The pie and bar chart below gives information about the countries that launch spacecrafts and the purpose of launching the spacecraft between 1957 and 2007.
In the period of 50 years, thousands of spacecraft have been launched by various national government and also private organization. The Soviet Union (Russia) have lunch the most number of spacecraft, 3484 to be exact. After Russia, the United States is the country that has launch the most number of spacecraft. Interestingly, after these to nation, the highest number of spacecraft were not launch by any nation but by private organisation. 539 commercial spacecraft were launched. Other nation have also launch more than thousands of spacecraft in these period. The most notable countries are China, Europe Union, India, Japan & Canada.
The bar chart provide information about the purpose for launching this spacecraft. Most spacecrafts were launch communication purposes, which is little more than 25% of the all spacecraft launched. Moreover, around 18% where surveillance satellite. Many spacecrafts were launch to study and observe various things. More than 10% of the space crafts were launched for research.
To conclude, thousand of spacecraft have been launched between 1957 and 2007 By various nations, with Russia and USA commbinely sending more than 57% of the space crafts.