NASA's Fleet of Active Satellites (July 2025)

  • Released Tuesday, July 22, 2025
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These visualizations show the orbits of NASA satellites considered operational as of July 2025. They include both NASA-managed missions and NASA-ESA joint missions. Scroll to the bottom of the page for a full list of satellites included in these visualizations.

This visualization is a tour of the Solar System, showing all of NASA’s active satellites as of July 2025. It begins near Earth, highlighting satellites in orbit around the planet. The camera then pulls back to reveal satellites at the Moon, L1, and L2. A thin yellow line indicates the direction of the Sun, showing the spatial relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Lagrange points. The view expands to show the inner Solar System, then zooms in on Mars to highlight its active satellites. From there, the camera moves out and in toward Jupiter to show Juno, the only active satellite currently orbiting the planet. The tour continues to the edge of the Solar System, revealing NASA’s most distant active spacecraft: Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and New Horizons. The video ends by returning to Earth. This video can be looped.

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This visualization is a tour of the Solar System, showing all of NASA’s active satellites as of July 2025. It begins near Earth, highlighting satellites in orbit around the planet. The camera then pulls back to reveal satellites at the Moon, L1, and L2. A thin yellow line indicates the direction of the Sun, showing the spatial relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Lagrange points. The camera then zooms back to Earth.

Still image – Close-up view of Earth, showing many active low Earth orbit satellites.

Still image – Close-up view of Earth, showing many active low Earth orbit satellites.

Still image – Medium-distance view of Earth, showing active satellites in various orbital paths.

Still image – Medium-distance view of Earth, showing active satellites in various orbital paths.

Still image – View of the Moon, with the LRO, Artemis P1/P2, and CAPSTONE satellites.

Still image – View of the Moon, with the LRO, Artemis P1/P2, and CAPSTONE satellites.

Still image – View of L1 and the satellites orbiting the Lagrange point. Earth, the Sun, and the Moon are also visible.

Still image – View of L1 and the satellites orbiting the Lagrange point. Earth, the Sun, and the Moon are also visible.

Still image – View of L2 and the satellites orbiting the Lagrange point. Earth, the Sun, and the Moon are also visible.

Still image – View of L2 and the satellites orbiting the Lagrange point. Earth, the Sun, and the Moon are also visible.

Still image – Top-down view of Earth, the Moon, L1, and L2. A thin yellow line indicates the direction of the Sun, highlighting the spatial relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Lagrange points.

Still image – Top-down view of Earth, the Moon, L1, and L2. A thin yellow line indicates the direction of the Sun, highlighting the spatial relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Lagrange points.

This visualization is a tour of the Solar System, showing all of NASA’s active satellites as of July 2025. It begins near Earth, highlighting satellites in orbit around the planet. The camera then pulls back to reveal satellites at the Moon, L1, and L2. A thin yellow line indicates the direction of the Sun, showing the spatial relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Lagrange points. The view expands to show the inner Solar System, then zooms in on Mars to highlight its active satellites. From there, the camera moves out and in toward Jupiter to show Juno, the only active satellite currently orbiting the planet. The tour continues to the edge of the Solar System, revealing NASA’s most distant active spacecraft: Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and New Horizons. The video ends by returning to Earth. This video can be looped.

Still image – View of the inner Solar System, showing several NASA satellites orbiting the Sun and traveling through the Solar System.

Still image – Close-up view of Mars, showing the MRO, MAVEN, and Mars Odyssey satellites.

Still image – Close-up view of Mars, showing the MRO, MAVEN, and Mars Odyssey satellites.

Still image – Medium-distance view of Jupiter and the orbit of the Juno satellite.

Still image – Medium-distance view of Jupiter and the orbit of the Juno satellite.

Still image – Distant view of the Solar System. The planets (and Pluto) are visible at the center. Spreading outward are NASA’s most distant spacecraft: Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and New Horizons.

Still image – Distant view of the Solar System. The planets (and Pluto) are visible at the center. Spreading outward are NASA’s most distant spacecraft: Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and New Horizons.

The following satellites are included in this visualization:

EarthSun
AquaLucy
AuraEuropa Clipper
CYGNSS-1,2,3,4,5,7,8: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite SystemOSIRIS-APEX
GPM: Global Precipitation MeasurementParker Solar Probe
GRACE-FO-1,2: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow OnJuice
ICESat-2Psyche
ISS: International Space StationSTEREO Ahead
Landsat 8Solar Orbiter
Landsat 9Voyager 1,2
OCO-2: Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2New Horizons
PACE: Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem
SMAP: Soil Moisture Passive ActiveMoon
Suomi NPP: Suomi National Polar-orbiting PartnershipLRO
Sentinel-6 Michael FreilichArtemis 1,2
SWOTCapstone
Terra
TROPICS 3,5,6,7L1
Hubble Space TelescopeDSCOVR
NuSTARWIND
IXPEACE
Prefire-1SOHO
Prefire-2
SPHERExL2
Jason 3JWST
NOAA-20, 21Euclid
EZIE A,B,C
Starling 1-4Mars
MCubed 2Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
ACS32001 Mars Odyssey
NuSTARMAVEN
PUNCH 1-4
TDRS 3,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13Jupiter
MMS 1-4Juno
TESS
Chandra Observatory
IBEX
CLUSTER II-FM7,8
Themis A,D,E
SDO

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16763847

This page was originally published on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, July 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM EDT.