{
  "generated_at": "2026-07-11T12:09:31.727Z",
  "site": "https://vesperio.ai",
  "summary": "MCC has tracked 140 items from 133 distinct sources. 16 major-or-seismic items landed in the last 30 days, and the feed is averaging 28.2 items per week.",
  "stats": [
    {
      "id": "items-tracked",
      "question": "What is MCC tracking?",
      "answer": "MCC tracks 140 verified items across 11 categories, led by financial (28).",
      "anchor": "https://vesperio.ai/stats/#items-tracked",
      "rows": {
        "financial": 28,
        "launch": 20,
        "procurement": 17,
        "product": 17,
        "partnership": 13,
        "regulatory": 13,
        "constellation": 12,
        "contract": 11,
        "human-spaceflight": 4,
        "incident": 4,
        "geopolitical": 1
      },
      "method": "Count of published feed items per category, all-time. Test fixtures excluded.",
      "citation": "\"MCC tracks 140 verified items across 11 categories, led by financial (28).\" MCC, https://vesperio.ai/stats/#items-tracked, retrieved 2026-07-11."
    },
    {
      "id": "velocity",
      "question": "How fast is the news flowing?",
      "answer": "The feed averaged 29.8 items per week over the last four weeks.",
      "anchor": "https://vesperio.ai/stats/#velocity",
      "rows": {
        "06-13": 20,
        "06-20": 9,
        "06-27": 32,
        "07-04": 58
      },
      "method": "Items per 7-day bucket by event date, most recent four buckets; bucket labels are the week start (MM-DD). Momentum versus the prior four weeks will appear once eight weeks of history exist.",
      "citation": "\"The feed averaged 29.8 items per week over the last four weeks.\" MCC, https://vesperio.ai/stats/#velocity, retrieved 2026-07-11."
    },
    {
      "id": "launch-cadence",
      "question": "Who is launching most often?",
      "answer": "Rocket Lab launches every 6 days on average, the fastest tracked cadence.",
      "anchor": "https://vesperio.ai/stats/#launch-cadence",
      "rows": {
        "Rocket Lab": 4,
        "SpaceX": 4,
        "Amazon": 2,
        "Isar Aerospace": 2,
        "NASA": 2,
        "Planet Labs": 2,
        "U.S. Space Force": 2,
        "ArianeGroup": 1,
        "Arianespace": 1,
        "Blue Origin": 1,
        "CASC": 1,
        "ESA": 1,
        "Firefly Aerospace": 1,
        "JAXA": 1,
        "Katalyst Space Technologies": 1,
        "Latitude": 1,
        "Maritime Launch Services": 1,
        "Mitsubishi Heavy Industries": 1,
        "National Reconnaissance Office": 1,
        "Northrop Grumman": 1,
        "Rocket Factory Augsburg": 1,
        "SaxaVord Spaceport": 1,
        "Skyroot Aerospace": 1,
        "SSC Space": 1,
        "Synspective": 1,
        "ULA": 1,
        "Unseenlabs": 1
      },
      "method": "Launch-category items grouped by the companies on each item; cadence is the mean days between a provider's tracked launches, shown once a provider has three or more.",
      "citation": "\"Rocket Lab launches every 6 days on average, the fastest tracked cadence.\" MCC, https://vesperio.ai/stats/#launch-cadence, retrieved 2026-07-11."
    },
    {
      "id": "snr-mix",
      "question": "How reliable is the feed?",
      "answer": "110 of 140 items (79%) sit at SNR 4 or 5; every item shows the calculation behind its score.",
      "anchor": "https://vesperio.ai/stats/#snr-mix",
      "rows": {
        "snr 4": 66,
        "snr 5": 44,
        "snr 3": 15,
        "snr 2": 13,
        "snr 1": 2
      },
      "method": "Items per signal-to-noise score, all-time. 5 = direct source from the concerned party; 4 = wide reporting or an established aggregator; 3 = a few reputable sources; 2 and 1 = weakly corroborated or single-source claims, published and labelled.",
      "citation": "\"110 of 140 items (79%) sit at SNR 4 or 5; every item shows the calculation behind its score.\" MCC, https://vesperio.ai/stats/#snr-mix, retrieved 2026-07-11."
    },
    {
      "id": "impact-mix",
      "question": "How big are the stories?",
      "answer": "3 of 140 tracked items are rated seismic; the bar for reshaping the industry stays high.",
      "anchor": "https://vesperio.ai/stats/#impact-mix",
      "rows": {
        "notable": 81,
        "noise": 39,
        "major": 17,
        "seismic": 3
      },
      "method": "Items per impact level (seismic, major, notable, noise), all-time.",
      "citation": "\"3 of 140 tracked items are rated seismic; the bar for reshaping the industry stays high.\" MCC, https://vesperio.ai/stats/#impact-mix, retrieved 2026-07-11."
