Satellites by country

France has 647 objects in orbit

CelesTrak's satellite catalogue, read 5 November 2026, lists 647 objects in orbit owned by France: 78 working satellites, 52 that no longer work, 165 rocket bodies and 351 pieces of debris. 1 487 have been catalogued since its first launch.

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6 of its payloads in orbit have no public path: the catalogue lists them, but no element set is published for them, or they are beyond Earth orbit. The map lists them and says which.

Shared with another country, and not counted above: France and Germany (2 in orbit, on the map), France and Italy (2 in orbit, on the map).

Measured. The counts are the catalogue's: what radar can track, about 10 cm and up, on the day given. A satellite's place on the map is worked out from its published orbit.

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Source: CelesTrak's satellite catalogue (celestrak.org), read 5 November 2026. Flag: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.