Orbital Launch Attempts by Country 2022
About This Dataset
Orbital Launch Attempts by Country 2022
Every attempt to place a payload in orbit during the 2022 calendar year, credited to the country the launch vehicle comes from rather than to the payload or the launch site. Failed attempts count. Suborbital flights and test hops that never targeted orbit are excluded.
Analysis
186 orbital launches were attempted in 2022 and 178 reached orbit. The United States flew 87 of them, 46.8% of the world total and 1.36 times the 64 of China. Together the top two flew 81.2% of all attempts, leaving 35 for the other 7 countries. 5 of the 9 countries attempted three launches or fewer.
Source:
Wikipedia, 2022 in spaceflight
Key Findings
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United States leads in Orbital Launch Attempts with 87 in 2022.
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Average Orbital Launch Attempts in 2022: 21 · median: 3.
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Gap in 2022: United States is 87× larger than South Korea.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia, 2022 in spaceflight
- Coverage
- 9 entities · 2022 · 9 observations
- Measure
- Orbital Launch Attempts
- Last updated
- 7 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2022.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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