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SpaceX

Independent launch provider
CommercialHeavy-liftSuper-heavy

World's highest-cadence launch provider; Falcon 9 booster reuse reset launch economics.

Curated info last reviewed October 24, 2026The hand-curated fields on this page (ownership, rocket specs, list prices and the customer list) were last fact-checked against public sources on October 24, 2026. Anything that changed since may not be reflected yet.·Live figures updated just now
Independent, not affiliated with the company profiled.ⓘFigures are derived from public third-party catalogs (CelesTrak, GCAT, Launch Library 2) and may be incomplete or lag reality. Computed KPIs are Open Orbit's own analysis. Spotted an error? Use the feedback button.
Launches YTD
120
1st-busiest globally YTD
Global launch share
48.0%
of 250 worldwide 2026 YTD
Success rate
100%
24 mo · 317 launches
Mass to orbit
2.0k t
2026 YTD · 81.3% of global
This year
Launch Library 2 · historical launch record · GCAT
Launches120
Share of global launches48.0%
Mass to orbitTotal orbital payload mass delivered this year, from GCAT.2.0k t
Share of global mass81.3%
Success rate (24 mo)Share of launch attempts that succeeded over the trailing 24 months, from our launch record (1 minus the failure rate). N shown for sample size; test-campaign flights are separated from operational reliability per our editorial rule.100% · 317
Scheduled aheadLaunches on the near-term Launch Library 2 manifest. NETs (“no earlier than”) slip routinely.4
Rockets in fleet
curated · GCAT
Falcon 9 (SpaceX)
Operational
Heavy-liftPartial reuseReaches LEOLow Earth orbit (up to ~2,000 km): Starlink, imaging satellites, the ISS. · MEOMedium Earth orbit (~2,000–35,000 km): navigation systems like GPS and Galileo. · GEOGeostationary orbit (~35,786 km): comms satellites that hover over one spot. · BeyondBeyond GEO: lunar, interplanetary or escape trajectories.
Payload → LEO
22,800 kg
List priceThe published sticker price for a launch, not a transacted price, which varies by mission, orbit and contract.
$74M
$ / kg
$3,246/kg
Falcon Heavy (SpaceX)
Operational
Super-heavyPartial reuseReaches LEOLow Earth orbit (up to ~2,000 km): Starlink, imaging satellites, the ISS. · MEOMedium Earth orbit (~2,000–35,000 km): navigation systems like GPS and Galileo. · GEOGeostationary orbit (~35,786 km): comms satellites that hover over one spot. · BeyondBeyond GEO: lunar, interplanetary or escape trajectories.
Payload → LEO
63,800 kg
List priceThe published sticker price for a launch, not a transacted price, which varies by mission, orbit and contract.
$97M
$ / kg
$1,520/kg
Starship (SpaceX)
Test campaign
Super-heavyFully reusableReaches LEOLow Earth orbit (up to ~2,000 km): Starlink, imaging satellites, the ISS.
Payload → LEO
100,000 kg*A credible published estimate, not an official specification or a demonstrated figure.
List priceThe published sticker price for a launch, not a transacted price, which varies by mission, orbit and contract.
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$ / kg
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Latest launches
Launch Library 2 · failures record
  • Starlink Group 15-15
    Oct 23 · Falcon 9 · Space Launch Complex 4E (USA)
    Success
  • Bandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
    Oct 20 · Falcon 9 · Space Launch Complex 40 (USA)
    Success
  • USSF-481
    Oct 16 · Falcon 9 · Space Launch Complex 4E (USA)
    Success
  • Dragon CRS-2 SpX-35
    Oct 13 · Falcon 9 · Space Launch Complex 40 (USA)
    Success
  • Starlink Group 15-25
    Oct 13 · Falcon 9 · Space Launch Complex 4E (USA)
    Success
By launch site
GCAT · last 12 months · 153 launches
Vandenberg · United States7851%
Cape Canaveral · United States6341%
Kennedy Space Center · United States96%
Starbase · United States32%

Upcoming launches

Launch Library 2 · best-effort

Near-term manifest from LL2. NET = “no earlier than”; dates slip routinely.

