3,394 extracted orbital launch attempts across 70 years — but 66 of those years are capped at 50 rows, so this is a coverage view, not a census
Asked:
“Every orbital launch from 1957 to today — for each one list the year, the launch site, the operating bloc and whether the site is still active.”
The rows cover 3,394 of the 7,416 orbital launches the source database reports since 1957 — 45.8% — across all 70 calendar years, 1957 through 2026, and 58 named launch sites, with current-year rows reaching 2026-09-20. Individual launch rows are single-sourced from Orbital Radar annual pages.
Read this first. Each annual source page exposed at most 50 launches, so 66 of 70 years are truncated at exactly 50 rows and 4,022 launches are missing, mostly from high-volume years. The requested historical operating bloc resolved for only 6 of 3,394 rows; unresolved cells are left blank, not backfilled. “Site still active” is a proxy: Yes means this extraction records an orbital launch from the same site name on or after 2024-01-01 — it is not an official facility status.
Extracted launch attempts per year. Orange bars sit at the 50-row page ceiling and are truncated by the source page limit — true annual totals there are higher. Only 1957 (3), 1959 (25), 1958 (28) and 1960 (38) are plausibly complete.
Baikonur Cosmodrome leads the extraction with 794 launches, ahead of Plesetsk (743) and Cape Canaveral (451); together the top three sites hold 59% of extracted rows. orbitalradar.com
3,203 of 3,394 extracted launches (94%) flew from a site with a recorded orbital launch since 2024-01-01; 191 rows, from sites like China Lake (last recorded 1958-08-28), have no recent launch recorded. orbitalradar.com
Outcomes in the extraction: 3,127 successes, 264 failures and 3 unknown — a 92.1% success share, skewed by truncation toward early-era rows. orbitalradar.com
Operating bloc resolved for just 6 rows (all “United States”); 3,388 rows remain blank, so the bloc column answers the question only in fragments. planet4589.org
All 3,394 extracted launches
Date ▾
Mission
Site
Operator
Bloc
Site active (proxy)
Latest launch at site
Outcome
Source
Launch details are single-sourced from Orbital Radar annual launch-index pages (which cite GCAT / Jonathan McDowell and Launch Library 2 as underlying sources), observed October 2026 with annual pages updated late August to late September 2026; a GCAT launch-log methodology link accompanies every row but is not row-by-row verification. 3,394 of 7,416 database launches extracted (45.8%); annual pages exposed at most 50 rows, so 66 of 70 years are truncated; largest single annual page share 1.47% of rows; current-year rows reach 2026-09-20. Each count is one orbital launch attempt. “Site still active” means a recorded orbital launch at the same normalized site name on or after 2024-01-01. Operating bloc shown only where resolved (6 rows); table shows 25 rows per page increment.