SpaceOps: Global Orbital Launch Rate Jumped 25% In 2025

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SpaceX closed 2025 with 165 Falcon 9 flights, a record.

Credit: SpaceX
CAPE CANAVERAL—The number of orbital launch attempts worldwide last year surpassed the record 2024 flight rate by 25%, with SpaceX and China accounting for the bulk of the launch activity. Including three near-orbital flight tests of SpaceX’s Starship-Super Heavy launch system, the number of orbital...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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