389 Smallsats Launched Worldwide in 2019, Bryce Says
There were 389 small satellites launched last year, with nearly half of the 28 dedicated smallsat launches by China, Bryce Space and Technology said Tuesday. That's up from 328 launched in 2018, it said. It said communications was the biggest…
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application for smallsats launched last year, with SpaceX having almost half of the satcom smallsats launched. The space tech firm said of the 1,731 smallsats launched 2012-19, 52 percent are for commercial service. The U.S. had 60 percent of those.