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How many launches has SpaceX done?

SpaceX has made 728 orbital launch attempts since March 24, 2006, and 719 succeeded. 695 of them were Falcon 9. In 2025 it flew 170 launches, 52% of all launches worldwide. 2026 stands at 120 through October 16, 15 behind the 135 at the same point in 2025.

728

Launch attempts in total

719

Successful

695

Falcon 9 launches

170

Launches in 2025

A Falcon Heavy rocket lifting off from a Florida launch pad with a large plume of smoke — A SpaceX Falcon Heavy begins its demonstration flight from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on February 6, 2018. Photo: NASA/Kim Shiflett.

Launches per year

SpaceX launch attempts each year. 2026 is partial, through October 16.

Data table

SpaceX launches by year
Year	Attempts	Successful	Starlink launches
2006	1	0	0
2007	1	0	0
2008	2	1	0
2009	1	1	0
2010	2	2	0
2011	0	0	0
2012	2	2	0
2013	3	3	0
2014	6	6	0
2015	7	6	0
2016	8	8	0
2017	18	18	0
2018	21	21	0
2019	13	13	2
2020	25	25	14
2021	31	31	19
2022	61	61	34
2023	98	96	63
2024	138	137	90
2025	170	168	127
2026	120	120	85

Which rockets

Falcon 9695 (95.5%)
Falcon Heavy14 (1.9%)
Starship14 (1.9%)
Falcon 15 (0.7%)

Starship flights are counted here because GCAT counts them as launch attempts. They are test flights that do not all reach orbit.

Where they launch from

Cape Canaveral347 (47.7%)
Vandenberg219 (30.1%)
Kennedy Space Center127 (17.4%)
Vandenberg16 (2.2%)
Starbase14 (1.9%)

127 of SpaceX's 2025 launches carried Starlink satellites, 75% of its flights that year.

Sources and method

GCAT by Jonathan McDowell, CC BY 4.0. Updated October 17, 2026. Data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat).
A SpaceX launch is a launch in the GCAT orbital launch log whose agency is SpaceX. Landings and booster reuse are not in this catalogue.