How is that “gas-station posing as a nation” operating satellites?
It was an old, defunct satellite that’s just whizzing around at 10,000 mph until gravity wins................
Given that it was a defunct satellite, they are not operating. Celestrak.com has a nice box score of satellites by nation or agency (e.g. UN or NATO). The U.S. is certainly dominant, with most of its satellites active. Britain, man for man and dollar for pound, is about as good as the U.S. and most of its satellites are also active. Russia has filled the skies with space junk, and is responsible for something like 99% of all orbital debris, save that from the Chinese stunt where they deliberately intercepted one of their own defunct meteorological satellites.
Ever since the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster we have been using Russian rockets to launch crews to the ISS.