Busiest Spaceports by Orbital Launches 2021
Source:
Wikipedia, 2021 in spaceflight
Key Findings
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Jiuquan (China) leads in Orbital Launches with 22 in 2021.
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Average Orbital Launches in 2021: 10.83 · median: 9.50.
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Gap in 2021: Jiuquan (China) is 4.4× larger than Wenchang (China).
About This Dataset
Busiest Spaceports by Orbital Launches 2021
Orbital launch attempts flown from each spaceport during 2021, 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
Jiuquan hosted 22 orbital launches in 2021, 15.2% of the 145 flown worldwide, ahead of Cape Canaveral on 19. The 12 busiest sites handled 130 launches, 89.7% of the 145 the source assigns to a named site. 3 of them are in the United States and 4 in China. The site table accounts for 145 of the 146 orbital launches flown in 2021; one launch is not attributed to a site. The smallest entry on the chart, Wenchang, flew 5.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia, 2021 in spaceflight
- Coverage
- 12 entities · 2021 · 12 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 2021.
Data Sources & References
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