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Interesting stuff, it appears to be their own data (I'm guessing aggregated from sources like the UN registry and observation). I was curious about the statisti
by pierrec 7y ago
Interesting stuff, it appears to be their own data (I'm guessing aggregated from sources like the UN registry and observation). I was curious about the statistics on satellite missions so I put it into a table:
Operational satellites by mission:
total 2154
Communications 740
Scientific 592
Navigation 135
Technology Development 109
Earth Observation 99
Surveillance 58
Engineering 20
Weather 13
Not Recorded 8
Early Warning 3
Search and Rescue 1
Space Station Flight 1
- molyss 7y agoA few interesting things : The sum of all mission-detailed satellites is lower than the total (even thought there’s a « no recorded » line There’s a grand total of 58 surveillance satellites around the earth today ? Yeah... I think there’s a few missing