Wow, I can’t believe the world has launched more objects than the US…
How many of these are SmallSats and CubeSats?
There are high schools and colleges lobbing these into space.
Hahaha, space is screwed.
Elon
Bezos is trying to catch up
Sounds like we’re going to have two and China is going to have two:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_internet_constellation
Operational
Megaconstellations
- Amazon Leo — Amazon’s constellation will consist of 3,236 satellites operating in three orbital shells. Service began in 2025.
- Guowang/SatNet — a Chinese megaconstellation project created by SatNet, a firm backed by the CAST.[43] it plans to be constituted of over 13,000 satellites by the project’s end.[44]
- G60/Qianfan — a Chinese megaconstellation project developed by Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST) to deploy 14,000 satellites by 2030. The first stage consists of 1,296 satellites to provide global coverage; 648 of these are to be launched by the end of 2025 to provide regional network coverage. The first launch was on August 6, 2024.,[45] second batch of satellites were launched on 15 October 2024.
- Starlink — a subsidiary of SpaceX, its satellite constellation provides high-speed Internet and some phone services. Regular service began in 2021.[46]
I’m less caught up on the planned non-US ones, but the Blue Origin one, which is also Bezos, will be real if he wants it to be.
TeraWave — a Blue Origin project with 5280 satellites in LEO and 128 satellites in MEO with the first deployments planned for 2027.
Project West Ford seems to be missing from this plot. There ought to be a spike in 1963, representing 400 million tiny copper needles :)
