Why Luxembourg would be considered more active in space than Italy which had 7 astronauts in space and has several companies working in the aerospace sector?
because Luxembourg may not have that much astronauts but they have larger number of communications and remote sensing satellites, and is one of the members of ESA and carries space activities. More over, this nation is also home of the headquarters od SES (Société Européenne des Satellites) and Intelsat.
anyway, this ranking just shows the top 10 countries and Italy may be on the proceeding numbers just overtaken by these on the list :)
anyway, this ranking just shows the top 10 countries and Italy may be on the proceeding numbers just overtaken by these on the list :)