Space Exploration & Satellites on Our World in Data

[EdMathieu]

Link post

We just launched a new collection of charts on Space Exploration and Satellites on Our World in Data.

We plan to expand this in the future – with more data, and more text to present it – but in the meantime, you can explore the following charts:

• Annual budget of NASA

• Annual number of human visits to space

• Cumulative number of human visits to space

• Annual number of objects launched into outer space

• Cumulative number of objects launched into outer space

• Cost of space launches to low Earth orbit

• Cumulative number of exoplanets discovered, by method

• 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 objects in low Earth orbit, by type

• Number of objects in space, by orbit

[Holly Morgan]

Interactive graph previews when you hover over each link! 😍

[JasperGo]

Very cool to see! I’d also be interested in the number of belligerent acts in space (deployed military satellites with offensive capabilities, anti-satellite weapon tests etc.), if such numbers aren’t too small or too hard to come by.