481 launches are announced ahead by 37 providers across 44 rocket families. Low Earth orbit takes the largest share, and one operator accounts for roughly a third of everything announced.
Of the 481 announced launches, 9 carry a fixed date and 7 are confirmed go for launch. The rest are announced for a period: the upstream source records them on the last day of the month or the year, which is a placeholder, not a schedule. That is why this report counts intentions by orbit and by provider, and gives no month-by-month curve — such a curve would show a December spike that exists only in the data.
Counted from the launch database, not estimated. As of 2026-10-21. Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY 4.0) — download as CSV.
| Target orbit | Announced launches | Providers offering it | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low Earth Orbit · LEO | 216 | 24 | 45% |
| Sun-Synchronous Orbit · SSO | 85 | 15 | 18% |
| Polar Orbit · PO | 43 | 5 | 9% |
| Geostationary Transfer Orbit · GTO | 40 | 6 | 8% |
| Lunar Orbit · LO | 20 | 7 | 4% |
| Medium Earth Orbit · MEO | 9 | 2 | 2% |
| Suborbital · Sub | 6 | 6 | 1% |
| Geostationary Orbit · Direct-GEO | 6 | 3 | 1% |
| Heliocentric N/A · Helio-N/A | 5 | 3 | 1% |
| Mars Orbit · Mars | 3 | 2 | 1% |
| Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit · GSTO | 3 | 2 | 1% |
| Sun-Earth L2 · L2 | 2 | 1 | 0% |
| Asteroid · Asteroid | 2 | 1 | 0% |
| Heliocentric L1 · L1-point | 1 | 1 | 0% |
| Venus Orbit · Venus | 1 | 1 | 0% |
| Elliptical Orbit · Elliptical | 1 | 1 | 0% |
| Launch provider | Announced launches | Orbits served | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| SpaceX | 137 | 9 | 28% |
| United Launch Alliance | 73 | 6 | 15% |
| Rocket Lab | 63 | 3 | 13% |
| Arianespace | 51 | 10 | 11% |
| Blue Origin | 30 | 3 | 6% |
| Avio S.p.A | 23 | 2 | 5% |
| Indian Space Research Organization | 22 | 5 | 5% |
| Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | 12 | 5 | 2% |
| China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | 10 | 2 | 2% |
| Isar Aerospace | 10 | 3 | 2% |
| Firefly Aerospace | 7 | 3 | 1% |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 6 | 2 | 1% |
| Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | 5 | 3 | 1% |
| Relativity Space | 4 | 2 | 1% |
| Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | 2 | 1 | 0% |
| Payload Aerospace S.L. | 2 | 2 | 0% |
| Unknown | 2 | 1 | 0% |
| MaiaSpace | 2 | 1 | 0% |
| HyImpulse | 2 | 2 | 0% |
| Agency for Defense Development | 1 | 1 | 0% |
| European Space Agency | 1 | 1 | 0% |
| Rocket Factory Augsburg | 1 | 1 | 0% |
| Deep Blue Aerospace | 1 | 1 | 0% |
| Innospace | 1 | 1 | 0% |
| Astra Space | 1 | 1 | 0% |
Top 25 of 37 providers with announced launches. The full list is in the CSV.
The year is the one part of a placeholder date that is meaningful: a launch entered as «31 December 2027» is not scheduled for New Year’s Eve, but it is announced for 2027. Read this as a declaration of intent, not as a manifest.
| Year | Announced launches | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 121 | 25% |
| 2027 | 144 | 30% |
| 2028 | 53 | 11% |
| 2029 | 147 | 31% |
| 2030 | 5 | 1% |
| 2031 | 3 | 1% |
| 2032 | 1 | 0% |
| 2033 | 2 | 0% |
| 2035 | 2 | 0% |
| 2036 | 1 | 0% |
| 2038 | 1 | 0% |
| 2039 | 1 | 0% |
See also: the launch database itself · published launch prices · supply chain geography
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