Seven decades of orbital flight now total 7,377 confirmed launches — 33 of them added since early September 2026

Asked:

“Every orbital launch from 1957 to today — for each one list the year, the launch site, the operating bloc and whether the site is still active.”

The strict confirmed-orbital record — one row per successful orbital launch or confirmed failed orbital attempt in GCAT’s O and F lists — holds 7,377 launches from Sputnik on 1957-10-04 through 2026-10-16, the latest launch found by a web check on 2026-10-22. It combines the 7,344-row historical report (through 2026-09-03) with the 33 launches below (2026-09-05 to 2026-10-16); 2026 is a partial year with 241 launches so far. The historical launch-by-launch detail is single-sourced to Jonathan McDowell’s GCAT.

The complete launch-by-launch history lives in the interactive historical table: staging-webql.keenable.ai — Every Confirmed Orbital Launch, 1957–2026 (7,344 rows). That table plus the 33-row update below equals the complete 7,377-row answer through the latest launch found. The update table alone is not the full history.

The 70-year record, and the five weeks it just gained

Top band: the full 1957–2026 span of the 7,377-launch record. Bottom band: the 33 update launches, 2026-09-05 to 2026-10-16, one dot per launch, coloured by operating bloc. Hover or tap a dot for mission, site and operator.

SpaceX alone flew 14 of the 33 update launches, all from US sites — Vandenberg, Cape Canaveral, Kennedy and Starbase. orbitalradar.com

China is the second bloc of the update with 11 launches across six operators, from Jiuquan, Taiyuan, Hainan and an east-coast sea platform. orbitalradar.com

All 33 update launches succeeded, and every one of the 14 sites used is still active — each hosted a launch inside the update window itself. orbitalradar.com

The historical baseline of 7,344 launches through 2026-09-03 is single-sourced to GCAT, which publishes the strict O and F orbital lists. planet4589.org

The 33-launch update, 2026-09-05 to 2026-10-16

These rows extend the 7,344-row historical table to 7,377. Still active = Yes for all 33 because each site hosted a launch during the update period.

Year	Date	Launch site	Operating bloc	Still active	Launch ID	Mission	Operator	Outcome	Source

Method: 33 update rows, one per confirmed orbital launch, 2026-09-05 to 2026-10-16, from Orbital Radar’s 2026 launch database (itself GCAT-derived and enriched with Launch Library 2), checked 2026-10-22; added to the 7,344-row historical report (GCAT O and F lists through 2026-09-03, single-sourced to Jonathan McDowell’s GCAT, corroborated by Orbital Radar) for a 7,377-launch total. Operating bloc is the state or intergovernmental body of the launch agency at launch time, not payload ownership. “Still active” is current site-level status over normalized site phases. GCAT’s U list of marginal orbital-energy tests is excluded; 2026 is partial (241 launches). The update rows carry no coordinates, so no map is drawn. Historical per-launch fields were cut here for space — see the linked historical table.

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