RSSInfographic: The Earth’s Satellites, Sorted by Nation
By John Farrier in Science & Tech on Jan 31, 2010 at 1:23 pm
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VonSkippy
What a load of crap. Information is sorted by OPERATIONAL STATUS not functionality. Since almost all of those birds are communication, weather, geostudies type, where does the “big brother” FUD come in?
prippey
What’s up with that globe? The oceans are invisible but the far hemisphere is all wrong. It appears to be a view centered on the atlantic ocean but rotated 90 degrees clockwise. I don’t understand.
SSD
Maximum Crap and total incomplete…f.e Hellas Sat 2 is missing (Greece’s Satellite) and possibly others(?) …and yes what’s with the “Big Brother”thing…maybe gizmodo should check more carefully info posted and not only judging by a -somewhat- pretty pic.
Lauralee
*Big brother* is often used as a metonymy for government, so cool yer jets, cadets! Anyway, I thought it was interesting to see the ratios of junk to functional equipment.
Yofi
Why do China and Russia have exactly the same amount of orbiting space debris? Is that a mistake?
cola
I don’t disagree with any of the criticisms of the infographic here, but who is really going to remember the details of this thing in a week? I basically take away what I already assumed. There are a lot of satellites, and most of them American or Russian.
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