Military satellites over Lebanon
On 21 October 2026, working military satellites of 6 countries were predicted to pass over the places in Lebanon where UCDP recorded fighting this year: 67 passes by 62 satellites. China's made the most: 49 passes by 44 satellites. In the last 7 days there were 15% more passes than in the 7 before (537 against 468). A country's satellites over itself are not counted.
UCDP recorded 4,367 deaths (best estimate) in 511 events of state-based armed conflict in Lebanon between 4 January 2026 and 27 August 2026.
Passes by country, 21 October 2026
predictedHow often each country's working military satellites pass over the fighting in Lebanon 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 44 satellites
- GAOFEN 9 02
- GAOFEN 12-05
- SHIYAN 27C
- SJ-11-08
- WEINA 1A
- WEINA 1B
- YAOGAN 9C
- YAOGAN 25C
- YAOGAN 27
- YAOGAN 29
- YAOGAN-30 A
- YAOGAN-30 AA
- YAOGAN-30 AE
- YAOGAN-30 AF
- YAOGAN-30 C
- YAOGAN-30 E
- YAOGAN-30 K
- YAOGAN-30 L
- YAOGAN-30 M
- YAOGAN-30 N
- YAOGAN-30 R
- YAOGAN-30 W
- YAOGAN-35 04C
- YAOGAN-35 05A
- YAOGAN-35 05B
- YAOGAN-35 A
- YAOGAN-36 01A
- YAOGAN-36 04A
- YAOGAN-36 04C
- YAOGAN-36 05B
- YAOGAN-36 05C
- YAOGAN-39 01B
- YAOGAN-39 02B
- YAOGAN-39 03A
- YAOGAN-39 03B
- YAOGAN-39 03C
- YAOGAN-39 05B
- YAOGAN-42 02
- YAOGAN-43 02A
- YAOGAN-43 02E
- YAOGAN-43 02F
- YAOGAN-43 03C
- YAOGAN-43 O1D
- YAOGAN-43 O1H
The 5 satellites
The 2 satellites
USSR1passesThe satellite
Peru1passesThe satellite
The fighting, from UCDP
1 January 2026 to 10 September 2026The state-based armed conflicts UCDP recorded deaths in Lebanon 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Israel: Southern Lebanon Internal | 4,331 | 30 September 1986 this round since 18 October 2023 |
| Israel: Palestine Internal | 18 | 15 May 1948 this round since 10 May 2021 |
| Iran - Israel, United States of America | 15 | Not in the conflict list yet |
| Iran - Israel Interstate | 3 | 19 March 2017 this round since 29 April 2018 |
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
- Benin
- Haiti
- 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.