Russia grabs 45% spacecraft launches this year

knight17 writes: "This year was a really good year for space exploring nations,but Russians maybe the most happiest among them, because they grabbehuge 45% of the spacecraft launching marketd a this year.The coming year is also very good for Russian space programs, next year they will finish the GLONASS navigation project.US is at second place.China & Japan is at third with 6 launches each.. The Russian officials said that the launches of spacecrafts will be lesser than what this year has been seen."