Space Stats

Updated once to twice a month.
Last update:  2025-03-30
Orbital launches by year
(stacked by countries, by outcome)

Manned orbital launches by year
Astronauts launched by year
BEO launches by year
(stacked by countries, by outcome)

Launch Sites
Orbital Rockets A-Z
Most launched rockets

Orbital launches by year:
1957 • 1958 • 1959 • 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969 • 1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979 • 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989 • 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999 • 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • 2024 • 2025 • 

Updates

2025-03-23: Site updates added to the index page to be easier to see the latest changes sitewide and in the database.
2025-03-22: Rocket pages updated with details about different variants. These part is still work in progress.
2025-02-01: Last month, Falcon 9 surpassed Proton to become the 3rd most launched orbital rocket in history. A new page added to see the most launched rockets in history.
2025-01-25: A short summary at the top of the year pages to show total number of launches and failures.
2025-01-23: New map on year pages showing number of launches done by each country/group of countries.

Latest launches:

DateSiteRocketPayloadOutcome
2025-03-30AndøyaSpectrum no payloadfailure
2025-03-29WenchangCZ-7A TJS 16success
2025-03-26Ahuriri PointElectron OTC P1-1 - P1-8 (Lemur-2 TBD1 - TBD8)success
2025-03-26XichangCZ-3B G3Tianlian 2-04success
2025-03-26VandenbergFalcon 9 v1.2 B5Starlink 11-7success
2025-03-24Cape CanaveralFalcon 9 v1.2 B5USA 498 (NROL 69)success
2025-03-21VandenbergFalcon 9 v1.2 B5Starshield (NROL-57)success
2025-03-21JiuquanCeres-1 3Yunyao-1 43 - 48 success
2025-03-18Ahuriri PointElectron Kinéis 4A - 4Esuccess
2025-03-18Cape CanaveralFalcon 9 v1.2 B5Starlink 12-25success