The ledger below covers all 7,442 distinct orbital launch attempts — successes, failures and deep-space shots — recorded in the GCAT derived launch log (snapshot updated 2026-10-29), spanning every calendar year from 1957 through 2026 year-to-date, 76 historical site codes and 20 operating blocs. One launch carrying several payload records counts once. Event-level fields are single-sourced from the GCAT launch log; the other links corroborate annual coverage and site status.
| Year ▾ | Launch date | Launch ID | Launch site | Operating bloc | Still active | Source |
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Operating bloc is GCAT LVState: the state responsible for the launch vehicle and launch operation — not necessarily the payload owner or the country where the pad sits. Still active is judged at the unified site-family level: Yes when any record sharing the GCAT site code has an open stop date; No when all records carry explicit past stop dates; otherwise Unclear. This is not a claim that the exact historical pad remains operational. Repeated payload-object records were deduplicated by Launch_Tag, so one launch counts once. The ledger is single-sourced: the same GCAT launchlog.tsv backs every row; Orbital Radar and Wikipedia links corroborate annual coverage and site status only.
Method: GCAT derived orbital launch log (planet4589.org), snapshot updated 2026-10-29, researched 2026-11-01. 7,442 rows, one per distinct Launch_Tag, 1957–2026 YTD, across 76 site codes and 20 operating blocs. Each dot measures launch attempts (successes and failures) from a unified site family; table shows 100 rows at a time for speed, all rows reachable via search and “show more”. Latitude/longitude are site-family centroids, not individual pads.