Currently there are more than two hundred and a half satellites in orbit.
According to N2Wo.com website data, the combined satellite number of 1504 countries of former Soviet Russia, Russia, 1616, China, 298, Japan 172, India 88, France 68, Britain 4, South Korea 24, Spain 23, 14 of Turkey, 13 of Saudi Arabia, 3 of Pakistan.
Besides, many satellites of different international organizations are currently in orbit.
Meanwhile, the history of satellite launch in space is very old. Russia is the first satellite in the world. On October 4, 1957, a satellite named 'Sputnik 1' was sent to space. Later that year, Russia launched another satellite called 'Sputnik II'. This satellite was a passenger named Lika, a dog. After one year of Russia's victory in Moscow, in 1958, the United States launched 'Explorer-1' in space. Currently there are more than 10 thousand satellites in space.
Satellite launch in space began in Russia's hands. But the exclusive mastery of satellites is now in the hands of the United States.
In fact, Satellite Bangabandhu-1 was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, at 2:14 pm on Friday. It will take 8-11 days to go to orbit Satellites by passing the 35,776 km route from Earth station. And ready to be fully prepared in 3 months.
It is to be noted that Bangladesh's full-length satellite Bangabandhu was launched in space, but Bangladesh has already been in the satellite era. Because, a group of private universities of BRAC launched their invented nano satellite BRAC Enshaya on June 4 this year.