The satellite emoji brings big space-nerd energy: a tiny orbiting spacecraft with solar panels soaking up sun and antennas beaming data back home. On Apple/iOS, it’s a sleek silver-gray body with crisp, blue grid-pattern solar panels stretched like wings, plus a small parabolic dish jutting out—rendered in a glossy, three-quarter angle that looks mid-orbit and very Mission Control chic. You can practically hear the beeps.
People drop this when talking space news, GPS, satellite internet, or any “beaming the signal” moment—think long-distance love, global launches, or pretending your text came from low Earth orbit. It’s also meme-ready for “my brain is in orbit,” ghosting jokes (“still circling your message”), and weak Wi‑Fi sarcasm (“need a satellite for this Zoom”). If you’re tweeting about Starlink swarms, weather maps, or tracking flights like a couch astronaut, this is your co-pilot.
Culturally, it nods to a whole lineage from Sputnik to modern mega-constellations and the GPS that saves you from wrong turns. Pro tip: this is the actual spacecraft emoji, not the rooftop dish (that’s the satellite antenna emoji 📡). Pair it with 🚀 for launch hype, 🌍 for global coverage, or ✨ when you’re feeling extra cosmic about your notifications.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1287 of 2393 |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :sat: |
| Keywords |
| Unicode Category | Transport and Map Symbols |
| Unicode Range | 1F680–1F6FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Cat Faces |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 Code |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🛰 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🛰 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🛰 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🛰 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f6f0 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F6F0 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128752 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9B 0xB0 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 9B B0 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 233 260 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDEF0 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddef0 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 57072 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F6F0 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F6F0 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128752 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F6F0" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x9b\xb0" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDEF0" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🛰️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🛰️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🛰 ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🛰 ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f6f0, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F6F0, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128752, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9B 0xB0, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 9B B0, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 233 260, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDEF0, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddef0, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 57072, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F6F0 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F6F0, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128752, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F6F0\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x9b\xb0\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDEF0\uFE0F" |
