Satellite navigation

Quality:

Global navigation satellite system - system of satellites that provide autonomous geo-spatial positioning with global coverage. Article “Satellite navigation” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Satellite navigation”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1948 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 17 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7586 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4517 in November 2015
• Global: #3531 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6468 in August 2018
• Global: #19914 in April 2015

There are 41 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	English (en) Satellite navigation		80.4115
2	Catalan (ca) Sistema de navegació per satèl·lit		59.0476
3	Korean (ko) 범지구 위성 항법 시스템		57.3243
4	Polish (pl) Nawigacja satelitarna		56.8615
5	French (fr) Système de positionnement par satellites		56.7442
6	Japanese (ja) 衛星測位システム		56.0948
7	Indonesian (id) Sistem navigasi satelit		50.6031
8	Croatian (hr) Globalni navigacijski satelitski sustavi		47.4748
9	Persian (fa) ناوبری ماهواره‌ای		44.9637
10	Finnish (fi) Satelliittipaikannus		44.9126

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Satellite navigation		5 323 265
2	Russian (ru) Спутниковая система навигации		1 155 097
3	Spanish (es) Sistema global de navegación por satélite		1 142 987
4	German (de) Globales Navigationssatellitensystem		913 632
5	French (fr) Système de positionnement par satellites		798 815
6	Japanese (ja) 衛星測位システム		705 929
7	Chinese (zh) 卫星导航系统		371 877
8	Polish (pl) Nawigacja satelitarna		335 364
9	Italian (it) Sistema satellitare globale di navigazione		293 625
10	Portuguese (pt) Sistema de navegação por satélite		284 230

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) Satellite navigation		17 162
2	German (de) Globales Navigationssatellitensystem		3 028
3	Japanese (ja) 衛星測位システム		2 119
4	French (fr) Système de positionnement par satellites		2 049
5	Russian (ru) Спутниковая система навигации		2 011
6	Chinese (zh) 卫星导航系统		1 474
7	Spanish (es) Sistema global de navegación por satélite		909
8	Polish (pl) Nawigacja satelitarna		701
9	Italian (it) Sistema satellitare globale di navigazione		586
10	Persian (fa) ناوبری ماهواره‌ای		299

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Satellite navigation		521
2	French (fr) Système de positionnement par satellites		191
3	German (de) Globales Navigationssatellitensystem		161
4	Russian (ru) Спутниковая система навигации		140
5	Japanese (ja) 衛星測位システム		93
6	Dutch (nl) Satellietnavigatie		79
7	Spanish (es) Sistema global de navegación por satélite		71
8	Italian (it) Sistema satellitare globale di navigazione		68
9	Polish (pl) Nawigacja satelitarna		58
10	Hebrew (he) מערכת ניווט לוויינית		55

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) ملاحة بالأقمار الاصطناعية		1
2	Catalan (ca) Sistema de navegació per satèl·lit		1
3	English (en) Satellite navigation		1
4	Basque (eu) Satelite bidezko nabigazio sistema		1
5	Korean (ko) 범지구 위성 항법 시스템		1
6	Chinese (zh) 卫星导航系统		1
7	Belarusian (be) Спадарожнікавая сістэма навігацыі		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Спътникова навигация		0
9	Czech (cs) Satelitní navigace		0
10	Danish (da) Global Navigation Satellite System		0

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

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