Who launched the most rocket in each decade
A scatterplot, built with the Vega-Lite API and rendered by Vega, shows the launch counts of various space agencies and companies over time. Each point represents a single rocket launch, positioned by its date and the responsible organization, revealing which entities dominated each decade, such as RVSN USSR in the 1960s and SpaceX more recently. The visualization uses data from a Kaggle dataset on space missions, with tooltips displaying rocket names, and the code relies on Vega-Lite's markPoint encoding and the d3 CSV loader for data ingestion.
AI-generated descriptionA visualization constructed using the vega-lite-api.
The data shown here comes from Kaggle: All Space Missions from 1957, via Gist: Space Missions Dataset (From 1957)
We can clearly seen by this chart that RVSN USSR launched many rockets till 1992 which makes Russia the most developed country in space mission in that period. After that period VKS RF plays the same role as RVSN USSR in Russia and keeps leading the world's space field. In recent decade we can see that CASC and ULA launche many rockets which indicates that the space strength of China and the US are increasing these years. Also, the SpaceX launches many rockets recently and we can know that this is a sign that commercial spacecraft will play an important role in the future.