Band 6+: The visuals give information about tl1e number of spacecran launched by various national governments between 1957 and 2007 and the purpose of each mission. Write a report for a university lecturer summarising the most important information in the visuals.

The pie chart illustrates the amount of spacecraft deployed by several nations in the span of 50 years since 1957 and the bar chart shows the reasons. Overall, most spacecraft missions were launched by the russian for communication purposes.

As observed, Russia/Soviet Union holds the largest number of 3484 spacecrafts launched into space. While USA is in the second position deploying approximately half the spacecrafts the Russian did. Commercial spacecraft is in the third position with 539 spacecraft, followed with the European Union, combined other countries, Japan, China, India, and the least is Canada with only 28 spacecrafts.

In the next chart we can tell that around 27% of the spacecrafts deployed during those 50 years was mostly used for communications purposes, 18% was used for surveillance satellites, and 11% for researches. Apparently, the percentage of spacecraft used for manned space programs, weather observation and planetary exploration are below 8% each.