Seven decades, 7,429 orbital launch attempts — and nearly all flew from sites still active today

The ledger below holds all 7,429 of 7,429 distinct orbital and deep-space launch attempts in the GCAT snapshot of 2026-10-12 — successes, failures and partials, one row per launch tag, spanning all 70 years from 1957 through 2026 (year-to-date), 64 site labels and 20 operating blocs. The exact event ledger is single-sourced from Jonathan McDowell’s GCAT; Orbital Radar serves only as an archive-level cross-check. 7,396 launches flew from sites classed active today, 31 from inactive sites, 2 are unclear.

Method: 7,429 distinct orbital and deep-space launch attempts (one row per GCAT Launch_Tag, successes, failures and partials included), 1957 through 2026 year-to-date, from Jonathan McDowell’s GCAT derived launch log, snapshot dated 2026-10-12, researched 2026-10-13. “Operating bloc” is the GCAT LVState of the launch agency expanded to its full historical name; “still active” follows the GCAT unified site registry (open-ended stop date or an orbital launch in 2024–2026 = Yes). Counts are launch attempts, not successes. Orbital Radar is an archive-level cross-check only and itself draws partly on GCAT. The ledger table paginates at 50 rows; all rows are searchable and downloadable. Lunar launch locations are excluded from the Earth map but kept in tables and totals.