Antares Ariane 5 Arianespace Atlas V Atlas V 401 Atlas V 421 Atlas V 541 China Commercial Space Communications Copernicus Cygnus Delta II Delta IV Dragon Earth Observation Electron ESA Failure Falcon 9 Featured Galileo GSAT GSLV GSLV Mk.III H-IIA Iran JAXA Kuaizhou Launch Launch Long March Long March 2c Long March 2D Long March 3B Long March 4B Long March 4C Long March 5 Long March 6 Long March 7 Mahia Meteorology Military Space Minotaur Minotaur IV NASA National Reconnaissance Office Navigation News Newsfeed NOAA Orbit Proton Reconnaissance Rocket Lab Rockot Roscosmos Russia Sentinel Simorgh Soyuz Soyuz 2-1A Soyuz 2-1B Soyuz 2-1v Soyuz FG Soyuz Rocket Soyuz U Space Situational Awareness SpaceX Technology United Launch Alliance Vega X-37B Zenit

2017 Space Launch Statistics

December 31, 2017January 1, 2018 Patrick Blau 42486 Views

The year 2017 saw a total of 90 known orbital launch attempts from seven nations and space ports in eight different countries. 2017 had the second most orbital launch attempts of any year in the current century, short of 92 launches in 2014 and showing a slight increase from 2016 that had 85 known launch attempts.