From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh 'K' Hopkins)
Subject: International overview
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 00:02:11 GMT

I saw this in Space News a short while back and thought y'all might be 
interested.  The data is theirs, the format's mine as are all potential mistakes


Country         Civil Space     Programs                Launch Sites
                Budget                                 (operational to orbit)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Argentina       $10 million     Astronomy satellites        

Australia       $13 million     Deep Space tracking,
                                space science

Austria         $28.5 million   ESA, mission to Mir	Kourou

Belgium         $134.8 million  ESA                     Kourou

Brazil          $100 million    launch vehicles, 
				remote sensing sats

Canada          $292 million    ESA associate member,
				robotics, comsats  

China           $1.2 billion    launchers, comsats,     Jiquan, Taiyuan,
				meteorological sats     Xichang

Denmark         $28.9 million   ESA                     Kourou

Finland         $46 million     ESA associate member

France          $1.38 billion   ESA, Mir mission,       Kourou
				remote sensing   

Germany         $969 million    ESA, comsats, space     Kourou
				plane research

India           $182 million    Launchers, comsats      Shar

Ireland         $5.9 million    ESA                     Kourou 

Israel          $6 million      launchers, comsats,     Palmachim AFB
				researech sats

Italy           $973.4 million  ESA, tethers            Kourou, San Marco

Japan           $1.262 billion  Space Station,          Tanegeshima (NASDA)
				remote sensing, lunar   Kagoshima (ISAS)
				probes, launchers,
				space science

Netherlands     $87.4 million   ESA, X-ray & IR cameras  Kourou

Norway          $29.2 million   ESA, sounding rockets   Kourou

Pakistan        $7.5 million    Research sats, 
				sounding rockets

Russia          $741 million    launchers, planetary    Plestek, Kapustin Yar,
				probes, Mir, comsats    Baikonur
				remote sensing

South Africa       ???          launchers & sats       

South Korea     $50 million     comsats

Spain           $144.6 million  ESA microsatellites     Kourou

Sweden          $81.9 million   ESA, comsats, science   Kourou
				sats

Switzerland     $60.8 million   ESA                     Kourou

Taiwan          $75 million     comsats

Ukraine            ???          launchers, instrumenets

United Kingdom  $206.6 million  ESA, remote sensing    Kourou

United States   $14.7 billion   shuttle, Freedom       Kennedy, Vandenberg AFB
		(NASA & NOAA)   space science,         Cape Canaveral AFB,
				planetary probes,      Wallops
				remote sensing


Notes:   Launch sites for Russia include former Soviet sites outside Russia's
borders.  Budget is given at current exchange rates.  ESA has a budget of $3
billion.  Projects include launchers and space station programs



-- 
Josh Hopkins        "I believe that there are moments in history when challenges
                     occur of such a compelling nature that to miss them is to 
j-hopkins@uiuc.edu   miss the whole meaning of an epoch.  Space is such a 
                     challenge"       - James A. Michener