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Global Orbital Space Launches: 2025 Year in Review

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• CLM-0195 In 2025 the whole world launched about 2,712 metric tons of satellites into orbit across 325 launches. A single 2010-era plan for solar power satellites assumed that, at its busiest point, over 160,000 metric tons a year and thousands of launches a year would be needed just for that one program. Real-world 2025 launch activity is far below that assumed scale.
• CLM-0236 In 2025, all the rockets launched by every country and company in the world together put about 2.7 million kilograms of satellites into orbit, and one company (SpaceX) launched most of them.
• CLM-0533 All the rockets in the world together put about 2.7 million kilograms into orbit in 2025, about a fourteenth of the mass of one solar power satellite design from 1978 (about a thirteenth for the main 1978 reference design).

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