Indicator · satellites-launched
New satellites owned
Payloads that reached orbit that year, counted for the country that owns them now.
- Unit
- satellites
- Places
- 110 countries in 2025
- Built from
- Satellite catalog
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World, 1957–2025
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Highest and lowest in 2025
| United States | 3,710 satellites |
|---|---|
| China | 371 satellites |
| Russia | 88 satellites |
| Japan | 35 satellites |
| Italy | 31 satellites |
| Zimbabwe | 0 satellites |
|---|---|
| Vietnam | 0 satellites |
| Venezuela | 0 satellites |
| Ukraine | 0 satellites |
| Uganda | 0 satellites |
57 countries share this value; five are shown, alphabetically.
How it is computed
GCAT satcat and ecat, payloads by current owner and launch year, from the Satellite catalog dataset on this site. visualizedata.org computes the indicator for every place and year; the full table, the map and each place's history are on its page there. The underlying data, with its source and license, is on the dataset page, with the API and downloads.