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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 ]
Launch site to be used for suborbital and polar low-Earth orbital launch on the east coast by companies BluShift Aerospace and VALT Enterprises [73] [74] and funded by Maine Space Grant Consortium. Additional rocket launch sites in North America
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 ...
SpaceX aiming for record-breaking 2025. 09:44, Anthony Cuthbertson. While this will be the first Starship flight test of 2025, today’s launch will be the eighth orbital launch for SpaceX so far ...
Hiten probe, this was the first non-United States or USSR probe to reach the Moon US/ Europe: Hubble Space Telescope: Earth: Success: Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope Pakistan: Badr-1: Earth: Success: Launch of Badr-1 Pakistan 1st communication satellite Germany: ROSAT: Earth: Success
China LandSpace became a private company with orbital launch capability by successfully launched Zhuque-2, world's first methane-fueled rocket to reach orbit, on July 12, 2023. [ 26 ] China Orienspace was the fifth private company in China to reach orbit after the successful maiden launch of Gravity-1 on January 11, 2024.
This article lists orbital and suborbital launches during the first half of the year 2024. For all other spaceflight activities, see 2024 in spaceflight . For launches in the second half of 2024, see List of spaceflight launches in July–December 2024 .
2024 saw new world records for orbital launch attempts and successful orbital launches for the fourth consecutive year. Notable milestones included the successful maiden launches of the American Vulcan Centaur and China's Gravity-1, and Long March 12 rockets.