7,370 launches, verified through 30 August 2026 — the ledger stops 22 days short of today

Asked (summary):

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

The full searchable ledger holds 7,370 distinct orbital and deep-space launch attempts — successes and confirmed failures alike — from Sputnik on 4 October 1957 through 30 August 2026, each row carrying year, launch site, operating bloc and site-active status. Launch rows are single-sourced to Jonathan McDowell's GCAT; the 31 records summarized on this page are its methodology and corroborating sources, not launches. Verified row-level coverage stops on 2026-08-30 and does not literally reach today (2026-09-21).

Open the full ledger — 7,370 launches, searchable and pageable

Coverage timeline of the ledger, decade ticks 1957–2026. The thin light segment at the right is the 22-day verification gap between the last verified row (2026-08-30) and today (2026-09-21).

What the timeline cannot say alone

The ledger's own methodology reports 7,370 launches covering 1957-10-04 to 2026-08-30, from a GCAT-derived launch log accessed 2026-09-01. select.keenable.ai

A companion assembly from GCAT Release 1.8.7 (files O.tsv and F.tsv, data through 2026-08-30) counts 7,341 — a 29-launch spread that reflects differing inclusion rules, not missing history. select.keenable.ai

"Site still active" is complex-level status — at least one GCAT site phase or registered pad has an open-ended stop date — not proof the exact historical pad still flies. select.keenable.ai

Operating bloc is the launching/operating state per GCAT's LVState, not the sovereign territory of the site; air and sea launches follow GCAT's generalized launch-origin model. planet4589.org

All 31 source and methodology records

Kind	Title	Launches	Coverage	Source

Method: 31 source and methodology records over 11 hosts, describing the ledger "Every Orbital Launch, 1957–2026" (7,370 orbital and deep-space launch attempts, 1957-10-04 to 2026-08-30, single-sourced to Jonathan McDowell's GCAT, accessed 2026-09-01). Launch counts appear only on the three methodology rows; other rows corroborate access or documentation. No row-level launch data is shown here; post-August 2026 launches (live GCAT update 2026-09-21; an independent Orbital Radar catalog reports 7,412 launches as of 2026-09-20) are absent from the supplied result set. Nothing was cut; long titles are wrapped.

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