Military satellites over Palestine
On 21 October 2026, working military satellites of 8 countries were predicted to pass over the places in Palestine where UCDP recorded fighting this year: 116 passes by 110 satellites. China's made the most: 63 passes by 58 satellites. A country's satellites over itself are not counted.
UCDP recorded 1,037 deaths (best estimate) in 545 events of state-based armed conflict in Palestine between 1 January 2026 and 1 September 2026.
Passes by country, 21 October 2026
predictedHow often each country's working military satellites pass over the fighting in Palestine 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 58 satellites
- 2025-180D
- GAOFEN 9 02
- GAOFEN DUOMO (GFDM)
- SHIJIAN 6 01A (SJ-6 01A)
- SHIJIAN 6 01B (SJ-6 01B)
- SHIYAN 20C (SY-20C)
- SHIYAN 27B
- SHIYAN 27C
- SJ-26
- WEINA 1A
- WEINA 2
- YAOGAN 27
- YAOGAN 28
- YAOGAN-30 A
- YAOGAN-30 AA
- YAOGAN-30 AB
- YAOGAN-30 AD
- YAOGAN-30 B
- YAOGAN-30 C
- YAOGAN-30 P
- YAOGAN-30 R
- YAOGAN-30 S
- YAOGAN-30 V
- YAOGAN-30 Y
- YAOGAN-30 Z
- YAOGAN-31 G
- YAOGAN-31 H
- YAOGAN-31 M
- YAOGAN-33
- YAOGAN-33 03
- YAOGAN-33 04
- YAOGAN-34 02
- YAOGAN-34 03
- YAOGAN-35 03B
- YAOGAN-35 03C
- YAOGAN-35 04A
- YAOGAN-35 05A
- YAOGAN-35 05C
- YAOGAN-35 C
- YAOGAN-36 01C
- YAOGAN-36 02B
- YAOGAN-36 02C
- YAOGAN-36 03C
- YAOGAN-36 04A
- YAOGAN-36 04C
- YAOGAN-36 05A
- YAOGAN-39 01B
- YAOGAN-39 01C
- YAOGAN-39 02B
- YAOGAN-39 04B
- YAOGAN-39 05A
- YAOGAN-43 O1J
- YAOGAN-47
- YAOGAN-50
- YAOGAN-50 02
- YUNHAI 2-1A
- YUNHAI 2-1C
- YUNHAI 2-1F
The 32 satellites
- AEROCUBE 6A
- AEROCUBE 8C
- ALICE
- CELTEE 1
- CHECKMATE 5
- CHECKMATE 7
- DISKSAT C
- EPIC ATHENA
- FASTSAT-HSV01 (USA 220)
- LCS 1
- MANDRAKE 2 ABLE
- MANDRAKE 2 BAKER
- NAVSTAR 55 (USA 178)
- NAVSTAR 56 (USA 180)
- NAVSTAR 80 (USA 309)
- OTTER
- PRAETORIAN SDA_606
- PRAETORIAN SDA_608
- PRAETORIAN SDA_611
- PRAETORIAN SDA_615
- RAWHIDE-1
- SBSS (USA 216)
- SDA_1668
- SDA_1675
- SDA_1681
- SDA_1682
- SDA_1683
- SPAWAR-CAL-O
- STPSAT-7
- WILDFIRE 4
- WILDFIRE 9
- WSF-M
The 2 satellites
Peru1passesThe satellite
The satellite
USSR1passesThe satellite
The fighting, from UCDP
1 January 2026 to 10 September 2026The state-based armed conflicts UCDP recorded deaths in Palestine 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: Palestine Internal | 1,033 | 15 May 1948 this round since 10 May 2021 |
| Iran - Israel Interstate | 4 | 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
- Chad
- 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.