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.
This register lists all 7,405 distinct orbital, deep-space and non-Earth launch attempts recorded in the GCAT snapshot of 24 September 2026 — every record matching that definition, from Sputnik on 4 October 1957 through the cutoff, successes and failures alike. The register is single-sourced at row level from one GCAT file; an independent Orbital Radar cross-check counts 7,412 under a similar but not identical definition, a net difference of seven. Rows span 62 displayed site names and 20 operating blocs; 7,372 launches came from site families active today, 32 from inactive sites, and one has unresolved status.
62 site names across 68 recorded coordinate or alias variants, circle area = launches; 11 lunar-surface departure points are plotted on the inset, not the Earth map. Hover a circle for details.
Attempts per year. 2026 covers only through 24 September.
Four families dominate the whole record: Plesetsk (1,684), Baykonur (1,558), Canaveral (1,103) and Vandenberg (888 across two coordinate variants) account for over two-thirds of all attempts. planet4589.org
The cadence has accelerated sharply since 2021: 146, 186, 221, 263, then a record 329 in 2025, with 232 already logged in 2026 by 24 September. planet4589.org
"Operating bloc" is the launch vehicle's state, not the pad's territory: USA (2,466) and USSR (2,452) lead, then Russia (898), China (806) and France (354), across 20 blocs in all. planet4589.org
Orbital Radar's independent log reports 7,412 orbital launches under its own definition — seven more net than this register's 7,405 — so the two sources agree closely but not exactly. orbitalradar.com
All 7,405 rows — search, filter and sort; every row links its source. Status is the site family's current activity: Active / Inactive / Unknown.
| Year | Date | Launch ID | Mission | Vehicle | Site | Pad | Bloc | Site status | Source |
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Method: GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org) derived launch log, snapshot updated 2026-09-24; 7,405 rows after deduplicating repeated payload-object records by Launch_Tag. One row is one launch attempt of category O (orbital), D (deep-space) or X (departure from a world other than Earth, including 11 lunar-surface departures), success or failure. Operating bloc is GCAT's launch-vehicle state under its current name; "still active" is judged at the canonical site-family level, so renamed continuations such as Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg count as active. Site aggregate keeps 68 coordinate/alias variants for 62 displayed names. No launches after the 2026-09-24 cutoff are claimed. Cross-check: Orbital Radar reports 7,412 launches under its similar definition. Table columns pruned to fit width; latitude/longitude shown only on the map.