2018 orbital launches

In 2018, ExGalactic records 109 orbital launch attempts.

Counts include only launches confirmed by at least two independent sources.

By country

LaunchesCountry
37China
29USA
10French Guiana
9Kazakhstan
8Russia
7India
6Japan
3New Zealand

Launches

  1. Zuma — 8 January 2018, 01:00 UTC — Success
  2. SuperView-1 (Gaojing 1-03 & Gaojing 1-04) — 9 January 2018, 03:24 UTC — Success
  3. Beidou-3 M7 & M8 — 11 January 2018, 23:18 UTC — Success
  4. Cartosat-2F (Cartosat-2S4) — 12 January 2018, 03:59 UTC — Success
  5. NROL-47 — 12 January 2018, 22:11 UTC — Success
  6. LKW-3 (Land Survey Satellite-3) — 13 January 2018, 07:10 UTC — Success
  7. ASNARO-2 — 17 January 2018, 21:06 UTC — Success
  8. Jilin-1-07 (Deqing-1), Jilin-1-08 — 19 January 2018, 04:12 UTC — Success
  9. SBIRS GEO Flight 4 (SBIRS GEO-3) — 20 January 2018, 00:48 UTC — Success
  10. Still Testing — 21 January 2018, 01:43 UTC — Success
  11. 3 x Yaogan-30 — 25 January 2018, 05:39 UTC — Success
  12. Al Yah 3 & SES-14 — 25 January 2018, 22:20 UTC — Partial Failure
  13. GovSat (SES-16) — 31 January 2018, 21:25 UTC — Success
  14. Kanopus-V No.3 & Kanopus-V No.4 — 1 February 2018, 02:07 UTC — Success
  15. Zhangheng-1 (CSES) — 2 February 2018, 07:51 UTC — Success
  16. TRICOM-1R — 3 February 2018, 05:03 UTC — Success
  17. Demo (Test Flight) — 6 February 2018, 20:45 UTC — Success
  18. Beidou-3 M3 & M4 — 12 February 2018, 05:03 UTC — Success
  19. Progress MS-08 (69P) — 13 February 2018, 08:13 UTC — Success
  20. PAZ & Microsat-2a, Microsat-2b — 22 February 2018, 14:17 UTC — Success
  21. IGS Optical 6 — 27 February 2018, 04:34 UTC — Success
  22. GOES-S — 1 March 2018, 22:02 UTC — Success
  23. Hispasat 30W-6 (Hispasat 1F) — 6 March 2018, 05:33 UTC — Success
  24. O3b FM13-16 — 9 March 2018, 17:10 UTC — Success
  25. LKW-4 (Land Survey Satellite-4) — 17 March 2018, 07:10 UTC — Success
  26. Soyuz MS-08 — 21 March 2018, 17:44 UTC — Success
  27. GSAT-6A — 29 March 2018, 11:26 UTC — Success
  28. VNIIEM EMKA (Kosmos 2525) — 29 March 2018, 17:38 UTC — Success
  29. Beidou-3 M9 & M10 — 29 March 2018, 17:56 UTC — Success
  30. Iridium-5 — 30 March 2018, 14:13 UTC — Success
  31. Gaofen 1-02, 1-03 & 1-04 — 31 March 2018, 03:22 UTC — Success
  32. SpX CRS-14 — 2 April 2018, 20:30 UTC — Success
  33. DSN 1 & HYLAS 4 — 5 April 2018, 21:34 UTC — Success
  34. 3 x Yaogan-31-01 — 10 April 2018, 04:25 UTC — Success
  35. IRNSS-1I — 11 April 2018, 22:34 UTC — Success
  36. AFSPC-11 — 14 April 2018, 23:13 UTC — Success
  37. Blagovest No.12L (Kosmos 2526) — 18 April 2018, 22:12 UTC — Success
  38. Sentinel-3B — 25 April 2018, 17:57 UTC — Success
  39. Zhuhai-1-02 — 26 April 2018, 04:42 UTC — Success
  40. APStar-6C — 3 May 2018, 16:06 UTC — Success
  41. InSight, Mars Cube One 1 & Mars Cube One 2 — 5 May 2018, 11:05 UTC — Success
  42. Gaofen 5 — 8 May 2018, 18:28 UTC — Success
  43. Bangabandhu-1 — 11 May 2018, 20:14 UTC — Success
  44. Cygnus CRS OA-9 (S.S. J.R. Thompson) — 21 May 2018, 08:44 UTC — Success
  45. Iridium-6 & GRACE-FO — 22 May 2018, 19:47 UTC — Success
  46. Gaofen 6 & Luojia-1 — 2 June 2018, 04:13 UTC — Success
  47. SES-12 — 4 June 2018, 04:45 UTC — Success
  48. Fengyun-2H — 5 June 2018, 13:07 UTC — Success
  49. Soyuz MS-09 — 6 June 2018, 11:12 UTC — Success
  50. IGS Radar 6 — 12 June 2018, 04:20 UTC — Success
  51. Glonass-M No. 56 (Kosmos 2527) — 16 June 2018, 21:46 UTC — Success
  52. XJS-A & XJS-B — 27 June 2018, 03:30 UTC — Success
  53. SpX CRS-15 — 29 June 2018, 09:42 UTC — Success
  54. PRSS-1 & PakTes-1A — 9 July 2018, 03:56 UTC — Success
  55. Beidou-2 I7 — 9 July 2018, 20:58 UTC — Success
