Military satellites over Benin
On 21 October 2026, working military satellites of 11 countries were predicted to pass over the places in Benin where UCDP recorded fighting this year: 88 passes by 82 satellites. China's made the most: 43 passes by 41 satellites. A country's satellites over itself are not counted.
UCDP recorded 28 deaths (best estimate) in 7 events of state-based armed conflict in Benin between 9 January 2026 and 10 July 2026.
Passes by country, 21 October 2026
predictedHow often each country's working military satellites pass over the fighting in Benin in the UTC day, for how many minutes in all, and by how many satellites. Arrows: the last 7 days against the 7 before, shown from 10% when new, moved or stopped satellites are behind it, or from 35% otherwise.
The 41 satellites
- BD-18
- BEIDOU 3M11
- GAOFEN 9 04
- GAOFEN 11
- GAOFEN 11 04
- GAOFEN 12 (03)
- JB-3 C
- SHIJIAN 6 03A (SJ-6 03A)
- SHIYAN 28B-01(SY-28B 01)
- SHIYAN-28B 02
- SJ-30A
- SJ-30B
- SJ-30C
- TJS-13
- YAOGAN 2
- YAOGAN 9A
- YAOGAN 16A
- YAOGAN 21
- YAOGAN 25B
- YAOGAN 27
- YAOGAN-30 C
- YAOGAN-30 G
- YAOGAN-30 J
- YAOGAN-30 N
- YAOGAN-30 R
- YAOGAN-30 Y
- YAOGAN-31 A
- YAOGAN-31 B
- YAOGAN-35 02B
- YAOGAN-35 05B
- YAOGAN-36 01A
- YAOGAN-36 04B
- YAOGAN-36 04C
- YAOGAN-36 05B
- YAOGAN-36 05C
- YAOGAN-39 01B
- YAOGAN-39 02B
- YAOGAN-42 02
- YAOGAN-43 02C
- YAOGAN-43 O1C
- YAOGAN-43 O1F
Singapore2passesThe satellite
The 2 satellites
The satellite
The satellite
The satellite
North Korea1passesThe satellite
Canada1passesThe satellite
UAE1passesThe satellite
The fighting, from UCDP
1 January 2026 to 10 September 2026The state-based armed conflicts UCDP recorded deaths in Benin this year, with when each began from the UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset (to 2025). Conflicts that began later aren't in that list yet.
| Conflict | Deaths | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Benin: Government Internal | 28 | 9 February 2020 this round since 12 October 2022 |
Other conflict areas
by passes- All conflict areas
- Iran
- Pakistan
- Mali
- Sudan
- Colombia
- Ukraine
- Nigeria
- Myanmar
- Russian Federation
- India
- Afghanistan
- Mexico
- Somalia
- Iraq
- Ethiopia
- Niger
- Syria
- Central African Republic
- Philippines
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Burkina Faso
- Yemen
- Indonesia
- Kenya
- Cameroon
- Venezuela
- South Sudan
- Algeria
- Mozambique
- Thailand
- Palestine
- Chad
- Haiti
- Lebanon
- Ghana
Passes and clusters: predicted by overhead24 for each minute of the day from Space-Track.org orbital elements, counting a pass when the point beneath a satellite is in or next to a 0.5° cell where UCDP recorded a death this year. Military satellites and their countries: GCAT by Jonathan McDowell (CC BY 4.0). Fighting: the UCDP Candidate Events Dataset (CC BY 4.0). Hegre, Håvard, Mihai Croicu, Kristine Eck and Stina Högbladh (2020), "Introducing the UCDP Candidate Events Dataset", Research & Politics. UCDP is part of and funded by DEMSCORE, national research infrastructure grant 2021-00162 from the Swedish Research Council. Conflict start dates: UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset 26.1. Davies, Shawn, Therése Pettersson and Magnus Öberg (2026), "Organized violence 1989–2025, and violent political protests", Journal of Peace Research, doi:10.1093/jopres/xjag046; Gleditsch, Nils Petter, Peter Wallensteen, Mikael Eriksson, Margareta Sollenberg and Håvard Strand (2002), "Armed Conflict 1946–2001: A New Dataset", Journal of Peace Research 39(5). See military satellites by country and how overhead24 works.