12. Are most of the satellites for military and defense purposes, or don't we know? (A K2S Question)

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Only about a quarter of the 60 or so launches a year are military. Another third are purely commercial. The remaining launches are governmental payloads for science, navigation, weather, and remote sensing.


Answer provided by Derek Webber


Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer