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Orbital launch attempts

launches · GCAT (Jonathan McDowell) General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects, launch list, GCAT launch list, orbital and deep-space attempts by launching agency's country, via satellitedata.dev · every attempt to reach orbit, failures included, counted for the launching agency's country

Countries with any figure
17
Years
1957–2025
Compare on
2025 17 countries
Newest year
2025 17 countries
Every year
1 countries
Stop before 2025
0 countries

Statistical offices report at different speeds, so the newest year usually has fewer countries than the years before it. A country's "latest" figure elsewhere on this site can therefore be from different years for different countries; rankings only compare countries with a figure for the same year.

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Countries with a figure for Orbital launch attempts, each yearThe best-covered year has 17 countries. 2025 is the last year with at least 90% of that (17); 2025 has 17.
05101520196019701980199020002010202090% of 17
Indicator: Count of countries in the geo registry with a non-empty value; Orbital launch attempts, launches, yearly (every attempt to reach orbit, failures included, counted for the launching agency's country); GCAT launch list, orbital and deep-space attempts by launching agency's country via satellitedata.devSource: GCAT (Jonathan McDowell), General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects, launch list (CC BY 4.0), via satellitedata.dev launches, version 2026-10-27.387cbd4f53
Show the numbers (69 rows)
YearCountries with a figure
202517
202415
202315
202215
202115
202015
201915
201815
201715
201614
201514
201414
201314
201214
201114
201014
200914
200813
200712
200612
200512
200412
200312
200212
200112
200012
199912
199811
199710
19969
19959
19949
19939
19929
19918
19908
19898
19888
19877
19867
19857
19847
19837
19827
19817
19807
19797
19786
19776
19766
19756
19746
19736
19726
19716
19706
19694
19684
19674
19663
19652
19641
19631
19621
19611
19601
19591
19581
19571
Which countries have figures for Orbital launch attempts, by year17 countries have at least one figure from 1957 to 2025; 1 has every year, 0 have gaps, and 0 stop before 2025.
19601965197019751980198519901995200020052010201520202025

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Indicator: Orbital launch attempts, launches, yearly (every attempt to reach orbit, failures included, counted for the launching agency's country); GCAT launch list, orbital and deep-space attempts by launching agency's country via satellitedata.devSource: GCAT (Jonathan McDowell), General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects, launch list (CC BY 4.0), via satellitedata.dev launches, version 2026-10-27.387cbd4f53

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Every country from satellitedata.dev (live, no key; GCAT (Jonathan McDowell) data, this exact version):

curl "https://api.satellitedata.dev/v1/launches@2026-10-27.387cbd4f53/download/launches.parquet"

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