Low Earth orbit

Quality:

Low Earth orbit - orbit around Earth with an altitude between 160 kilometers and 2,000 kilometers. Article “Low Earth orbit” in English Wikipedia has 40.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 25 references and 9 sections.

This article has the best quality in Turkish Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Low Earth orbit” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Low Earth orbit”, its content was written by 311 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 938 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3570 times in English Wikipedia (8249^th place) and cited 16108 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #703 in April 2002
• Global: #988 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4739 in April 2026
• Global: #5897 in April 2026

There are 45 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Turkish (tr) Alçak Dünya yörüngesi		42.5237
2	Finnish (fi) Matala Maan kiertorata		42.4377
3	English (en) Low Earth orbit		40.8475
4	Catalan (ca) Òrbita terrestre baixa		31.1881
5	Croatian (hr) Niska orbita oko Zemlje		30.6417
6	Hebrew (he) מסלול לווייני נמוך		30.3742
7	Thai (th) วงโคจรต่ำของโลก		30.3034
8	Serbian (sr) Ниска Земљина орбита		28.0604
9	Basque (eu) Lurraren orbita baxu		27.6024
10	Indonesian (id) Orbit rendah Bumi		27.4494

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Low Earth orbit		6 456 808
2	Spanish (es) Órbita terrestre baja		490 049
3	French (fr) Orbite terrestre basse		399 605
4	Russian (ru) Низкая околоземная орбита		372 773
5	Polish (pl) Niska orbita okołoziemska		350 913
6	Chinese (zh) 近地轨道		346 818
7	Japanese (ja) 低軌道		310 510
8	Italian (it) Orbita terrestre bassa		269 989
9	Portuguese (pt) Órbita terrestre baixa		135 637
10	Arabic (ar) مدار أرضي منخفض		83 438

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Low Earth orbit		17 104
2	Russian (ru) Низкая околоземная орбита		1 382
3	French (fr) Orbite terrestre basse		1 346
4	Chinese (zh) 近地轨道		1 293
5	Japanese (ja) 低軌道		1 202
6	Italian (it) Orbita terrestre bassa		1 200
7	Spanish (es) Órbita terrestre baja		776
8	Polish (pl) Niska orbita okołoziemska		535
9	Persian (fa) مدار پایینی زمین		358
10	Portuguese (pt) Órbita terrestre baixa		186

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Low Earth orbit		311
2	French (fr) Orbite terrestre basse		78
3	Spanish (es) Órbita terrestre baja		55
4	Italian (it) Orbita terrestre bassa		51
5	Chinese (zh) 近地轨道		38
6	Polish (pl) Niska orbita okołoziemska		32
7	Hungarian (hu) Alacsony Föld körüli pálya		29
8	Japanese (ja) 低軌道		27
9	Arabic (ar) مدار أرضي منخفض		20
10	Russian (ru) Низкая околоземная орбита		19

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) مدار أرضي منخفض		1
2	English (en) Low Earth orbit		1
3	Basque (eu) Lurraren orbita baxu		1
4	Finnish (fi) Matala Maan kiertorata		1
5	French (fr) Orbite terrestre basse		1
6	Hungarian (hu) Alacsony Föld körüli pálya		1
7	Japanese (ja) 低軌道		1
8	Chinese (zh) 近地轨道		1
9	Belarusian (be) Нізкая калязямная арбіта		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Ниска околоземна орбита		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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