The most powerful countries in the entire world are at the very forefront of the greatest air space
technologies being invented by humans in order to
Pursued space research and exploration and while aerospace technology used to be limited to only a few countries
Over the years the scenario has really changed like a lot many ambitious nations are investing in elaborate space
Exploration programs to ensure that other nations don't dominate over them
So in this episode of FTD facts, I'm taking a look at the top five space agencies in the entire world
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We're diving into space again. We haven't spoken about space in a very long time. Well not exactly
About space but things involving space because we're looking at the space agencies
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we have the CNS a the China National Space Administration China owns and manages the second largest fleet of
spacecrafts in orbit right now and the Chinese National Space
Administration is one of the world's leading space agencies that handles the planning and the development of Chinese space programs while
State-owned China aerospace science and technology corporation or the CAS C similar to JPL, which is a Jet Propulsion
lab for NASA is the primary contractor responsible for the design and the
development of the launch vehicles and satellites as well as commercial launch services now for a main FTD fax viewers
You probably expected that is ro was on this list the Indian Space Research
Organization or just call it is ro or is ro whatever one you prefer the Indian Space Research
Organization is a Space Agency of the government of India with its headquarters located in Bangalore
It's froze vision is this to harness space technology for national development?
While pursuing planetary exploration and research of space science. Its role was established in the year
1969 and it built its first satellite called the era bata which was launched by the Soviet Union on April 9th
1957 the biggest success of the agency came with its Mars orbiter mission
In which we saw its Mars orbiter enter into the orbit of Mars in the very first
Attempt making India the first country to ever do that the next space agency. I want to look at is the
ESA or the european space agency the european space agency pursues space exploration programs
Thanks to the cooperation and contribution of the 22 member states
The ESA is an intergovernmental organization
With 2,000 employees and its headquarters located in Paris, France
The ESA has ten states as its founding members including the UK Belgium France, Denmark Italy, Germany Spain
Netherlands Switzerland and Sweden the ESA launched its first major scientific mission the Causby in the year
1975 in the month of August to be exact and its first communications satellite the OTS - which stood for
orbital test satellite - it reached orbit in may of
1978 next up is the RF sa the Russian Federation Space Agency
The Russian space program is one of the strongest in the world second only to the United States of America
It's also known in full as a Rus cosmos State
Corporation for space activities
Or just simply Rus cosmos
It's responsible for aerospace research and space programs that are carried out in Russia
the world's first artificial satellite
Sputnik 1 was launched by the Soviet Union in the year 1957 which caused the Americans to amp up their space
Operations as they were approaching the Cold War era
founded prior to NASA in the year 1922 the RFS a initially suffered financial difficulties
But they later managed to launch many successful missions. Their current annual budget is approximately
5.6 billion dollars coming in at number 1 we have NASA NASA stands for the National
aeronautics and space administration
the United States accounts for one-third of all the operational
spacecrafts that are currently orbiting around the world with NASA
The United States has led several space exploration projects from the Apollo moon landing missions the Skylab space station
the International Space Station or the ISS to the Mars Exploration Rover
Basically ever since Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. NASA has been the leading space agency in the world established in October
1958 NASA also holds a record for the first probes which visited all outer space planets including Pluto
Helping make America the most advanced country in space technology. Okay, so there you have it
Those are your top five most powerful space agencies
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