List of first satellites by country

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List of first satellites by country

Quality:

Timeline of first artificial satellites by country - Wikipedia timeline. Article “List of first satellites by country” in English Wikipedia has 38.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 47 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “List of first satellites by country”, its content was written by 83 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 109 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 291 times in English Wikipedia and cited 362 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #17991 in July 2022
  • Global: #65385 in December 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #106144 in August 2023
  • Global: #185316 in August 2023

There are 4 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Liste der ersten Satelliten nach Staat
46.6678
2English (en)
List of first satellites by country
38.1248
3Japanese (ja)
各国初の人工衛星の年表
17.8617
4Swedish (sv)
Tidslinje över första artificiella satelliterna efter land
13.3312
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "List of first satellites by country" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
List of first satellites by country
353 513
2Japanese (ja)
各国初の人工衛星の年表
21 801
3German (de)
Liste der ersten Satelliten nach Staat
8 491
4Swedish (sv)
Tidslinje över första artificiella satelliterna efter land
3 467
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "List of first satellites by country" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
List of first satellites by country
4 397
2Japanese (ja)
各国初の人工衛星の年表
142
3German (de)
Liste der ersten Satelliten nach Staat
98
4Swedish (sv)
Tidslinje över första artificiella satelliterna efter land
13
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "List of first satellites by country" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
List of first satellites by country
83
2German (de)
Liste der ersten Satelliten nach Staat
13
3Japanese (ja)
各国初の人工衛星の年表
7
4Swedish (sv)
Tidslinje över första artificiella satelliterna efter land
6
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "List of first satellites by country" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Liste der ersten Satelliten nach Staat
0
2English (en)
List of first satellites by country
0
3Japanese (ja)
各国初の人工衛星の年表
0
4Swedish (sv)
Tidslinje över första artificiella satelliterna efter land
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "List of first satellites by country" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
List of first satellites by country
291
2Japanese (ja)
各国初の人工衛星の年表
64
3German (de)
Liste der ersten Satelliten nach Staat
5
4Swedish (sv)
Tidslinje över första artificiella satelliterna efter land
2
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Liste der ersten Satelliten nach Staat
enEnglish
List of first satellites by country
jaJapanese
各国初の人工衛星の年表
svSwedish
Tidslinje över första artificiella satelliterna efter land

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#106144
08.2023
Global:
#185316
08.2023

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#17991
07.2022
Global:
#65385
12.2023

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Timeline of first artificial satellites by country from Wikipedia articles about Artificial satellite, CubeSat, Timeline of first orbital launches by country, List of communications satellite firsts and 2024 in spaceflight. Whereas reading the article about Timeline of first artificial satellites by country people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Explorer 1, Sputnik 1, Timeline of first orbital launches by country, Ariel 1 and Alouette 1.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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