The full orbital launch catalog is one blocked download away: GCAT's 8.8 MiB log could not be fetched
Scan of 2026-08-29 across 18 GCAT and LVDB pages on planet4589.org. GCAT release 1.8.5, updated August 2026, states it covers all successful orbital launches and all confirmed failed orbital attempts from 1957 onward — the requested row-level catalog (year, site, bloc, site status) is fully derivable from it, but was not materialized in this run and no launch total is claimed here.
verified and readable
identified but fetch rejected
definition the analyst must fix
pending output
What the pipeline cannot say alone
GCAT 1.8.5 (August 2026) declares complete coverage of orbital launches and confirmed failed attempts, and marks orbital records with launch category O — so filtering LaunchCode LIKE 'O%' is sound, not a heuristic.
planet4589.orgKSLV2's Nuri rows prove the record shape end to end — Launch_Tag, date, site NARO, pad LC2, agency KARI, codes OF/OS — while BLDT's non-orbital rows prove the O filter is mandatory.
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planet4589.org"Still active" is answerable from temporal phases — a null TStop means still operating or assumed operating — but one physical site can hold several name or code phases, so status must be judged per physical site, not per code.
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planet4589.org"Operating bloc" is not a GCAT field: define an explicit, reproducible mapping from launch agency and its parent state at launch time (the Orgs table carries country, class and dates) instead of inventing blocs.
planet4589.orgWhat remains for the full export
- Download and parse planet4589.org — the 8.8 MiB comprehensive launch log — outside the size-limited web interface.
- Filter to orbital records: LaunchCode LIKE 'O%'.
- Join Launch_Site and Launch_Pad to the Sites and LP temporal-phase tables; resolve ship, submarine, aircraft and land-mobile launches through Platforms.
- Join Launch_Agency to Orgs for operator and parent country at launch time.
- Define the bloc taxonomy as an explicit agency/state mapping and document it.
- Evaluate site activity as of 2026-08-29 from current temporal phases, treating null TStop as still or assumed operating, merged across phases of the same physical site.
Everything verified in this run
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Method: web-source verification scan on 2026-08-29 of GCAT release 1.8.5 and LVDB documentation on planet4589.org; 18 evidence rows (6 documentation findings, 3 source assets, 9 launch-family pages). The diagram shows extraction steps, not launch counts; no launch totals are presented because the comprehensive 8.8 MiB launch log was identified but its fetch was rejected as oversized. Seven launch-family pages seen only in passing are listed in the table without further analysis.