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How many rockets launch each year?

2025 saw 329 orbital launch attempts, the most in any year, and 318 succeeded. 2026 stands at 246 through October 16, 3 ahead of the 243 at the same point in 2025.

329

Launch attempts in 2025

318

Successful

170

By SpaceX (52%)

181

From the United States

A Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral with a plume of white smoke across the water — A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying the Crew-13 Dragon lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on October 1, 2026. Photo: NASA/Kim Shiflett.

The count has risen every year since 2019, from 102 that year to 329 in 2025. SpaceX's Falcon 9 flew 165 of the 2025 launches, and 127 of all launches that year, 39%, carried Starlink satellites.

Launches per year since 1957

Orbital launch attempts per year. 2026 (lighter bar) is partial, through October 16.

Data table

Orbital launch attempts, 2000 onward
Year	Attempts	Successful
2000	85	81
2001	59	57
2002	65	61
2003	63	61
2004	55	52
2005	56	52
2006	66	62
2007	68	65
2008	69	66
2009	78	74
2010	74	70
2011	84	78
2012	78	73
2013	81	78
2014	92	89
2015	87	82
2016	85	83
2017	90	84
2018	114	112
2019	102	97
2020	115	105
2021	146	135
2022	186	179
2023	223	211
2024	264	258
2025	329	318
2026	246	239

Where they launched from in 2025

The United States accounted for 181 launches and China for 92.Cape Canaveral led the launch sites with 82, with Vandenberg next on 64.

By country

United States181 (55.0%)
China92 (28.0%)
Russia17 (5.2%)
New Zealand17 (5.2%)
France7 (2.1%)
India5 (1.5%)
Japan4 (1.2%)
South Korea2 (0.6%)

Which rockets flew

Falcon 9165 (50.2%)
Electron18 (5.5%)
Chang Zheng 3B13 (4.0%)
Chang Zheng 6A10 (3.0%)
Chang Zheng 2D7 (2.1%)
Gushenxing 16 (1.8%)
Chang Zheng 8A6 (1.8%)
Soyuz-2-1A6 (1.8%)

Why other sites give a different total

Sources disagree on the total for 2025 because they count different things. This page counts every orbital launch attempt, successful or not, and that includes 5 Starship test flights: 329 in all. Leave the Starship flights out and the total is 324, a figure other trackers report because they exclude suborbital test flights. Count only launches that worked and it is 318 here, with 11 failures.

Sources and method

GCAT by Jonathan McDowell, CC BY 4.0. Orbital launch log updated October 17, 2026. Data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat).
Counts are one per launch, not per satellite. 2026 is partial, through October 16, 2026. Launch sites and countries use GCAT's launch and vehicle codes.