Tracked objects in low Earth orbit, by type
Objects are subtracted from the time series after they have reentered the Earth's atmosphere. Not all objects are tracked: in 2021, the European Space Agencyestimated there were more than 130 million space debris objects larger than 1 millimeter.
Related: Number of objects in space, by orbit
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- Annual budget of NASA
- Annual number of objects launched into space
- Chlorophyll-a deviation from the global average
- Cost of space launches to low Earth orbit
- Cumulative number of exoplanets discovered, by method
- Cumulative number of gravitational wave observations
- Cumulative number of human visits to space
- Cumulative number of objects launched into space
- Cumulative number of people who have been to space
- Human visits to space per year
- Near-Earth asteroids discovered over time
- Payloads and rocket bodies in space, by orbit