This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchelor.

Bob Zimmerman keeps the website behind the black

watching the expansion of commercial space

into low Earth orbit and beyond.

Now he's giving us metrics

that help us understand how far we've come.

Annual launch record exceeding, Bob, this is a big number.

What does it mean?

Good evening to you.

Good evening, yes.

The launches continue.

But over the weekend, there have been more launches since then.

But over the weekend, we had two American launches, and those two

launches brought the total number of global launches worldwide to over 300 plus. And you have to

understand, put some perspective on this until about 2020, the whole world struggled to maybe make 100 launches in a year successfully.

That was at their best.

And most of those 100 year launch years were when the Soviet Union existed.

And it put up a lot of quick reconnaissance satellites that really didn't do a very good job,

but it was a jobs program.

So they kept doing it.

When Soviet Union fell, they stopped doing that.

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