Number of payloads and rocket bodies in space, by orbit
Debris from launches or collisions is not counted. Objects are subtracted from the time series after they have reentered the Earth's atmosphere.
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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 gravitational wave observations
- 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 tracked objects in low Earth orbit, by type