Half the record is Soviet: 2,908 of 4,900 recovered orbital launches flew under the Soviet or Russian flag

Partial: 4,900 of 7,620 records recovered

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 live Launch Library 2 endpoint reports 7,620 launch records dated 1957-01-01 through 2026-09-17. This collection recovered 4,900 of them (64.3%); 2,720 records are missing because 27 paginated API requests failed, and the recovered rows span 1957–2013. The report presents all 4,900 recovered launches across 31 sites and 60 operators; it is single-sourced from Launch Library 2, except the three 1957 launches, which Orbital Radar independently corroborates. Site activity below is a mechanical proxy computed inside this incomplete subset, not a definitive status.

Launch sites, sized by recovered launches, coloured by dominant operating bloc

Circle area = launches recovered at that site, 1957–2013. Hover or tap a site for its count, dominant bloc, bloc mix and latest launch in the recovered data. Because later API pages are missing, no site registers a launch in the latest three years of this subset, so the activity proxy reads “No” for every site.

Launches per year by operating bloc

Stacked yearly counts of the 4,900 recovered launches. Operating bloc is a broad semantic grouping from operator identity and site country, not a formal geopolitical taxonomy.

Plesetsk Cosmodrome alone accounts for 1,548 recovered launches — more than any other site — with Baikonur second at 1,270; together the two Soviet-era cosmodromes hold 58% of the recovered record. ll.thespacedevs.com

The busiest recovered year is 1967 with 146 launches; the single largest bloc-year is the Soviet programme’s 108 launches in 1982. ll.thespacedevs.com

Outcomes are recorded for every row: 4,487 successes, 399 failures and 14 partial failures — a 91.6% success rate across the recovered subset. ll.thespacedevs.com

The series opens with Sputnik 1 (4 Oct 1957), Sputnik 2 and the Vanguard failure; Orbital Radar’s independent 1957 listing matches all three records. orbitalradar.com

All 4,900 recovered launches

Year	Launch site	Operating bloc	Active-site proxy (in recovered data)	Latest launch at site (in data)	Date (UTC)	Mission	Operator	Outcome	Source

Method: 4,900 orbital launch records recovered from the Launch Library 2 API (ll.thespacedevs.com), retrieved from a live endpoint reporting a universe of 7,620 launches dated 1957-01-01 to 2026-09-17; 2,720 records were lost to 27 failed paginated requests, so the recovered rows end in 2013 and the collection is partial. Each row carries its own per-launch source link. “Active-site proxy” only marks whether a site launched within the latest three years present in this recovered subset — a mechanical proxy that yields false “No” values where later pages are missing; a definitive site-status audit remains to be completed. Operating bloc is a broad semantic grouping from operator and site country. Orbital Radar corroborates the three 1957 launches; the rest is single-sourced. Timestamps trimmed to dates in the table for space.

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