Busiest Spaceports by Orbital Launches 2023
Source:
Wikipedia, 2023 in spaceflight
Key Findings
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Cape Canaveral (United States) leads in Orbital Launches with 59 in 2023.
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Average Orbital Launches in 2023: 13.19 · median: 7.
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Gap in 2023: Cape Canaveral (United States) is 19.7× larger than Vostochny (Russia).
About This Dataset
Busiest Spaceports by Orbital Launches 2023
Orbital launch attempts flown from each spaceport during 2023, successful or not. A launch is credited to the pad it lifted off from, so sites shared by several operators pool their flights. Suborbital launches, which many of these sites also host, are not counted.
Analysis
Cape Canaveral hosted 59 orbital launches in 2023, 26.5% of the 223 flown worldwide, ahead of Jiuquan on 36. The 16 busiest sites handled 211 launches, 94.6% of the year's total. 4 of them are in the United States and 4 in China. The smallest entry on the chart, Vostochny, flew 3.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia, 2023 in spaceflight
- Coverage
- 16 entities · 2023 · 16 observations
- Measure
- Orbital Launches
- Last updated
- 7 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2023.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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