The reader asked: 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 holds 3,597 distinct launch attempts from Jonathan McDowell's GCAT launch log (snapshot updated 2026-08-28); the supplied rows are dated 1957–1990, one row per Launch_Tag, successes and failures alike.
Definitions. An orbital launch is one distinct orbital or deep-space launch attempt (one GCAT Launch_Tag); multiple payload objects on a single launch are deduplicated to one row. Operating bloc is a grouping of GCAT's launch-vehicle state — not necessarily the territory of the pad: SU → Soviet bloc (USSR); US → United States; European and ESA codes → Europe / ESA; others keep national groupings. Still active is judged at the canonical-site level from the current GCAT sites table: renamed families such as Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg count as active when a current continuation exists. Seven rows are lunar-surface departures (Apollo and Luna ascents) and plot at their lunar coordinates' Earth equivalents.
| Year | Launch date | Launch ID · mission | Launch site (pad) | Operating bloc | Still active | Source |
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Data: Jonathan McDowell's GCAT machine-readable launch log (derived launchlog.tsv), snapshot updated 2026-08-28. 3,597 distinct Launch_Tag rows after deduplicating payload entries; supplied rows span 1957–1990. Counts include successful and failed orbital and deep-space attempts plus 7 lunar-surface ascents. "Still active" reflects the current GCAT sites table at the canonical-site level; 19 rows are from closed sites. Agency and raw state codes were cut from the table for space; the source file carries them.