Military satellites over Chad
On 21 October 2026, working military satellites of 9 countries were predicted to pass over the places in Chad where UCDP recorded fighting this year: 92 passes by 89 satellites. China's made the most: 43 passes by 42 satellites. A country's satellites over itself are not counted.
UCDP recorded 71 deaths (best estimate) in 6 events of state-based armed conflict in Chad between 13 January 2026 and 9 May 2026.
Passes by country, 21 October 2026
predictedHow often each country's working military satellites pass over the fighting in Chad 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 42 satellites
- GAOFEN 12 (02)
- SHIJIAN 6 02B (SJ-6 02B)
- SHIYAN 20A (SY-20A)
- SHIYAN 20C (SY-20C)
- SJ-11-03
- TIANPING 2A
- YAOGAN 3
- YAOGAN 20B
- YAOGAN 20C
- YAOGAN 22
- YAOGAN-30 AB
- YAOGAN-30 B
- YAOGAN-30 G
- YAOGAN-30 J
- YAOGAN-30 M
- YAOGAN-30 Q
- YAOGAN-30 X
- YAOGAN-30 Z
- YAOGAN-31 G
- YAOGAN-31 H
- YAOGAN-31 J
- YAOGAN-31 L
- YAOGAN-31 M
- YAOGAN-33 03
- YAOGAN-36 02A
- YAOGAN-36 02C
- YAOGAN-36 03A
- YAOGAN-36 04A
- YAOGAN-36 05A
- YAOGAN-36 05B
- YAOGAN-39 01C
- YAOGAN-39 04B
- YAOGAN-39 05B
- YAOGAN-39 05C
- YAOGAN-43 02A
- YAOGAN-43 02D
- YAOGAN-43 02E
- YAOGAN-43 03C
- YAOGAN-43 O1D
- YUNHAI 2-2B
- YUNHAI 2-2D
- YUNHAI 2-2E
The 26 satellites
- AEROCUBE 16A
- CHECKMATE 4
- DISKSAT C
- DMSP 5D-3 F17 (USA 191)
- EXCITE
- MISR-C-1
- NAVSTAR 63 (USA 203)
- NAVSTAR 78 (USA 293)
- NPSAT1
- OPS 5712 (P/L 160)
- PODSAT
- PRAETORIAN SDA_605
- PRAETORIAN SDA_614
- PRAETORIAN SDA_618
- PRAETORIAN SDA_619
- RAPTOR2
- RAPTOR4
- SBSS (USA 216)
- SDA_1668
- SDA_1669
- SDA_1671
- SDA_1675
- SDA_1676
- TEMPSAT 1
- USA 485
- WILDFIRE 10
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The fighting, from UCDP
1 January 2026 to 10 September 2026The state-based armed conflicts UCDP recorded deaths in Chad 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nigeria: Government Internationalised internal | 59 | 15 January 1966 this round since 1 March 2011 |
| Chad: Islamic State Internal | 6 | 27 May 2015 |
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
- Benin
- 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.