7,154 orbital launches since Sputnik — most from pads still firing today

Asked:

“Every orbital launch from 1957 to today — for each one list the year, the launch site, the operating bloc and whether the site is still active.”

The rows cover 7,154 of 7,154 distinct orbital launch attempts (successes, failures, partials and unknowns; pad explosions excluded) from 1957 through 2026, current to the 2026-09-15 update of Jonathan McDowell's GCAT — a single source, with Orbital Radar's independent year archive linked per row as corroboration. Every launch carries a year and site; 6,880 have a resolved operating bloc (274 blank where a composite agency code did not resolve) and 7,153 a resolved site-active flag (one blank). Operating bloc means the state GCAT associates with the launch-service organization, not the payload owner nor necessarily the site's territory.

1957

Circle area = launches at that site through the selected year. site still active site no longer active. Hover a circle for the site's name, count and latest launches.

Launches per year, 1957–2026. The bar for the selected year is dark; click or scrub to move.

2025 is the densest year on record with 324 launches — more than the first eight years of the space age combined — and 2026 already holds 218 through 15 September. orbitalradar.com

Plesetsk (NIIP-53) is the single most-used origin with 1,414 launches, ahead of Cape Canaveral's 998; Baykonur's total splits across its NIIP-5 (827) and GIK-5 (666) naming phases. planet4589.org

The USSR (2,388) and USA (2,112) account for 4,500 launches between them; Russia adds 868 post-Soviet, China 765, France 346, and New Zealand — absent before Rocket Lab — 81. planet4589.org

Only 15 launches left from sites GCAT now marks inactive; 7,138 came from sites with at least one phase still operating, and one launch has no resolved flag. planet4589.org

All 7,154 launches

launch_id	year	launch_date	launch_site	operating_bloc	site_still_active	mission	launch_vehicle	agency	code	source

Click a header to sort. Each row links its GCAT launch file and the Orbital Radar year page; hover a row's site cell title for site location and coordinates.

Method: GCAT Release 1.8.8 (planet4589.org), update of 2026-09-15 — 7,154 rows, one per distinct orbital launch or attempt (launch category beginning O: success, failure, partial or unknown; pad explosions and aborts excluded), 1957 to 2026-09-15. Operating bloc is the state GCAT ties to the launch-service organization; 274 rows keep a blank bloc where the composite agency code did not resolve, and one row lacks a site-active flag — none are dropped. A site counts as active if any historical naming phase of the same physical site has a null stop date, which GCAT defines as still operating or assumed so; air and mobile launches use GCAT's ascent site when supplied. Map circles aggregate launches sharing coordinates; the table holds every row, paged 25 at a time with full search, filters and CSV download. Single-sourced from GCAT; Orbital Radar year pages linked per row as independent corroboration.

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