“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 catalog below covers every recorded orbital launch attempt — successes and confirmed failures — from the first three in 1957 through 231 in 2026, with a cutoff of 2026 Sep 24 UTC: 7,183 attempts in all, across 48 normalized launch sites and 43 historical operating states and blocs. The launch-level facts are single-sourced from Jonathan McDowell’s GCAT, corroborated at yearly level by Orbital Radar.
| Launch ID | Date (UTC) | Year | Site | Operating bloc | Site active | Vehicle | Source |
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Method: 7,183 orbital launch attempts (GCAT LaunchCode beginning O — successful and confirmed failed attempts; suborbital, missile and deep-space-only categories excluded), 1957 through 2026-09-24 UTC, from Jonathan McDowell’s GCAT launch list, corroborated per year against Orbital Radar (which itself builds on GCAT, so not a fully independent catalog). Site names normalized to current canonical facilities (e.g. all Cape Canaveral eras merged); “operating bloc” is the historical state/bloc of the launch-service organization, not the payload owner. “Site active” is Yes for an open-ended GCAT site status, No for a closed stop date, blank when unresolved (one 2021 record). Dates are UTC at first motion. Agency codes, outcome codes and site coordinates were cut from the table for space; they inform the map and counts.