Statistics of Earth Remote Sensing Satellite Launches and Industry Trends in 2025
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Date: 29 january 2026
Type of publication: news
RACURS released a review Earth Remote Sensing Satellite Launches and Industry Trends in 2025.
In 2025, 315 space launches were successfully completed, which is 25% more than in 2024. Earth remote sensing spacecraft (ERS satellites) were on board every fourth launch vehicle.
This publication considers ERS satellites primarily for civilian purposes: commercial, scientific-educational, demonstration satellites, as well as hydrometeorological spacecraft, civilian electronic intelligence satellites, including automatic identification system (AIS) satellites for maritime vessels. The inclusion of the latter in the pool of civilian-purpose spacecraft is in line with the established practice of statistics keeping by the international leader in Earth observation consulting — the company NovaSpace.
Thus, the launch statistics for 2025 considered in the article exclude ERS satellites primarily for defense and reconnaissance purposes, in particular, American Starshield (85 spacecraft), Chinese Yaogan (9 satellites), South Korean KorSat (2 satellites), European CSO-3 and LuxeoSys, Israeli Ofeq-19. Nevertheless, we cannot completely avoid the defense direction when assessing trends in the ERS sector.
More details are available in the review.