  • Starlink Group 15-16NET
    Oct 27 · Falcon 9 · Space Launch Complex 4E (USA)
    Scheduled
  • Starlink Group 15-18NET
    Oct 30 · Falcon 9 · Space Launch Complex 4E (USA)
    Scheduled
  • Starlink Group 15-21NET
    Nov 5 · Falcon 9 · Space Launch Complex 4E (USA)
    Scheduled
oo insights analysisBeta

Launch cadence

Computed by oo insights · from launch record

Orbital launches per quarter, with failed attempts highlighted. A shrinking interval between launches signals a provider scaling; a widening one flags bottlenecks. Method →

2.4 daysaverage between launches, last 12 months, up from ~2.1 days a year ago (cadence slowing)
02346Q1 '24Q2 '24Q3 '24Q4 '24Q1 '25Q2 '25Q3 '25Q4 '25Q1 '26Q2 '26Q3 '26Q4 '26 so far
Successful launchesFailuresCurrent quarter so far

Launches by customer

Computed by oo insights · from GCAT

Share of the satellites this provider has launched, by operator, the reciprocal of an operator's launches-by-rocket. Each links to its constellation profile. 62 tracked operators in all.ⓘBest-effort. Counts only satellite operators in the oo insights catalogue. Rideshare smallsats, one-off, university and government payloads aren't tracked, so this is a floor, not the full customer list. “Exclusive” means an operating company that has only flown with this provider across our launch record (2014 on); a flight on a provider we don't track, or one before 2014, wouldn't show. Operators that haven't started flying an operational fleet yet are left out, since a demonstrator flight isn't a customer.

Starlink87.8% · 12,943 sats
USA series2.5% · 374 sats
Planet2.2% · 320 sats
Eutelsat1.1% · 162 sats
Spire0.8% · 116 sats
SDA0.7% · 105 sats
Other operators4.9% · 724 sats

Exclusive customers

Computed by oo insights · from GCAT

Tracked operators whose entire catalogued flight history is with SpaceX: a read on captive demand, separate from operators that split launches across providers.ⓘBest-effort. Counts only satellite operators in the oo insights catalogue. Rideshare smallsats, one-off, university and government payloads aren't tracked, so this is a floor, not the full customer list. “Exclusive” means an operating company that has only flown with this provider across our launch record (2014 on); a flight on a provider we don't track, or one before 2014, wouldn't show. Operators that haven't started flying an operational fleet yet are left out, since a demonstrator flight isn't a customer. Method →

19of 62 tracked operators fly only with SpaceX
  • Starlinkin-house
  • Iridium
  • IRIDE
  • Plan-S
  • Orbcomm
  • Tomorrow.io
  • Skykraft
  • Loft Orbital
  • Umbra
  • AAC Clyde Space
  • Lynk
  • Globalstar
  • Firefly
  • Starfish Space
  • SiriusXM
  • Thaicom
  • Ovzon
  • Spacecom
  • Nilesat

How I count this

A directory of the companies and agencies flying rockets to orbit (one row each, click to expand to the rockets in their fleet), joining a hand-curated catalog of providers and rockets to live launch counts, success rates, mass to orbit and cargo economics. Launch providers fly the rockets, distinct from satellite operators, who run the fleets in orbit.

  • Definition▾

    Each row is one launch provider; expanding it shows the rockets in its fleet. I curate the provider’s identity (name, parent company, country, ownership) and each rocket’s specs (lift class, reusability, status, orbit reach, payload to LEO, published list price), then join at request time to live launch activity.

  • Source: launches▾

    Launch Library 2 (TheSpaceDevs), /launch/previous/ for the current year, the same fetch the homepage and /launches use, so the totals reconcile. Launches YTD is a provider’s share of that count; share of global launches is the provider’s count ÷ all orbital launches this year.

  • Source: success rate▾

    My historical launch record (Launch Library 2, backfilled into Supabase); the same data behind /failures. Success rate is 1 − the failure rate over the trailing 24 months. Providers with fewer than 5 launches in the window are flagged as a small sample (asterisk), because a single failure would otherwise swing the rate wildly. Development test campaigns are excluded here too, inheriting the same named list /failures uses: SpaceX’s rate reflects its operational fleet and leaves Starship’s test flights out of both the numerator and the denominator.

