Is 8 degrees the angular size of the Earth from the moon? Aren't GPS satellites in relatively high orbit, so it could potentially be a larger patch of sky.
The satellites are 20 Mm high above the ground so their spread is 53 Mm, which is 4.4 times the diameter of the Earth (12 Mm). So yes, the angular size of the satellite cloud (7.896°) is quite a bit larger than the Earth (1.785°) from the moon PoV.
- Orbit height: 20,200 km
- Earths diameter: 12,760 km