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New satellites owned

satellites · GCAT (Jonathan McDowell) General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects, satellite catalog, GCAT satcat and ecat, payloads by current owner and launch year, via satellitedata.dev · payloads that reached orbit that year, counted for the country that owns them now

Countries with any figure
110
Years
1958–2025
Compare on
2025 110 countries
Newest year
2025 110 countries
Every year
1 countries
Stop before 2025
0 countries

Statistical offices report at different speeds, so the newest year usually has fewer countries than the years before it. A country's "latest" figure elsewhere on this site can therefore be from different years for different countries; rankings only compare countries with a figure for the same year.

Compare countries on this indicator

Countries with a figure for New satellites owned, each yearThe best-covered year has 110 countries. 2025 is the last year with at least 90% of that (110); 2025 has 110.
0255075100125196019701980199020002010202090% of 110
Indicator: Count of countries in the geo registry with a non-empty value; New satellites owned, satellites, yearly (payloads that reached orbit that year, counted for the country that owns them now); GCAT satcat and ecat, payloads by current owner and launch year via satellitedata.devSource: GCAT (Jonathan McDowell), General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects, satellite catalog (CC BY 4.0), via satellitedata.dev satellite-catalog, version 2026-10-27.fd1c7746f3
Show the numbers (68 rows)
YearCountries with a figure
2025110
2024106
2023103
2022101
202197
202092
201990
201885
201780
201670
201570
201467
201364
201257
201152
201052
200952
200851
200749
200648
200547
200446
200346
200245
200144
200043
199940
199837
199734
199634
199533
199431
199330
199228
199125
199025
198920
198820
198718
198617
198516
198414
198314
198214
198114
198013
197913
197813
197713
197613
197512
197411
19739
19729
19719
19709
19697
19686
19676
19665
19655
19644
19633
19623
19611
19601
19591
19581
Which countries have figures for New satellites owned, by year110 countries have at least one figure from 1958 to 2025; 1 has every year, 0 have gaps, and 0 stop before 2025.
19601965197019751980198519901995200020052010201520202025

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Indicator: New satellites owned, satellites, yearly (payloads that reached orbit that year, counted for the country that owns them now); GCAT satcat and ecat, payloads by current owner and launch year via satellitedata.devSource: GCAT (Jonathan McDowell), General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects, satellite catalog (CC BY 4.0), via satellitedata.dev satellite-catalog, version 2026-10-27.fd1c7746f3

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This page's numbers, as JSON:

curl https://visualizedata.org/data/indicators/satellites-launched.json

Every country from satellitedata.dev (live, no key; GCAT (Jonathan McDowell) data, this exact version):

curl "https://api.satellitedata.dev/v1/satellite-catalog@2026-10-27.fd1c7746f3/download/satellite-catalog.parquet"

Open the JSON

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