Every organization with a known payload in orbit, ranked by active satellite count. Each operator has a detail page listing its objects and provenance.
214 operators · payloads only (excludes debris and rocket bodies)
| # | Operator | Active |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SpaceX | 10,755 |
| 2 | Kuiper Systems LLC | 391 |
| 3 |
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| 121 |
| 4 | Iridium Satellite LLC | 80 |
| 5 | Space Development Agency | 69 |
| 6 | US Air Force Space and Missile Center | 58 |
| 7 | Spire | 40 |
| 8 | HawkEye 360 Inc. | 40 |
| 9 | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 32 |
| 10 | Globalstar Inc. | 28 |
| 11 | Intelsat S.A., US headquarters | 21 |
| 12 | BlackSky Global | 16 |
| 13 | Orbcomm Inc. | 15 |
| 14 | Intelsat Ltd, US headquarters | 12 |
| 15 | Tomorrow.io (The Tomorrow Companies Inc.) | 11 |
| 16 | Aerospace Corp. | 10 |
| 17 | Avellan Space Technology and Science | 10 |
| 18 | SpaceQuest | 10 |
| 19 | Capella Space Corp. | 9 |
| 20 | Loft Orbital / EarthDaily Analytics | 9 |
| 21 | US Space Force Space Systems Command | 9 |
| 22 | USAF SMC/DoD Space Test Program | 9 |
| 23 | ICEYE US | 8 |
| 24 | US Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) | 8 |
| 25 | Sirius XM Radio Inc | 8 |
| 26 | US Air Force Research Laboratories/RV (Space Vehicles Directorate) | 8 |
| 27 | Terra Bella (Planet) | 7 |
| 28 | NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field | 7 |
| 29 | NASA Langley Research Center / SouthWest Research Institute (Boulder) | 7 |
| 30 | Naval Research Lab | 7 |
| 31 | DirecTV | 6 |
| 32 | Lynk Global, Inc | 6 |
| 33 | Maxar Intelligence | 6 |
| 34 | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | 6 |
| 35 | NearSpaceLaunch | 6 |
| 36 | Spire / Lacuna Space | 6 |
| 37 | US Air Force Military Satellite Communications Wing, AFSMC, LAAFB | 6 |
| 38 | US Air Force Space Command | 6 |
| 39 | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | 5 |
| 40 | Google Terra Bella | 5 |
| 41 | Jet Propulsion Lab | 5 |
| 42 | NASA Johnson Space Flight Center | 5 |
| 43 | Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego | 5 |
| 44 | Umbra Labs | 5 |
| 45 | US Naval Postgraduate School | 5 |
| 46 | ViaSat Inc. | 5 |
| 47 | Astro Digital | 4 |
| 48 | Dish Network Corp. | 4 |
| 49 | Loft Orbital | 4 |
| 50 | Momentus Space | 4 |
| 51 | PlanetiQ | 4 |
| 52 | SES Americom | 4 |
| 53 | SouthWest Research Institute / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 4 |
| 54 | Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Space Field Activity | 4 |
| 55 | True Anomaly Inc. | 4 |
| 56 | United States Space Force | 4 |
| 57 | US Air Force Space and Missile Center / Defense Information Systems Agency | 4 |
| 58 | US Space Force Space and Missile Center | 4 |
| 59 | Spire / NorthStar Earth and Space | 3 |
| 60 | University of Colorado, Boulder | 3 |
| 61 | AMSAT North America (Radio Amateur Satellite Corp) | 3 |
| 62 | Apex Space | 3 |
| 63 | Deloitte Space, El Segundo / Spire | 3 |
| 64 | DigitalGlobe | 3 |
| 65 | Earth Fire Alliance | 3 |
| 66 | Echostar Corp | 3 |
| 67 | JHU-Applied Physics Lab / Jet Propulsion Lab | 3 |
| 68 | Muon Space | 3 |
| 69 | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | 3 |
| 70 | NASA Marshall Space Flight Center | 3 |
| 71 | Orbital Sidekick | 3 |
| 72 | Panamsat Corp | 3 |
| 73 | Sidus Space Inc. | 3 |
| 74 | Sierra Nevada Corp. | 3 |
| 75 | Spaceflight Industries Inc. | 3 |
