Indicator · orbital-launches-site
Orbital launches from its launch sites
Every attempt to reach orbit from a site in the country, whoever launched it.
- Unit
- launches
- Places
- 20 countries in 2025
- Built from
- Launch log
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World, 1957–2025
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Highest and lowest in 2025
| United States | 181 launches |
|---|---|
| China | 93 launches |
| New Zealand | 17 launches |
| Russia | 17 launches |
| French Guiana | 7 launches |
| United Kingdom | 0 launches |
|---|---|
| Spain | 0 launches |
| North Korea | 0 launches |
| Marshall Islands | 0 launches |
| Kiribati | 0 launches |
7 countries share this value; five are shown, alphabetically.
How it is computed
GCAT launch list, orbital and deep-space attempts by the launch site's country, from the Launch log dataset on this site. visualizedata.org computes the indicator for every place and year; the full table, the map and each place's history are on its page there. The underlying data, with its source and license, is on the dataset page, with the API and downloads.