Satellite Emoji

Travel

A silver-colored orbital satellite with large, flat solar panels extending from its central body. The design reflects a typical communications or research satellite floating in the vacuum of space.

Usage Context

Used to discuss space travel, high-speed internet connectivity, GPS navigation, or global telecommunications. People often use it when posting about weather tracking or deep-space discovery, frequently paired with the 🚀 or 🌍 emojis.

History

Added in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, the satellite emoji reflects the rapid expansion of private space industry and the growing public reliance on satellite-based technologies like satellite radio and global positioning systems.

Details

Glyph

🛰

Unicode

U+1F6F0

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f6f0:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDEF0;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Travel

Subcategory transport-air

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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