Launch statistics
Building the archive: 140 of about 7650 launches loaded, up to December 1960. The free Launch Library API allows a few requests per hour, so the full history since 1957 fills in over several hours.
Orbital launch attempts140
since 1957
Success rate, all time60.7%
Launches in 202640
Launches per year
Stacked by the country of the launch site (Baikonur counts as Kazakhstan).
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Top launch providers
- United States Air Force 36 58%
- Soviet Space Program 19 47%
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration 18 39%
- SpaceX 17 100%
- US Navy 17 18%
- Army Ballistic Missile Agency 9 44%
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation 6 100%
- Rocket Lab 4 100%
- LandSpace 2 100%
- Arianespace 1 100%
- Avio S.p.A 1 100%
- CAS Space 1 100%
- ExPace 1 100%
- Galactic Energy 1 100%
- Indian Space Research Organization 1 100%
Top rockets
- Thor Agena A 15 60%
- Falcon 9 Block 5 14 100%
- Vanguard 11 27%
- Vostok-L 8K72 9 33%
- Juno II 7 57%
- Juno-I 6 50%
- Little Joe 6 33%
- Project Pilot 6 0%
- Thor DM-21 Ablestar 5 60%
- Electron 4 100%
- Vostok 8K72 4 75%
- Atlas LV-3 Agena A 3 33%
- Thor Able I 3 33%
- Thor DM-21 Agena-B 3 67%
- Thor Delta 3 67%
Busiest launch sites
- US Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA 52 50%
- US Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA 29 72%
- KZ Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan 20 50%
- US Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA 8 38%
- Air launch to Suborbital flight 6 0%
- CN Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China 6 100%
- NZ Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand 4 100%
- CN Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China 3 100%
- GF Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana 2 100%
- US Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA 2 100%