Only 300 of 7,353 archived launches reached this run — yet even that sliver shows the Soviet–US duopoly splintering into an eleven-bloc market by 1999

300 launch records from the archive's decade pages, covering seven exposed year-slices — 1958, 1959, 1969, 1979, 1989, 1999 and 2009 — across 19 launch sites and 20 operating blocs. No record after 2009 was exposed, so under the extract's 2022–2026 activity test every site reads as inactive. Units throughout: launch records in the extract.

300records exposed to this run
7,353launches in the full archive (stated)
7year-slices exposed, 1958–2009
19launch sites in the extract
20operating blocs (incl. unresolved names)
0sites with a 2022–2026 launch observed

Launch records per exposed year, stacked by operating bloc

Grey vertical strips are years the archive did not expose to this run — most of the timeline. Hover any slice for the missions and sites behind it; slices too thin for a name reveal it on hover.
Nothing in the extract dates after 2009, so none of the 19 sites — not even Cape Canaveral or Baikonur — meets the “Active” test of a 2022–2026 launch; that is a gap in the extract, not evidence of closure. orbitalradar.com
The Soviet Union alone supplies 41 of the 50 records in the 1979 slice and 36 of 50 in 1969 — the deepest single-bloc dominance anywhere in the extract. orbitalradar.com
The 1999 slice spreads its 50 records across eleven blocs — including Europe (8), China (3) and single launches attributed to SeaLaunch, AEB and OSC Chandler — versus four blocs in 1958. orbitalradar.com
Plesetsk Cosmodrome is the busiest site in the extract with 83 records, ahead of Baikonur (73) and Cape Canaveral (56); its last exposed launch, like theirs, is in 2009. orbitalradar.com

Read the status column carefully. Site status is an observational proxy: “Active” would mean the extract contains an orbital launch from that site during 2022–2026. “No orbital launch observed since 2021” — the status of every site here — is not proof that the physical facility has closed; the extract simply exposes no record after 2009.

Bloc is inferred, not authoritative. The operating bloc is derived from the listed launch operator. Operators the normalisation could not resolve keep their original names as their bloc (ABMA, MVS, NOTS, USAF SSD, 2SLS/AFSMC, ILS, SeaLaunch, AEB, OSC Chandler, SIS, SMC/RSLP, KTRAS/RVSNR) and are drawn in grey.

The extract total of 300 is not the historical global total. The archive’s stated complete count for 1957–2026 is 7,353; this page charts only the 300-record web-accessible extract.

Every launch record in the extract

DateMissionVehicleSiteOperatorBlocOutcomeSource

Method: 300 orbital-launch records scraped from orbitalradar.com decade pages (1950s–2000s), the only rows the live archive exposed to this run out of a stated 7,353 total for 1957–2026. Each chart value is the archive’s precomputed year × bloc launch count taken once per year–bloc pair, never re-summed from repeated rows; site totals and last-launch years are likewise precomputed. A count measures launch records in the extract, not launches worldwide. Cut for space: per-site totals table (the 19 site aggregates are described in the findings) and the constant extract-total column.

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