{"id":236849,"date":"2026-05-09T22:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T03:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/how-many-satellites-are-there-in-space"},"modified":"2026-05-09T22:09:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T03:09:27","slug":"how-many-satellites-are-there-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/how-many-satellites-are-there-in-space","title":{"rendered":"How Many Satellites are There in Space?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-many-satellites-are-there-in-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A satellite is any object that orbits another body in space. Earth\u2019s only natural satellite is the Moon. Every other satellite around Earth, more than 14,000 of them as of early 2026, is artificial. The first one was launched in October 1957 by the Soviet Union; recent ones are reaching orbit at a rate of roughly 60 per week, almost all of them part of SpaceX\u2019s Starlink constellation. The orbital environment around Earth has changed more in the last six years than in the previous sixty, and the trajectory of that change is what makes the satellite question worth revisiting in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A satellite is any object that orbits another body in space. Earth\u2019s only natural satellite is the Moon. Every other satellite around Earth, more than 14,000 of them as of early 2026, is artificial. The first one was launched in October 1957 by the Soviet Union; recent ones are reaching orbit at a rate of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}