Solar panels extended, orbiting quietly in open space far above everything happening on the ground. It's used for space and tech content, GPS and signal jokes, and generally for anything transmitting or receiving from way up above everyone else, beaming information back down without anyone noticing.
What 🛰️ means
A rectangular capsule-like body with an antenna dish in front, a deep blue pair of panels on both sides of the body, and a circular and mostly flat end on the hind side of the body.
The 🛰️ Satellite emoji signifies communication, signal transmission, essentially, the television network we pretty much cannot live without. This emoji could also suggest outer space, space, and the earth's orbit.
How and when to use it
- If you're posting (lucky enough to do so) or reposting anything related to and by NASA, you can use 🛰️ in the caption; it can be a satellite image, the latest NASA news, or even a meme.
- 🛰️ can pretty much be used in any space and space-related context - a rocket that's about to launch into space, an image of a couple of astronauts, or specifically satellite news content, pictures, videos, etc.
- If you're sharing an aesthetic picture of yourself, someone/anything that you captured and you wish to have a caption/quote that aligns with 'outer space' you can use 🛰️ - "So much universe and such little time! 🛰️".
- A lot of wordplay if possible with 🛰️. For example, "Give me some space for heaven's sake! 🛰️" or "Nothing's better than some quiet space to yourself 🛰️".
Other Names
- 🛰️ Space Capsule
- 🛰️ Space Station
- 🛰️ Artificial Satellite
- 🛰️ NASA
- 🛰️ Communication Satellite
- 🛰️ Space
- 🛰️ Outer Space
- 🛰️ Space Satellite
- 🛰️ NASA
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › transport-air
- Codepoints
U+1F6F0 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:artificial_satellite:GitHub- Keywords
- satellite, space
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🛰️ Satellite or 🏂 Snowboarder?
Runs with a crowd
🛰️ keeps company in space emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.