  • Source: mass to orbit▾

    Jonathan McDowell’s GCAT (launch.tsv), the same dataset behind /mass-to-orbit. Mass YTD is the payload mass a provider has delivered to orbit this year; share of global mass is that ÷ the year’s total.

  • Source: catalog▾

    Provider identity, ownership, one-line context, notable customers and every rocket’s specs are hand-curated in src/lib/launcher-catalog.ts. Western vehicles cite manufacturer spec pages; non-Western and commercial figures are often public estimates with no official spec sheet; those are flagged with an asterisk pending a source-by-source verification pass.

  • List price per kg▾

    Sticker price at full capacity, a rocket’s published list price ÷ its advertised maximum LEO payload. This is NOT what any single customer pays: real missions rarely fill the rocket to its LEO maximum, and rideshare or marginal pricing differs. A row shows its cheapest rocket’s figure. Coverage is partial by design; most state providers don’t publish a price, so their $/kg reads ‘not published’ rather than a guess.

  • Orbit reach▾

    Each rocket is tagged with the orbit regimes it can deliver to: LEO, MEO, GEO, or Beyond (lunar / interplanetary / escape), from demonstrated capability, or design intent for in-development vehicles. Curated.

  • All orbits vs LEO▾

    Read the denominators carefully. Launches, share of launches, success rate and mass to orbit count ALL orbits, a GEO comsat or an interplanetary probe counts the same as a LEO Starlink batch. $/kg and payload-to-LEO are LEO-specific, because LEO is the standard reference orbit for comparing capability and cost. So a row’s all-orbit ‘Mass’ and its LEO-only ‘$/kg’ are not the same denominator; the orbit-reach tags on each rocket show where it actually flies.

  • Provider attribution▾

    Launch data arrives keyed by provider, but the three sources name the same provider differently, so I normalize each to one catalog key. The biggest correction is CASC: GCAT splits China’s Long March family across its academies and subsidiaries (CALT, SAST, CGWIC, Changzheng, China Rocket Co.), which I fold back into CASC so its launch and mass totals aren’t undercounted; the launch-provider analog of the Guowang attribution on /constellations. Roscosmos similarly absorbs its VKS, Khrunichev and RKK Energiya designations; JAXA folds in Mitsubishi Heavy (the H3 operator); ISRO folds in its commercial arm NSIL.

  • Coverage▾

    The catalog covers every provider that has reached orbit since 2023 (a provider with failures only, such as Space One, stays on the watchlist until it succeeds); the page shows the live share of this year’s launches it covers. Launches by an uncatalogued provider show in the page’s ‘Not yet catalogued’ row so the coverage figure stays honest.

  • Notable customers▾

    A curated, marquee list per provider, cross-linked to /constellations where the customer is a satellite operator I track. It’s editorial, not a complete manifest; a live ‘top customers this year’ derivation is planned but not yet wired.

  • Filtering & sorting▾

    Filters apply in the browser over the loaded rows (no refetch) and are encoded in the URL so a filtered view is shareable. Lift class, reusability and rocket status match a provider when ANY of its rockets qualifies; ownership and region are provider-level. Region is derived from the provider’s country: US, China, EU/ESA (the 22 ESA member states) or Other (everything else, including Russia). Within a category, selections are OR; across categories, AND.

  • Limitations▾

    Many payload and price figures are public estimates, not official specs (flagged with an asterisk). List price ÷ max-LEO is a capability-normalized sticker price, not a transaction price. Lift class is curated from demonstrated payload and can sit on a boundary. Success rate uses a rolling 24-month window, so it diverges from program-lifetime figures elsewhere. The scheduled-ahead count is best-effort from LL2’s near-term manifest, not a full backlog. Values are computed live at fetch time; the directory doesn’t yet show captured history.

  • License▾

    Launch Library 2 (TheSpaceDevs): attribution required. GCAT: Creative Commons CC-BY (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat). Rocket specs, list prices and customer lists are curated and attributed per claim to their original source.

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Launch counts, recent & upcoming from Launch Library 2. 24-month success rate from our historical launch record. Mass from GCAT (J. McDowell), CC-BY. Rockets, specs, list prices, customers and ownership hand-curated.