// launch log 1957 → 2026
Every orbital launch since Sputnik
From Sputnik to last week’s Falcon 9: 7,433 launches to orbit and beyond, the rockets and spaceports behind them, 7,588 spacecraft and 709 people who left Earth. One record per launch, with its outcome.
7,433launches
93.2%succeeded
367crewed launches
709people in space
195719601970198019902000201020202026
SuccessfulFailed
// most recent
All launches in 2026Latest orbital launches
Oct 27, 2026 · 07:25 UTCStarlink Group 15-16Falcon 9VandenbergSuccessOct 25, 2026 · 02:03 UTCWHDW 28Chang Zheng 8AHainan Commercial SpaceportSuccessOct 23, 2026 · 22:48 UTCStarlink Group 15-15Falcon 9VandenbergSuccessOct 23, 2026 · 19:25 UTCYG53/YG56Chang Zheng 4BJiuquanSuccessOct 23, 2026 · 10:15 UTCYaogan 50-03Chang Zheng 6ATaiyuanSuccessOct 23, 2026 · 07:11 UTCHawk 16A/B/CElectronMahiaSuccessOct 21, 2026 · 03:39 UTCXiguang 4-01Gushenxing 1Yellow Sea (sea launch)SuccessOct 20, 2026 · 11:04 UTCBandwagon-5Falcon 9Cape Canaveral & KennedySuccess
// human spaceflight
367 crewed launches, 709 people
Since Yuri Gagarin’s Vostok in 1961. The latest crewed vehicle in the catalog is SpaceX Crew-13, launched October 1, 2026 on a Falcon 9.
// beyond Earth orbit
Deep spaceWhere the probes went
Moon214spacecraft · 162 landings & impactsMars64spacecraft · 37 landings & impactsVenus59spacecraft · 29 landings & impactsMercury4spacecraft · 1 landings & impactsJupiter11spacecraft · 2 landings & impactsSaturn5spacecraft · 2 landings & impactsSun–Earth Lagrange points30spacecraftAsteroids and comets26spacecraft · 17 landings & impacts
Jessica WatkinsUnited States
Joshua KutrykCanada
Luke DelaneyUnited States
Sergey TeteryatnikovRussia
International Space Station1998 · NASA JSC
Hubble Space Telescope1990 · GSFC
James Webb Space Telescope2021 · GSFC
Voyager 11977 · JPL
Sputnik 11957 · OKB-1
New Horizons2006 · NASA
Mir1986 · NPO Energiya