**3.3.15 Vietnam**

Vietnam is about the join the "Others" soon, with its two remote sensing satellites from France and Belgium, and a second telecommunication satellite from the US, currently on assembly.

Clearly, these latecomers are highly motivated and possess modest funding schemes mainly for "space for improving daily life" applications. Participation of the pioneers' space race with their local contribution will be valuable nationally and also encourage the rest of the world to join in this prestigious but very expensive work.

Fig. 3. Satellite operating nations. Dark blue: LEO, GEO and outer space, blue: LEO only (excluding cubesats), light blue: countries operating turnkey satellites systems
