The number of satellites launched globally until 2019 is 1886 including 402 GEO satellites, 126 MEO satellites and 1232 LEO satellites, while Russia alone has about 500 satellites.
Iraq has only one satellite, TigriSat, designed and manufactured in cooperation with the Italian University of Lafanza.
The Iraqi satellite TigriSat was launched on Thursday, 19/6/2014 from the Yazni space base station in the Russian Federation and aboard the Dnepr missile.
The Iraqi satellite TigriSatconsidered as an experimental satellite and the cost of its launch amounted to 60 thousand euros along with operational life of three years.
