======================================================== ======================================================== SPACE LAUNCH REPORT UPDATE January 22, 2026 by Ed Kyle ======================================================== ======================================================== INDEX 2025 Worldwide Orbital Launch Box Score 2025 Launch Vehicle Standings3 2025 Launch Site/Country Standings 2025 Orbital Launch Log 2025 Suborbital Launch Log ======================================================== ======================================================== WORLDWIDE ORBITAL LAUNCH BOX SCORE All Orbital Launch Crewed Launch Attempts(Failures) Attempts(Failures) ------------------------------------------------------- 2026: 18(3) - 2025: 324(9) 8(0) 2024: 259(7) 9(0) 2023: 221(10) 6(0) 2022: 186(8) 7(0) 2021: 144(11) 8(0) 2020: 114(10) 4(0) 2019: 102(5) 3(0) ======================================================== ======================================================== SPACE LAUNCH REPORT YEAR TO DATE LAUNCH VEHICLE STANDINGS ======================================================== by Ed Kyle as of January 22, 2026 ======================================================== YEAR TO DATE ORBITAL LAUNCH VEHICLE SUMMARY Calendar year launch vehicle results, ranked by number of successes, with launch total as the first tiebreaker and vehicle payload mass as the second tiebreaker. Low Earth Orbit (LEO) missions have orbital periods less than 2 hours. Deep Space missions include heliocentric, planetocentric, and solar system escape trajectories. ========================================================= Vehicle Overall By Orbit Type Launches Earth-Orbit Earth-Escape (Failures) LEO >LEO Deep Space ========================================================= Falcon 9 9(0) 9(0) - - CZ (DF-5) 2(1) 1(0) 1(1) - CZ-12 1(0) 1(0) - - CZ-8A 1(0) 1(0) - - CZ-6A 1(0) 1(0) - - Ceres 1(S) 1(0) 1(0) - - Electron/Curie 1(0) 1(0) - - PSLV-DL 1(1) 1(1) - - Ceres 2 1(1) 1(1) - - R-7 - - - - CZ-7(A) - Lijian 1 - - - Atlas 5 - - Ariane 6 - - - Jielong 3 (SD-3) - - - Angara 1.2 - - Vega-C - - - H-3-22/24 - - KZ-1A (Pro) - - - New Glenn - - CZ-5(B) - - - GSLV Mk2 - - - - Vulcan - - - - Angara A5/Briz M - - - - --------------------------------------------------------- Total 18(3) 17(2) 1(1) 0(0) Antares Details ------------------------------------------------------------ Antares 230+ - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------ Ariane 6 Details ------------------------------------------------------------ Ariane 62 - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------ Atlas 5 Details ----------------------------------------------------------- Atlas 5-401 - - - - Atlas 5-411 - - - - Atlas 5-421 - - - - Atlas 5-431 - - - - Atlas 5-501 - - - - Atlas 5-511 - - - - Atlas 5-531 - - - - Atlas 5-541 - - - - Atlas 5-551 - - - - Atlas 5-N22 - - - - ----------------------------------------------------------- Chang Zheng (Long March) Details ------------------------------------------------------------ CZ-2-4 (DF-5 Based) CZ-2C(/SMA/YZ-1S) 1(0) 1(0) - - CZ-2D - - - - CZ-2D/YZ-3 - - - - CZ-2FG (M) - - - - CZ-2F/G (UM) - - - - CZ-2F/T - - - - CZ-3A - - - - CZ-3B(/E) 1(1) - 1(1) - CZ-3B/YZ-1 - - - - CZ-3C(/E) - - - - CZ-3C/YZ-1 - - - - CZ-4B - - - - CZ-4C - - - - CZ-5-8 Based CZ-5 - - - - CZ-5B/YZ-2 - - - - CZ-6 - - - - CZ-6A 1(0) 1(0) - - CZ-6C - - - - CZ-7 - - - - CZ-7A - - - - CZ-8 - - - - CZ-8A 1(0) 1(0) - - CZ-11(H) - - - - CZ-12 1(0) 1(0) - - ------------------------------------------------------------ CZ-12A - - - - Ceres 1(S)/2 ------------------------------------------------------------ Ceres 1 - - - - Ceres 1S (Yellow Sea) 1(0) 1(0) - - Ceres 2 1(1) 1(1) - - ------------------------------------------------------------ Electron Details ------------------------------------------------------------- Electron - - - - Electron/Curie 1(0) 1(0) - - Electron/Photon - - - - Electron/HASTE - suborbital ------------------------------------------------------------- Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy Details ------------------------------------------------------------ Falcon 9 v1.2 StrLk 6(0) 6(0) - - Falcon 9 v1.2 3(0) 3(0) - - Falcon 9 v1.2 Xpend - - - - Falcon 9 v1.2 Crew - - - - Falcon 9 v1.2 Cargo - - - - Falcon 9 v1.2 Cygnus - - - - Falcon Heavy - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------ H-2A/B and H-3 Details ------------------------------------------------------------- H-2A/202 - - - - H-2A/204 - - - - H-3-22S - - - - H-3-24L - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------- Proton Details ------------------------------------------------------------ Proton-M - - - - Proton-M/Briz-M - - - - Proton-K/DM-2 - - - - Proton-M/DM-03 - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------- PSLV/SSLV Details ------------------------------------------------------------ PSLV-G - - - - PSLV-CA (Core Alone) - - - - PSLV-DL 1(1) 1(1) - - PSLV-QL - - - - PSLV-XL - - - - SSLV - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------- Soyuz/Molniya (R-7) Details ------------------------------------------------------------- Soyuz-2-1a - - - - Soyuz-2-1a(Progress) - - - - Soyuz-2-1a(Soyuz)(UM) - - - - Soyuz-2-1a(Soyuz)(M) - - - - Soyuz-2-1a/Fregat - - - - Soyuz-2-1a/Volga - - - - Soyuz-2-1b - - - - Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat - - - - NK-33A Powered Soyuz 2-1v/Volga - - - - Soyuz 2-1v - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------ Vulcan Details ----------------------------------------------------------- Vulcan VC2S - - - - Vulcan VC4S - - - - ----------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================== YEAR TO DATE ORBITAL LAUNCH SITE SUMMARY Launch sites, ranked by number of year-to-date orbital launch attempts. ======================================================== Site Overall Launches (Failures) ======================================================== Cape Canaveral, Florida 5(0) Vandenberg, California 4(0) Hainan Commercial, China 2(0) Jiuquan, China 2(1) Yellow Sea Platform, China 1(0) Taiyuan, China 1(0) Mahia, New Zealand 1(0) XiChang, China 1(1) Sriharikota, India 1(1) Kennedy Space Center, FL Wenchang, China Plesetsk, Russia Kourou, French Guyana Baikonur, Kazakhstan Tanegashima, Japan Vostochny, Russia Naro Space Center, South Korea Wallops Island, Virginia Palmachim, Israel Andoya, Norway Bowen Spaceport, Australia Alcantara, Brazil Semnan, Iran Shahrud, Iran S. China Sea Platform, China Sohae, North Korea Tahara, Japan ========================================================= Launch Total by Country of First or Core Stage Manufacture ranked by number of year-to-date orbital successes. ========================================================= Vehicle Overall By Orbit Type Launches Earth-Orbit Earth-Escape (Failures) LEO >LEO Deep Space ========================================================= United States 9(0) 9(0) - - China 7(2) 7(2) - - New Zealand 1(0) 1(0) - - India 1(1) 1(1) - - Russia Europe Japan South Korea Israel Germany Australia Iran - - - - North Korea - - - - ========================================================= ================================================================== SPACE LAUNCH REPORT YEAR TO DATE ORBITAL LAUNCH LOG ================================================================== by Ed Kyle as of January 22, 2026 ================================================================== YEAR TO DATE ORBITAL SPACE LAUNCH LOG DATE VEHICLE ID PAYLOAD MASS(t) SITE ORBIT ------------------------------------------------------------------ 01/03/26 Falcon 9 v1.2 F9-584 CSG 3 2.2 VA 4E SSO 01/05/26 Falcon 9 v1.2 F9-585 Starlink 6-88 16.0 CC 40 LEO 01/09/26 Falcon 9 v1.2 F9-586 Starlink 6-96 16.0 CC 40 LEO 01/11/26 Falcon 9 v1.2 F9-587 Twilight VA 4E SSO 01/12/26 PSLV-DL C62 EOS-N1/SR-1 SR 1 [FTO] 01/12/26 Falcon 9 v1.2 F9-588 Starlink 6-97 16.0 CC 40 LEO 01/13/26 CZ-6A Y27 Yaogan 50-01 TY 9A REO 01/13/26 CZ-8A SatNEt LEO 18 WC HC1 LEO 01/14/26 Falcon 9 v1.2 F9-589 Starlink 6-98 16.0 CC 40 LEO 01/15/26 CZ-2C AlSat 3A JQ 43/94 SSO 01/15/26 Ceres 1S Y7 Tianqi 1-37-40 YS LEO 01/16/26 CZ-3B/E Shijian 32 XC 2 [FTO] 01/17/26 Ceres 2 Y1 6 sats JQ 43/95A[FTO] 01/17/26 Falcon 9 v1.2 F9-590 NROL 105 VA 4E LEO 01/18/25 Falcon 9 v1.2 F9-591 Starlink 6-100 16.0 CC 40 LEO 01/19/26 CZ-12 Y15 XD 19A-I WC HC2 LEO 01/22/26 Falcon 9 v1.2 F9-592 Starlink 17-30 16.0 VA 4E SSO 01/22/26 Electron/KS F80 OpenCosmos 1 MA 1A PEO ------------------------------------------------------------------ [PSLV-DL C62] Third stage roll rate disturbances caused loss of control at T+6m18s, 11 sec before planned end of burn. No orbit. Planned SSO. [CZ-3B/E 01/16/26] Third stage failure. [Ceres 2 Y1] First stage failure during inaugural launch of type. