Smallsats Accounted for 95% of 2022 Satellite Launches: BryceTech

Of the 2,303 small satellites launched in 2022, communications accounted for 80% of them, with remote sensing making up another 10%, BryceTech said Tuesday. Smallsats were 95% of all the satellites launched, about the same percentage as 2021, it said. The 2022 smallsats totaled 33% of all smallsats launched in the past decade, it said. Of that 2,303, SpaceX's Starlink and OneWeb accounted for more than 1,700, it said. Bryce said governments are increasingly interested in smallsats as a way to augment their existing capabilities, and 2023 will likely have the first deployments of smallsats for U.S. national security.