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id | name | unit | description | createdAt | updatedAt | code | coverage | timespan | datasetId | sourceId | shortUnit | display | columnOrder | originalMetadata | grapherConfigAdmin | shortName | catalogPath | dimensions | schemaVersion | processingLevel | processingLog | titlePublic | titleVariant | attributionShort | attribution | descriptionShort | descriptionFromProducer | descriptionKey | descriptionProcessing | licenses | license | grapherConfigETL | type | sort | dataChecksum | metadataChecksum |
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819321 | Annual number of objects launched into outer space | objects | 2024-01-04 15:14:33 | 2024-07-08 18:00:18 | 1957-2023 | 6344 | { "unit": "objects", "numDecimalPlaces": 0 } |
0 | annual_launches | grapher/space/2024-01-04/object_launches/object_launches#annual_launches | 2 | major | UNOOSA | Annual number of satellites, probes, landers, crewed spacecrafts, and space station flight elements, launched into Earth orbit or beyond. | [ "Objects are defined here as satellites, probes, landers, crewed spacecrafts, and space station flight elements launched into Earth orbit or beyond.", "This data is based on national registers of launches submitted to the UN by participating nations. According to UN estimates, the data captures around 88% of all objects launched.", "When an object is marked by the source as launched by a country on behalf of another one, the launch is attributed to the latter country.", "When a launch is made jointly by several countries, it is recorded in each of these countries' time series but only once in the 'World' series." ] |
- We scrape the data from the source by iterating through all objects in the online index. - We harmonize the names of countries. When an object is marked by the source as launched by a country on behalf of another one, we attribute the launch to the latter country. - We aggregate launches by country and year. When a launch is made jointly by several countries, it is recorded in each of these countries' time series. - We calculate the total number of launches globally. This is available as 'World' in the data. When a launch is made jointly by several countries, it is only recorded once in the 'World' series. - We also calculate the cumulative number of launches over time. | int | [] |
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