435 launch rows extracted from live launch-catalog and encyclopedia pages, spanning Sputnik 1 in 1957 through catalogued 2026 flights — a partial index of a source that claims 7,353 orbital launches since 1957. One dot per extracted launch: lanes and colour show the operating bloc where the source stated one, fill shows whether the launch site is reported active as of 2026-08-26. Most rows came off pages that never named a bloc — that gap is drawn, not hidden.
| Year | Mission | Launch site | Bloc | Country | Site active | Outcome | Source |
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Method: 435 candidate launch rows extracted from live search results — Orbital Radar launch-database pages (by year, decade, vehicle, operator, site, country) and Wikipedia “year in spaceflight” pages and their mirrors. Each row carries at most: year, mission, launch site, operating bloc, operating country, outcome, and whether the site is reported active as of 2026-08-26; fields the source page did not state are left blank, never inferred. Full launch dates were often embedded in source tables but did not extract cleanly, so the chart plots year only. Duplicate records across mirrors are kept, not merged, because they cannot be confidently matched. Coverage is incomplete relative to the source’s cited catalog of 7,353 orbital launches since 1957; this page is an index of what was extracted, not a census of spaceflight.