Every orbital launch attempt worldwide so far this year, whatever the outcome: who's flying, how often, and how it compares with past years.
Launches by launch provider (the company or agency that flew the rocket).
Launches by rocket configuration.
By launch-site country (ISO 3-letter code). Not provider country.
Schedules slip routinely. NETs reflect LL2’s best-current information, not commitments.
All orbital launch attempts since January 1, regardless of outcome.
Launches and Mass to orbit answer different questions. This page counts each launch equally; the mass page weighs each by payload. A single heavy lift swings mass much more than it swings this count.
See When two metrics disagree on the methodology page for the full reconciliation.
All orbital launch attempts since January 1 of the current year, regardless of outcome.
Launch Library 2 (TheSpaceDevs): /launch/previous/ for the current year and /launch/upcoming/ for the manifest, both queried with include_suborbital=false. Prior years come from my own launch record (every LL2 launch since 2016, ingested daily into Supabase), which is the same record behind /failures, so the two pages count launches identically.
Successful and failed orbital launches, including development test flights (Starship): a test flight is still a launch attempt, so it counts here even though it is left out of the failure rate and of mass to orbit.
Suborbital flights, missile tests, sounding rockets. LL2 lists suborbital hops (Blue Origin’s New Shepard, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo) beside orbital launches unless told otherwise; I filter them at the query and again when reading the record, because rows ingested before 2026-10-24 included 68 of them and had been inflating this figure and the ten-year trajectory.
Launch-site country (ISO 3-letter code from LL2’s pad metadata), i.e., where the rocket lifted off. Not the launch provider’s nationality, which can differ (e.g., Soyuz launches from French Guiana).
Annual totals on the trajectory chart cover the last 10 years, counted from my launch record with the same filters as the headline. The current year is marked as partial. A just-finished year may revise slightly for the first few weeks of January as LL2 settles status codes.
The next 10 most-imminent launches on LL2’s manifest, sorted by NET ascending. Schedules slip routinely; NETs reflect LL2’s best-current information at fetch time, not commitments.
Status codes are community-curated. The most recent launches may not be coded for several hours after liftoff.
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