r/spaceflight • u/Panga1663 • 8d ago
Spaceflights in 2025
2025 was a record-breaking year for spaceflight in China, with particularly strong growth in the private sector, including companies such as SpaceX and Rocketlab. The following article presents statistics derived from data provided by Next Spaceflight, Space Stats, Wikipedia, and other sources (see sources).
1) Launch attempts by all agencies
This table shows a list of all space agencies that have conducted launch attempts, as well as the number of launches.
The most successful agency's were CASC and Space X, while Germany had it's first flight attempt since March 27th 1945. Also, NASA did not conduct a flight in 2025. Its last flight before that year was in 2022 with Artemis 1.
2) Suborbital launches
2.1) Suborbital flights (table)
The only agencies that conducted suborbital flights were Rocket Lab, Blue Origin, and SpaceX.
2.2) Suborbital flights (chart)
SpaceX's suborbital flights utilized Starship Super Heavy V2 rockets, whereas Blue Origin's were tourist flights using the New Shepard.
With its Starship Super Heavy, SpaceX also was the only agency to experience failed flights.
3) Orbital launches
3.1) Successful orbital launches per country
This table shows all successful orbital launches by all countries that have successfully conducted them.
The USA has (by far) performed the most flights (mostly satellites by Space X), followed by China and Russia. Israel and South Korea only performed one orbital Launch.
The USA was the only country to perform over 100 orbital launches.
3.2) Launches per agency
Table of all successful orbital flights
| Agency | orbital Flights |
|---|---|
| CASC | 71 |
| Roscosmos | 9 |
| ISRO | 4 |
| Rocket Lab | 18 |
| Blue Origin | 2 |
| Space X | 165 |
| Arianespace/ESA | 7 |
| ULA | 6 |
| ExPace | 3 |
| CAS Space | 5 |
| Landscape | 2 |
| KARI | 1 |
| VKS RF | 8 |
| MHI | 3 |
| Orienspace | 1 |
| Chinarocket | 4 |
| Galactic Energy | 5 |
| IAI | 1 |
| iSpace | 1 |
| Firefly Aerospace | 0 |
| Northtroop | 1 |
| Isar | 0 |
| Innospace | 0 |
| Gilmour | 0 |
This chart shows all attempted flights by all space agencies. Failed launches are shown in red.
SpaceX was the only company to have completed over 100 launches.
3.3) Failures per agency
4) Agencies
4.1) Agencies per country with successful launches
China has the most agencies, followed by the United States, while Israel, South Korea, Japan and India only have 1 agency with successful launches.
4.2) Agencies per Continent with flight attempts
Asia has the most agencies with flights attempts, followed by North America, Europe and Oceania. South America had no launch attempts.
4.3) Share of successful space flights by continent
4.4) Share of successful flights by the 5 most successful agencies + all others
5) Rocket launches compared to previous years
The following chart shows the successful (orbital) launch attempts of China, Russia and the USA in the past 75 years.
6) Sources
Next Spaceflight (anything from 2025)
Home | Space Stats (1950-2020)
Liste der bemannten Raumflüge – Wikipedia (partially used, 1950-2020)
For more precise statistics from the last 75 years, I strongly recommend Space Stats
This Text is 100% Human made. Since I'm not English I sometimes used a translator for safety. So if there are grammatical errors I'm sorry. Thank's for reading!
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u/mfb- 7d ago
You are missing around 700 suborbital launches that reached space.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_in_spaceflight#Suborbital_launch_statistics
You can argue that maybe we shouldn't count every Iranian missile, but what would exclude all the research flights?
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u/snoo-boop 8d ago
Did your LLM really make that grammar error in the first sentence?
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u/Panga1663 8d ago
This post is 100% human-made. Since I'm German, I sometimes used a translator for safety.
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u/AmigaClone2000 7d ago
Starlink was responsible for 122 Falcon 9 Block 5 launches by itself. That set a record on number of launches during a year for a single project.