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Snapshot (546)
Space Products and Services (461)
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- Featured Stories (26)
- Annual Overviews (18)
- Space Technology Hall of Fame and Space Certification (15)
- Interactions Between Space and Non-Space (13)
Infrastructure (600)
- Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Satellites (95)
  - US PNT Satellites (GPS) (16)
  - European PNT Satellites (Galileo) (16)
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    - Fixed Satellite Service Orbits (9)
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- Launch (237)
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    - Suborbital Payload Launch (22)
      - Sounding Rockets (8)
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    - Orbital Payload Launch (100)
      - Orbital Launch Reports and Forecasts (18)
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      - European Payload Launches (13)
      - Japanese Payload Launches (13)
      - Russian Payload Launches (12)
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      - Other Payload Launches (9)
  - Launch Support (58)
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    - Suborbital (22)
      - U.S. Human Suborbital Launch (10)
      - Human Suborbital Launches from Other Countries (3)
    - Orbital Human Space Launch (46)
      - U.S. Human Space Launch (16)
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      - Chinese Human Space Launch (11)
      - Annual Orbital Human Space Launch Overviews (6)
      - Human Space Launch From Other Countries (6)
  - Current Launch Activity Lists (11)
- Space Situational Awareness Satellites (42)
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- Planetary Science (25)
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- Human Activities in Space (51)
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    - China (13)
    - Space Station Deployments Log (3)
  - Human Settlements (5)
- Technology Development (20)
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    - Other types of tech development (7)
    - On-Orbit Servicing (4)
  - Orbits (2)
- Annual Infrastructure Overviews (10)
- Solar Science (12)
  - Orbital Systems (4)
  - Ground Facilities (3)
- Missile Detection Satellites (21)
  - U.S. Missile Detection and Defense (13)
  - Other Countries with Missile Detection and Defense (4)
- Astrophysics (5)
Economy (426)
- Commercial Infrastructure and Support Industries (100)
  - Satellite Manufacturing (21)
  - Annual Infrastructure and Industries Overviews (19)
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  - Launch Industry (18)
  - Commercial Human Spaceflight (17)
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- Annual Economy Overviews (19)
- Commercial Space Products and Services (89)
  - Earth Observation (20)
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  - Annual Products and Services Overviews (19)
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  - Broadcasting (31)
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- Government Space Budgets (244)
  - Annual Government Space Budgets Global Overview (21)
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  - Russian Government Space Budget (17)
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  - Additional Country Space Budgets (15)
  - United States Government Space Budget (52)
    - U.S. Civil Space Budgets (17)
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    - Annual U.S. Space Budget Overviews (16)
    - U.S. Research and Development Funding (6)
  - European Cooperative Organization and Government Space Budgets (92)
    - German Government Space Budget (18)
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    - Italian Government Space Budget (17)
    - United Kingdom Government Space Budget (17)
    - French Government Space Budget (16)
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    - Annual European Cooperative Organization and Government Space Budgets Overviews (10)
    - European Military Space Budgets (7)
- Venture Capital and Investment (3)
- New Nations (2)
Workforce (153)
- U.S. Space Workforce (99)
  - U.S. Space Industry Employment (39)
  - NASA Civil Servant Workforce (20)
    - NASA Demographics (9)
    - Geographical Distribution (8)
  - U.S. National Security Workforce (17)
    - U.S Army Space Workforce (8)
  - Official U.S. Workforce Statistics (17)
    - Space Salaries (9)
- Other Space Employment (20)
- European Space Workforce (27)
  - European Space Industry Employment (14)
  - European Space Agency Employment (10)
- Japanese Space Workforce (28)
  - Japanese Space Industry Employment (16)
  - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Employment (12)
Education (44)
- Top-level trends (8)
- Post-secondary STEM Education (17)
  - U.S. Trends (13)
    - U.S. Demographics (9)
- Primary and Secondary STEM Education (18)
  - Global Trends (9)
    - PISA (4)
    - TIMSS (3)
  - U.S. Trends (8)
    - NAEP (6)
Perspective (33)
- 2008 – Perspective (7)
- 2009 – Perspective (5)
- 2012 – Perspective (5)
- 2010 – Perspective (4)
- 2011 – Perspective (4)
- 2013 – Perspective (4)
- 2018 – Perspective (2)
- 2007 – Perspective (1)
Appendix (145)
- Charts and Graphs (134)
- Launch Log and Associated Payloads (18)
- Methodology (8)
- Download The Space Report (1)
Japanese Orbital Launch Service Providers (5)
- Orbital launch service provider: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) (2)
Insights (4)
Space Policy (3)
European Orbital Launch Service Providers (1)
- Orbital launch service provider: Arianespace (1)
Indian Orbital Launch Service Providers (1)
- Orbital launch service provider: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) (1)
2014 – Perspective (1)
Nation in Review (1)

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