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The list for the year 2025 and for its subsequent years may contain planned launches, but the statistics will only include past launches. For the purpose of these lists, a spaceflight is defined as any flight that crosses the Kármán line , the FAI -recognized edge of space, which is 100 kilometres (62 miles) above mean sea level (AMSL) . [ 1 ]
The last orbital launch from San Marco was on 25 March 1988 by US Scout G-1 and there are no further launches scheduled. Australia with the first successful launch from Woomera Test Range of its first satellite WRESAT on 29 November 1967 by US Sparta . [ 10 ]
Launches Successes Failures Partial failures Remarks Atlas LV-3A Agena-A United States: 1: 1: 0: 0: Retired Atlas LV-3A Agena-B United States: 7: 2: 4: 1: Maiden flight Atlas LV-3B United States: 3: 2: 1: 0: First orbital launch RM-90 Blue Scout II United States: 1: 0: 1: 0: First orbital launch Juno II United States: 3: 1: 2: 0: Retired Kosmos ...
Rocket Country Launches Successes Failures Partial failures Remarks Atlas-Able United States 2: 0: 2: 0: Retired Atlas LV-3A Agena-A United States 3: 1: 2: 0: Maiden flight Juno II United States
For the purposes of this section, the yearly tally of orbital launches by country assigns each flight to the country of origin of the rocket, not to the launch services provider or the spaceport. For example, Electron rockets launched from the Māhia Peninsula in New Zealand are counted under the United States because Electron is an American ...
Launch spacecraft Habitation Return spacecraft Brief mission summary 1 Yuri Gagarin: 12 April 1961 Vostok 1: First crewed spaceflight. Reached Low Earth Orbit (LEO), flew around the Earth one time. 2 Alan Shepard (1) 5 May 1961 Mercury-Redstone 3 : First American crewed spaceflight. Did not reach Earth orbit, maximum altitude: 187 km (116 miles).
Rocket Country Launches Successes Failures Partial failures Remarks Atlas LV-3A Agena-B United States 13: 10: 3: 0: Atlas LV-3B United States 3: 3: 0: 0: Delta A United States 2: 2: 0: 0: Only flights
Date/Time (UTC) Source object Event type Pieces tracked Remarks 9 May [1]: Westford-2: Communications experiment 46 [1]: As part of an experiment to facilitate international telecommunications, the US Military deployed an artificial space ring consisting of hundreds of millions of tiny copper needles [2] which would act as antennas reflecting radio signals at the target wavelength of 8 GHz.