| 76 | Spire/Glasgow / GHGSat Inc. | 3 |
| 77 | Tyvak Nanosatellite Systems LLC | 3 |
| 78 | Aprize Satellite Inc. | 2 |
| 79 | Arizona State University | 2 |
| 80 | Array Labs | 2 |
| 81 | AT&T/DirecTV | 2 |
| 82 | Boston University | 2 |
| 83 | Canopus Systems US LLC | 2 |
| 84 | Cesium Astro, Inc. | 2 |
| 85 | Echostar/Hughes Satellite Systems Corp | 2 |
| 86 | GE Americom | 2 |
| 87 | General Atomics Electromagnetic System Group/Englewood | 2 |
| 88 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 2 |
| 89 | Horizons Satellite LLC (Intelsat/JSAT) | 2 |
| 90 | Hubble Network Inc. / EnduroSat Trading EOOD | 2 |
| 91 | Hubble Network Inc. / Spire/Glasgow | 2 |
| 92 | Hughes Communications Inc. | 2 |
| 93 | Impulse Space Propulsion | 2 |
| 94 | Jet Propulsion Lab / Geoforschungszentrum Potzdam | 2 |
| 95 | Lockheed Martin Space Systems (Denver), Astronautics Operations | 2 |
| 96 | Missile Defense Agency | 2 |
| 97 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration / University of Iowa (=SUI) | 2 |
| 98 | National Reconnaissance Office | 2 |
| 99 | National Reconnaissance Office / Naval Research Lab | 2 |
| 100 | NOVI LLC | 2 |
| 101 | OmniSpace LLC | 2 |
| 102 | Project POPACS (Gil Moore) | 2 |
| 103 | SES S.A. (Princeton) | 2 |
| 104 | Skybox Imaging | 2 |
| 105 | Space Development Agency / Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | 2 |
| 106 | Space Logistics LLC | 2 |
| 107 | SPAWAR PMW 146 Com Sat Program Office | 2 |
| 108 | Spire/Glasgow / Hubble Network Inc. | 2 |
| 109 | SRI International | 2 |
| 110 | University of North Dakota | 2 |
| 111 | US Special Operations Command | 2 |
| 112 | NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field / Terran Orbital | 1 |
| 113 | Outpost Technologies | 1 |
| 114 | US Coast Guard Research and Development Center / US Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate | 1 |
| 115 | Aethero Space | 1 |
| 116 | AMSAT North America (Radio Amateur Satellite Corp) / Vanderbilt University | 1 |
| 117 | Anduril Industries Inc | 1 |
| 118 | Astro Digital / Orbit Fab | 1 |
| 119 | Atomos Space | 1 |
| 120 | Auburn University | 1 |
| 121 | Aurora Insight Inc. / NanoAvionics | 1 |
| 122 | Aurora Insight Inc. / SpaceQuest | 1 |
| 123 | Boeing Space Systems (HB) / Spaceflight Industries Inc. | 1 |
| 124 | California Polytechnic State University | 1 |
| 125 | Care Weather Technologies | 1 |
| 126 | Champaign-Urbana Aerospace LLC | 1 |
| 127 | Columbia University | 1 |
| 128 | CrunchLabs | 1 |
| 129 | Dartmouth College | 1 |
| 130 | DirecTV Latin America / Intelsat S.A., US headquarters | 1 |
| 131 | Echostar Communications Corp | 1 |
| 132 | Echostar/Hughes Satellite Systems Corp / Echostar Corp | 1 |
| 133 | EOS Data Analytics | 1 |
| 134 | GE Americom / GE Capital Satellites (Gibraltar) Ltd. | 1 |
| 135 | GeoEye Inc. (on Orbital campus) | 1 |
| 136 | GITAI USA Inc. | 1 |
| 137 | Gravity Space | 1 |
| 138 | Harvard University | 1 |
| 139 | Hera Systems Inc. | 1 |
| 140 | Horizons Satellite LLC (Intelsat/JSAT) / Intelsat S.A., US headquarters | 1 |
| 141 | ICEYE US / ICEYE | 1 |
| 142 | ICO North America | 1 |
| 143 | Intelsat S.A., US headquarters / DirecTV | 1 |
| 144 | Intelsat S.A., US headquarters / DirecTV Latin America | 1 |
| 145 | Interferometrics Inc | 1 |
| 146 | Inversion Space Co. | 1 |
| 147 | JHU-Applied Physics Lab / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 1 |
| 148 | JHU-Applied Physics Lab / National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 1 |
