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Space Exploration and Satellites

by Edouard Mathieu and Max Roser

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Annual budget of NASA
Annual number of human visits to space
Annual number of objects launched into space
Cost of space launches to low Earth orbit
Cumulative number of exoplanets discovered, by method
Cumulative number of human visits to space
Cumulative number of objects launched into space
Cumulative number of people who have been to space
Largest confirmed impact craters on Earth by diameter
Near-Earth asteroids discovered over time
Number of payloads and rocket bodies in space, by orbit
Number of tracked objects in low Earth orbit, by type

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@article{owidspaceexplorationsatellites,
    author = {Edouard Mathieu and Max Roser},
    title = {Space Exploration and Satellites},
    journal = {Our World in Data},
    year = {2022},
    note = {https://ourworldindata.org/space-exploration-satellites}
}

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