  56. Progress MS-09 (70P) — 9 July 2018, 21:51 UTC — Success
  57. Telstar 19 VANTAGE — 22 July 2018, 05:50 UTC — Success
  58. Galileo L10 (FOC FM19-FM22) — 25 July 2018, 11:25 UTC — Success
  59. Iridium-7 — 25 July 2018, 11:39 UTC — Success
  60. Beidou-3 M5 & M6 — 29 July 2018, 01:48 UTC — Success
  61. Gaofen-11 — 31 July 2018, 03:00 UTC — Success
  62. Merah Putih (Telkom-4) — 7 August 2018, 05:18 UTC — Success
  63. ADM-Aeolus — 22 August 2018, 21:20 UTC — Success
  64. Beidou-3 M11 & M12 — 24 August 2018, 23:52 UTC — Success
  65. Haiyang 1C — 7 September 2018, 03:15 UTC — Success
  66. Telstar 18 VANTAGE — 10 September 2018, 04:45 UTC — Success
  67. ICESat-2 — 15 September 2018, 13:02 UTC — Success
  68. SSTL-S1 & NovaSAR-S — 16 September 2018, 16:38 UTC — Success
  69. Beidou-3 M13 & M14 — 19 September 2018, 14:07 UTC — Success
  70. Kounotori 7 (HTV-7) — 22 September 2018, 17:52 UTC — Success
  71. Azerspace-2/Intelsat-38 & Horizons 3e — 25 September 2018, 22:38 UTC — Success
  72. Centispace-1-S1 — 29 September 2018, 04:13 UTC — Success
  73. SAOCOM 1A — 8 October 2018, 02:21 UTC — Success
  74. Yaogan-32-01 — 9 October 2018, 02:43 UTC — Success
  75. Soyuz MS-10 — 11 October 2018, 08:40 UTC — Failure
  76. Beidou-3 M15 & M16 — 15 October 2018, 04:23 UTC — Success
  77. AEHF-4 (USA 288) — 17 October 2018, 04:15 UTC — Success
  78. Haiyang 2B — 24 October 2018, 22:57 UTC — Success
  79. Lotos-S1 (Kosmos 2528) — 25 October 2018, 00:15 UTC — Success
  80. Weilai-1 (Future-1) — 27 October 2018, 08:00 UTC — Failure
  81. CFOSAT — 29 October 2018, 00:43 UTC — Success
  82. KhalifaSat & GOSAT-2 — 29 October 2018, 04:08 UTC — Success
  83. Beidou-3 G1 — 1 November 2018, 15:57 UTC — Success
  84. Glonass-M No. 57 (Kosmos 2529) — 3 November 2018, 20:17 UTC — Success
  85. MetOp-C — 7 November 2018, 00:47 UTC — Success
  86. It's Business Time (Rideshare) — 11 November 2018, 03:50 UTC — Success
  87. GSAT-29 — 14 November 2018, 11:38 UTC — Success
  88. Es'hail 2 — 15 November 2018, 20:46 UTC — Success
  89. Progress MS-10 (71P) — 16 November 2018, 18:14 UTC — Success
  90. Cygnus CRS NG-10 (S.S. John Young) — 17 November 2018, 09:01 UTC — Success
  91. Beidou-3 M17 & M18 — 18 November 2018, 18:07 UTC — Success
  92. Shiyan 6, Jiading-1 (OKW-1) & others — 19 November 2018, 23:40 UTC — Success
  93. Mohammed VI-B — 21 November 2018, 01:42 UTC — Success
  94. HysIS — 29 November 2018, 04:27 UTC — Success
  95. 3 x Rodnik (Kosmos 2530, 2531, 2532) — 30 November 2018, 02:27 UTC — Success
  96. Soyuz MS-11 — 3 December 2018, 11:31 UTC — Success
  97. Spaceflight SSO-A — 3 December 2018, 18:34 UTC — Success
  98. GSAT-11 & GEO-KOMPSAT-2A — 4 December 2018, 20:37 UTC — Success
  99. SpX CRS-16 — 5 December 2018, 18:16 UTC — Success
  100. SaudiSat 5A & 5B — 7 December 2018, 04:12 UTC — Success
  101. This One's For Pickering (VCLS ELaNa XIX) — 16 December 2018, 06:33 UTC — Success
  102. GSAT-7A — 19 December 2018, 10:40 UTC — Success
  103. CSO-1 — 19 December 2018, 16:37 UTC — Success
  104. Blagovest N13L (Kosmos 2533) — 21 December 2018, 00:20 UTC — Success
  105. Hongyun-1 — 21 December 2018, 23:51 UTC — Success
  106. GPS III SV01 — 23 December 2018, 13:51 UTC — Success
  107. TJS-3 (TJSW-3) — 24 December 2018, 16:53 UTC — Success
  108. Kanopus-V No.5 & Kanopus-V No.6 — 27 December 2018, 02:07 UTC — Success
  109. Hongyan-1 & Yunhai-2 Group 01 — 29 December 2018, 08:00 UTC — Success

Sources: Jonathan's Space Report (GCAT), CC-BY; CelesTrak; Launch Library 2.

Last updated: 2026-10-20 UTC.

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