How many satellites are there in Space?

There are nearly 6,542 satellites orbiting the Earth as of January 1, 2021. Out of which 3,372 satellites are active, and 3,170 satellites are inactive. As reported in the Index of Objects Launched into Outer Space, issued by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), there were 7,389 individual satellites in Space at the end of April 2021.

[markpayne]

Is there any footage of actual satellites in space? Just only ever seen CGI.

[thebittenmac]

That's why aliens stopped visiting Earth 😀

[fratercontenduntocculta]

Crazy we have a ring around our planet made entirely by satellites. My Uncle used to work at NORAD and was in charge of tracking all of the space junk, and told me that the junk is way more dangerous than the satellites for space missions as a lot of that said junk is about the size of a fist and is moving way to fast to intercept or clean up.

[gsxroyce]

This comment section is really alarming at how so many people don’t understand basic 5th grade physics/space distances/ sizes. Yes this is cgi, to give you an understanding / visual idea of how many are out there would look like of you could see them. You can’t see cars on the ground from 30k feet. And people expect to see car / bus size satellites from hundreds / thousands of miles away.

[eugemorin]

We don’t have enough of ruining our lands we have to do the same in space ! Wow the human is so advanced and brilliant!

[thefishfin-atic]

seems to me like if there are only 10 "other purpose" satellites, you could list their purposes off one by one, I'd be really interested in that.

[zazaboi]

Wonder what those last 10 unknown satellites are being used for 🤔

[brendareece]

Who ever is placing these objects in space, they need to clean up their mess if the satellites are no longer operating. Litterbugs!

[murrayrystead]

Actual footage would be nice. Why don't we have any?

[debrahm]

It makes the Universe look untidy tho😁

[bradsillasen]

Wow, only 150 "navigating and positioning" satellites?

[jasonhepler]

How don’t they hit each other and in this video you see a satellite going by and nothing in the background, shouldn’t you see all the other ones too? Please explain

[MrKjt]

Nearly 7000 satellites and youve never once seen one cross in front of the moon with the naked eye or a telescope. Interesting

[BLX]

Earth doesn’t look very inviting with all those satellites

[universityofknowledge]

What if every satellite was connected to the cloud

[FOX_GADGETS]

You say that there are thousands of satellites orbiting the Earth, but I searched for videos of those satellites and did not find any video of them orbiting the Earth, only articles and videos like these that we share.😂

[MannyMopar]

Soooo why cell phone towers and gps buildings and towers ??

[sandygiacobbe]

If their are this many satellites in space, why do we only see cartoons of Satellites ?

[jacksonfurlong]

Funny how we never see them in "photos" of Earth

[lintxxxxx]

I mean how hard would it be to turn a camera or telescope in space around and get REAL footage of satellites orbiting earth?

Can we please see anything real?