris + R/BPayloads
200-300 km62741586
300-400 km1,04354989
400-500 km10,23018410,046
500-600 km2,2804361,844
600-700 km2,0431,157886
700-800 km2,6522,245407
800-900 km2,7692,501268
900-1000 km1,8811,425456
1000-1100 km1,036720316
1100-1200 km1,031451580
1200-1300 km862516346
1300-1400 km29724948
1400-1500 km919359560
1500-1600 km43236567
1600-1700 km14512520
1700-1800 km19118
1800-1900 km835
1900-2000 km404

Constellations

ConstellationCataloguedMean alt (km)Mean incl (°)
Starlink (SpaceX)11,15645757.2
OneWeb (Eutelsat)6541,19687.9
Kuiper / Amazon Leo39262351.9
Qianfan / G60 (China)2561,02388.9
Guowang (China)2685157.7

Payloads matched by name in the GCAT catalog that are currently in orbit, including satellites still raising orbit or de-orbiting.

The three big debris clouds

EventFragments still trackedMean alt (km)
Fengyun-1C ASAT (2007)2,127832
Iridium 33 (2009 collision)129708
Cosmos 2251 (2009 collision)611742

Two events, a 2007 anti-satellite test and the 2009 Iridium–Cosmos collision, still account for thousands of tracked fragments nearly two decades later. Full events timeline.

Falling now

Catalogued objects in Earth orbit with perigee below 250 km, from GCAT element data.

ObjectNORADPerigee kmApogee km
Tianfu Dongpo 0153453131148
KZ-11 Y3 Stage 31007431331,823
EagleEye60508139157
Starlink 444653505140157
Starlink 106844772148155
iSat43879150162
Starlink 444253480150166
Duchifat-140021155172
Tacsat-639473157163
PACE-148909162172
SNAP-3 EDDIE40972164182
Starlink 145345670165177
deb Ariane V26239661691,459
SPARTAN48964169178
Electron 97 Stage 2100830171533

Recent reentries

ObjectOwnerLaunchedRe-entered
Starship FT-14US2026-09-282026-09-28
Electron 96 Stage 2NZ2026-09-192026-09-28
Soyuz-2-1b xx-xxx Blok-IRU2026-07-192026-09-27
CZ-3B Y116 Stage 3CN2026-06-162026-09-27
Starlink 4045US2022-07-172026-09-27
Starlink 1777US2020-11-252026-09-27
Electron 92 Stage 2NZ2026-08-062026-09-26
LINKUS2026-07-032026-09-25
Starlink 11694US2025-06-032026-09-25
Starlink 3069US2021-09-142026-09-25
Starlink 31079US2023-12-192026-09-23
Electron 95 Stage 2NZ2026-09-112026-09-22
Starlink 31027US2024-01-032026-09-22
Starlink 31530US2024-03-252026-09-21
Starlink 4451US2022-08-122026-09-21

Closest predicted approaches (7 days)

Public GP-based screening (CelesTrak SOCRATES). Illustrative only, far less accurate than operator conjunction data messages.

Object AObject BClosest approach (UTC)Range kmSpeed km/sMax prob
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Who owns what is up there

OwnerObjects on orbit
US18,446
CN5,761
RU3,339
SU2,790
UK793
F632
J312
IN194
CA103
D95

The population you cannot see

> 10 cm
68,450
ESA MASTER-8, Feb 2026
1–10 cm
~1,500,000
can destroy a satellite; mostly untracked
1 mm–1 cm
~230,000,000
pits optics, cuts wires

ESA also counts about 46,860 tracked objects across all networks, more than 660 fragmentation events since 1957, and over 17,000 tonnes of material in orbit (31 Jul 2026). ESA DISCOS.