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ================================================================== 2025 MAJOR SUBORBITAL LAUNCH LOG Suborbital Launches Using Booster Hardware Also Used for Orbital Launches ------------------------------------------------------------------ DATE VEHICLE ID PAYLOAD SITE ORBIT ================================================================== 10/13/25 SH/SS B15S38 IFT-11 BC OLP1 SUB 10/22/25 Yars ICBM Test PL SUB 10/22/25 Sineva SLBM Test BA SUB 11/05/25 Minuteman 3 GT254 Op. Test Launch, 1RV VA 09? SUB 11/18/25 Electron/HASTE F75 VAN WI 0C SUB 11/28/25 RS-28 Sarmat? ICBM Test DO [FSO] ------------------------------------------------------------------ [SH/SS IFT 11] 2323 UTC. Successful suborbital test. Stg 1 (B15.2 on its second flight) "landed" in Gulf of Mexico as planned. 12 of 13 engines relighted for boostback burn. All 13 reignited for landing burn, which then sequenced to 5, then three engines before cutoff about 6:46 after launch. Ship performed in-space restart and dummysat deploy before "landing" on Indian Ocean. Repeated IFT 10 single engine restart in space. Last Block 2 Super Heavy and Starship flight. Last use of original Orbital Launch Pad at Boca Chica. [11/28/25] Failed shortly after silo launch, likely an RS-28 Sarmat. Flight control lost. ================================================================== *Site Code: AO = Arctic Ocean (Sub Launch), Russia AN = Andoya, Norway BA = Barents Sea (Sub Launch), Russia BS = Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii CC = Cape Canaveral, FL, USA DO = Dombarovsky, Russia EA = El Arensillo, Huelva, Spain FLP = First Launch Pad HC = Hainan Commercial JE = Jeju Island, S. Korea (Offshore Platform) JQ = Ji Quan, China KA = Kagoshima, Japan KC = Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA KO = Kourou, French Guyana KW = Kwajalein, Marshall Is. KY = Kapustin Yar, Russia MA = Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand ME = Meck Island, Kwajalein Atoll, RMI MU = Musudan-ri North Korea NA = Naro Space Center, South Korea NP = North Pole Submarine Launch OK = Sea of Okhotsk OLP = Odyssey Launch Platform PA = Palamchima, Isreal PL = Plesetsk Northern Cosmodrome, Russia PO = Pacific Ocean (154W-0N for Sea Launch) SC = South China Sea Platform SE = Semnan, Iran in Dasht-e-Kavir Desert SH = Shahrud, Iran in Central Desert SO = Sohae Satellite Launching Center, Tongchang-ri, North Korea SR = Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota, India SLP = Second Launch Pad TA = Tanageshima, Japan TB = Tyuratam/Baikonur, Kazakstahn TY = Taiyuan, China WC = Wenchang, China WH = White Sea (Sub Launch), Russia WI = Wallops Island XC = Xi Chang, China VA = Vandenberg AFB, CA, USA VO = Vostochny, Russia YL = Yellow Sea floating platform YO = Yoshinobu Launch Pad **Orbit Code: CSS = China Space Station LEO EEO = Elliptical Earth Orbit EEO/M (EEM) = Molynia (12-hr) Elliptical Earth Orbit EEO/T = Tundra (24-hr) Elliptical Earth Orbit FTO = Failed to Orbit FSO = Failed Suborbital GTO = Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit GTO+ = Supersynchronous or High Perigee Transfer Orbit GTO- = Subsynchronous Transfer Orbit GTI = Inclined GTO GEO = Geosynchronous Orbit GIO = Inclined GEO HCO = Heliocentric (solar) Orbit HTO = High Earth Transfer Orbit ISS = International Space Station LEO x 51.6 deg LEO = Low Earth Orbit LEO/E = Equatorial LEO SSO (LEO/S) = Sun Synchronous Low Earth Orbit SST = Sun Synchronous Transfer Orbit PEO (LEO/P) = Polar Low Earth Orbit REO (LEO/R) = Retrograde Low Earth Orbit MEO = Medium Earth Orbit MTO = Medium Earth Transfer Orbit PEO = Polar (also near-polar) Low Earth Orbit SUB = Suborbital ========================================================================= =========================================================================