2021 TSRQ4 – Commercial Spacecraft Boost Payload Deployment to New High

Galileos 27-28 seen atop their gold-wrapped Fregat upper stage within their Soyuz launcher fairing. The satellites launched in 2021. Source: ESA
Introduction | Unprecedented numbers of spacecraft were deployed during 2021. For the year, space operators successfully deployed 1,730 spacecraft, an incr...