Approximately 500 operational satellites are in low-Earth orbit, 50 are in medium-Earth orbit (at 20,000 km), the rest are in geostationary orbit (at 36,000 km).
So pa izstrelili satelite tudi v orbito drugih nebesnih teles, kot so Luna, Merkur, Venera, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, 4 Vesta, 433 Eros in izven Osončja (Voyager).