| 149 | K2 Space | 1 |
| 150 | Katalyst Space | 1 |
| 151 | Launcher Inc. | 1 |
| 152 | Lockheed Martin Space Communications Ventures / Lockheed Martin Intersputnik | 1 |
| 153 | Loft Orbital / Hydrosat | 1 |
| 154 | Lunar Outpost | 1 |
| 155 | MITRE Corporation | 1 |
| 156 | NanoSatisfi | 1 |
| 157 | NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 1 |
| 158 | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Jet Propulsion Lab | 1 |
| 159 | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / University of Massachusetts Lowell | 1 |
| 160 | NASA Langley Research Center | 1 |
| 161 | NASA Langley Research Center / USAF SMC/DoD Space Test Program | 1 |
| 162 | Northeastern University | 1 |
| 163 | Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems | 1 |
| 164 | Northwest Nazarene University | 1 |
| 165 | Operationally Responsive Space Office, Dept. of Defense | 1 |
| 166 | Orbital Sciences Corp./Chandler | 1 |
| 167 | Penn State University | 1 |
| 168 | PointView Tech LLC | 1 |
| 169 | Portland State Aerospace Society, Portland State University | 1 |
| 170 | Proteus Space, Inc. | 1 |
| 171 | Quantum Generative Materials LLC | 1 |
| 172 | Rogue Space Systems Corp. | 1 |
| 173 | Salish Kootenai College | 1 |
| 174 | Satellife Inc | 1 |
| 175 | SkyTerra LP | 1 |
| 176 | Space Development Agency / York Space Systems | 1 |
| 177 | SpaceCoin/Space Telecommunications Inc. | 1 |
| 178 | Spire / Mission Control Space Services | 1 |
| 179 | Spire / Orora Technologies GmbH | 1 |
| 180 | Starcloud LLC | 1 |
| 181 | Starfish Space | 1 |
| 182 | Terrestar Corp. | 1 |
| 183 | Texas A&M University | 1 |
| 184 | TriSept Corporation | 1 |
| 185 | TrustPoint, Inc. | 1 |
| 186 | Turion Space | 1 |
| 187 | Tyvak Nanosatellite Systems LLC / Lawrence Livermore National Lab | 1 |
| 188 | United States Air Force Academy | 1 |
| 189 | United States Army / Lincoln Labs, Mass. Inst of Technology | 1 |
| 190 | University of Arizona-Tucson | 1 |
| 191 | University of California Berkeley | 1 |
| 192 | University of California Berkeley / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 1 |
| 193 | University of California Santa Cruz | 1 |
| 194 | University of Cincinatti | 1 |
| 195 | University of Colorado-Lab for Atmospheric and Space Physics | 1 |
| 196 | University of Maine | 1 |
| 197 | University of Michigan / Jet Propulsion Lab | 1 |
| 198 | University of North Carolina, Wilmington / Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | 1 |
| 199 | US Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB | 1 |
| 200 | US Air Force Research Laboratories/RV (Space Vehicles Directorate) / California Polytechnic State University | 1 |
| 201 | US Air Force Space Systems Division / Lincoln Labs, Mass. Inst of Technology | 1 |
| 202 | US Geological Survey EROS Data Center | 1 |
| 203 | US Geological Survey EROS Data Center / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 1 |
| 204 | US Naval Academy / US Air Force Space and Missile Center | 1 |
| 205 | US Space Force Space Systems Command / Orion Space Solutions | 1 |
| 206 | USAF Space and Missile Systems Organization | 1 |
| 207 | Vestigo Aerospace / Astro Digital | 1 |
| 208 | WeatherStream / Orbital Micro Systems | 1 |
| 209 | WildBlue Communications Inc. | 1 |
| 210 | Worldspace Inc. | 1 |
| 211 | Xona Space Systems | 1 |
| 212 | Albedo Space | 0 |
| 213 | Varda Space Industries | 0 |
| 214 | York Space Systems | 0 |