    },
    {
      "id": "sats-on-orbit",
      "question": "How many satellites are actually up?",
      "answer": "Starlink leads the registry with 10741 satellites recorded on orbit.",
      "anchor": "https://vesperio.ai/stats/#sats-on-orbit",
      "rows": {
        "Starlink": 10741,
        "OneWeb": 651,
        "Project Kuiper": 393,
        "Planet (fleet)": 200,
        "PlanetScope": 100,
        "Spire Lemur": 73,
        "Iridium": 66,
        "ICEYE": 51,
        "HawkEye 360": 39,
        "Jilin-1 Gaofen": 31,
        "Globalstar": 25,
        "Kineis": 25,
        "Satellogic": 19,
        "Unseenlabs": 16,
        "BlackSky (fleet)": 15,
        "AST SpaceMobile BlueBird": 14,
        "SkySat": 14,
        "BlackSky Gen-2": 11,
        "GHGSat": 10,
        "Jilin-1 Kuanfu": 10,
        "O3b mPOWER": 10,
        "Vantor (fleet)": 10,
        "Capella Space": 9,
        "Jilin-1 early series": 9,
        "Pelican": 8,
        "Synspective StriX": 8,
        "WorldView Legion": 6,
        "Astrocast": 5,
        "Axelspace GRUS": 5,
        "Umbra": 5,
        "BlackSky Gen-3": 4,
        "CSA / MDA RADARSAT (fleet)": 4,
        "Myriota": 4,
        "Sentinel-1": 4,
        "WorldView (Maxar legacy)": 4,
        "Crewed vehicles": 3,
        "Pixxel Fireflies": 3,
        "RADARSAT Constellation Mission": 3,
        "Sentinel-2": 3,
        "OQ Technology": 2,
        "Pleiades": 2,
        "Pleiades Neo": 2,
        "Sentinel-3": 2,
        "Sentinel-6": 2,
        "SPOT": 2,
        "International Space Station": 1,
        "ISI EROS": 1,
        "RADARSAT-2": 1,
        "Sentinel-5P": 1,
        "Tanager": 1,
        "Tiangong": 1,
        "Albedo Clarity": 0
      },
      "method": "The sats_active_verified field of each registry profile (CelesTrak tracking count), falling back to the operator-claimed figure; every value carries its own source and as-of date on the profile page. Operators without a sourced figure are absent, not estimated.",
      "citation": "\"Starlink leads the registry with 10741 satellites recorded on orbit.\" MCC, https://vesperio.ai/stats/#sats-on-orbit, retrieved 2026-07-11."
    },
    {
      "id": "launch-sites",
      "question": "Where do launches happen?",
      "answer": "Baikonur Cosmodrome leads the tracked sites with 1563 launches hosted, all-time.",
      "anchor": "https://vesperio.ai/stats/#launch-sites",
      "rows": {
        "Baikonur Cosmodrome": 1563,
        "Cape Canaveral SFS": 1120,
        "Vandenberg SFB": 897,
        "Guiana Space Centre (Kourou)": 334,
        "Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center": 291,
        "Kennedy Space Center": 281,
        "Xichang Satellite Launch Center": 241,
        "Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center": 157,
        "Satish Dhawan Space Centre": 103,
        "Tanegashima Space Center": 98,
        "Wallops Flight Facility": 87,
        "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 (Mahia)": 78
      },
      "method": "All-time launches hosted per registry spaceport profile (top 12 shown), each figure sourced to its Launch Library location record with an as-of date.",
      "citation": "\"Baikonur Cosmodrome leads the tracked sites with 1563 launches hosted, all-time.\" MCC, https://vesperio.ai/stats/#launch-sites, retrieved 2026-07-11."
    },
    {
      "id": "vehicle-flight-counts",
      "question": "Which rockets have flown the most?",
      "answer": "Falcon 9 leads with 604 recorded flights.",
      "anchor": "https://vesperio.ai/stats/#vehicle-flight-counts",
      "rows": {
        "Falcon 9": 604,
        "Ariane 5": 117,
        "Long March 3B": 116,
        "Atlas V": 110,
        "Long March 2D": 100,
        "Electron": 91,
        "H-IIA": 50,
        "Ceres-1": 23,
        "Vega": 22,
        "Antares": 18,
        "Long March 11": 18,
        "Delta IV Heavy": 16,
        "Long March 6": 15,
        "Falcon Heavy": 12,
        "Long March 7": 11,
        "H-IIB": 9,
        "Long March 5": 9,
        "LVM3 (GSLV Mk III)": 9,
        "Ariane 6": 8,
        "H3": 8,
        "Hyperbola-1": 8,
        "Zhuque-2": 8,
        "Firefly Alpha": 7,
        "Vega-C": 7,
        "Long March 8": 6,
        "Falcon 1": 5,
        "Nuri (KSLV-II)": 4,
        "Vulcan": 4,
        "New Glenn": 3,
        "SSLV": 3,
        "Gravity-1": 2,
        "Spectrum": 1,
        "Tianlong-2": 1,
        "Tianlong-3": 1,
        "Agnibaan": 0,
        "Neutron": 0,
        "Nova": 0,
        "RFA One": 0,
        "Terran R": 0,
        "Vikram-I": 0
      },
      "method": "The flights_total field of each registry vehicle profile, sourced per profile; families split across variants record no aggregate.",
      "citation": "\"Falcon 9 leads with 604 recorded flights.\" MCC, https://vesperio.ai/stats/#vehicle-flight-counts, retrieved 2026-07-11."
    }
  ]
}