Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)
1–10 of 118 posts
Re: Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)
#2Unfortunately, not relevant anymore. Some information is from before 2021 on this page.
Re: Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)
#3It's incredible how many satellites Space X have launched
It's also surprising from a layman's perspective the "freedom" to launch rockets into space without necessarily needing permission, the originating country of course needs to approve it but none else
Re: Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)
#4Dewesoft is only ranking the top 50 owners, so their stats may be wrong or misleading for the others.
Austria, for example, is listed as having only 1 satellite, but they have at least 4 according to the UCS Satellite Database.
Re: Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)
#5Here's a related long-form article with more recent figures (and narratives),
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/23/world/asia/st... ("This Was Supposed to Be the Year China Started Catching Up With SpaceX")
Re: Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)
#6The article may be from 2023, but the data is for 2021.
At the rate of Space X littering the sky with them, the 2021 statistics are somewhat irrelevant.
Re: Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)
#7So about 11000 units in the low orbit in 2025 and thats a mix of commercial and state satellites. I wonder how the traffic and distribution being governed
Re: Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)
#8Here's a related long-form article with more recent figures (and narratives), https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/23/world/asia/st... ( "This Was Supposed to Be the Year China Started Catching Up With SpaceX" )
If you want to avoid paywall - https://archive.ph/95S2U
Re: Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)
#9So about 11000 units in the low orbit in 2025 and thats a mix of commercial and state satellites. I wonder how the traffic and distribution being governed
LEO traffic is primarily coordinated through the ITU for frequency allocation and conjunction alerts from the US Space Force's 18th Space Defense Squadron, though there's no binding international framework for orbital slot management.
Re: Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)
#10It's incredible how many satellites Space X have launched It's also surprising from a layman's perspective the "freedom" to launch rockets into space without necessarily needing permission, the originating country of course needs to approve it but none else
[flagged]