2020 orbital launches

In 2020, ExGalactic records 109 orbital launch attempts.

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

By country

LaunchesCountry
37China
33USA
8Russia
7French Guiana
7Kazakhstan
7New Zealand
3Japan
3Other
2India
2Iran

Launches

  1. Starlink 2 — 7 January 2020, 02:19 UTC — Success
  2. TJS-5 (TJSW-5) — 7 January 2020, 15:20 UTC — Success
  3. Jilin-1 Wideband 01, Tianqi-4, NuSat-7 & 8 — 15 January 2020, 02:53 UTC — Success
  4. Yinhe-1 — 16 January 2020, 03:02 UTC — Success
  5. Eutelsat Konnect & GSAT-30 — 16 January 2020, 21:05 UTC — Success
  6. Starlink 3 — 29 January 2020, 14:06 UTC — Success
  7. Birds of a Feather (NROL-151) — 31 January 2020, 02:56 UTC — Success
  8. OneWeb 2 — 6 February 2020, 21:42 UTC — Success
  9. IGS Optical 7 — 9 February 2020, 01:34 UTC — Success
  10. Zafar-1 — 9 February 2020, 15:45 UTC — Failure
  11. Cygnus CRS-2 NG-13 (S.S. Robert H. Lawrence.) — 15 February 2020, 20:21 UTC — Success
  12. Starlink 4 — 17 February 2020, 15:05 UTC — Success
  13. JCSAT-17 & GEO-KOMPSAT-2B — 18 February 2020, 22:18 UTC — Success
  14. XJS-C, XJS-D, XJS-E, XJS-F — 19 February 2020, 21:07 UTC — Success
  15. Meridian-M No.19L — 20 February 2020, 08:24 UTC — Success
  16. SpX CRS-20 — 7 March 2020, 04:50 UTC — Success
  17. Beidou-3 G2 — 9 March 2020, 11:55 UTC — Success
  18. TJS-6 (Maiden Flight) — 16 March 2020, 13:34 UTC — Failure
  19. Glonass-M No. 60 (Kosmos 2545) — 16 March 2020, 18:28 UTC — Success
  20. Starlink 5 — 18 March 2020, 12:16 UTC — Success
  21. OneWeb 3 — 21 March 2020, 17:06 UTC — Success
  22. Yaogan-30-06 — 24 March 2020, 03:43 UTC — Success
  23. AEHF-6 — 26 March 2020, 20:18 UTC — Success
  24. Soyuz MS-16 — 9 April 2020, 08:05 UTC — Success
  25. Nusantara Dua — 9 April 2020, 11:46 UTC — Failure
  26. Noor — 22 April 2020, 03:58 UTC — Success
  27. Starlink 6 — 22 April 2020, 19:30 UTC — Success
  28. Progress MS-14 (75P) — 25 April 2020, 01:51 UTC — Success
  29. Maiden Flight — 5 May 2020, 10:00 UTC — Success
  30. Xingyun-2 01, 02 — 12 May 2020, 01:16 UTC — Success
  31. OTV-6 (X-37B) (USSF-7) — 17 May 2020, 13:14 UTC — Success
  32. Kounotori 9 (HTV-9) — 20 May 2020, 17:31 UTC — Success
  33. EKS 4 (Tundra 4) (Kosmos 2546) — 22 May 2020, 07:31 UTC — Success
  34. Launch Demo — 25 May 2020, 19:50 UTC — Failure
  35. XJS-G & XJS-H — 29 May 2020, 20:13 UTC — Success
  36. Gaofen-9-02 — 31 May 2020, 08:53 UTC — Success
  37. Starlink 7 — 4 June 2020, 01:25 UTC — Success
  38. Haiyang 1D — 10 June 2020, 18:31 UTC — Success
  39. Don't Stop Me Now (Rideshare) — 13 June 2020, 05:12 UTC — Success
  40. Starlink 8 — 13 June 2020, 09:21 UTC — Success
  41. Gaofen-9-03 — 17 June 2020, 07:19 UTC — Success
  42. Beidou-3 G3 — 23 June 2020, 01:43 UTC — Success
  43. GPS III SV03 — 30 June 2020, 20:10 UTC — Success
  44. Gaofen Multimode — 3 July 2020, 03:10 UTC — Success
  45. Pics Or It Didn’t Happen (Rideshare) — 4 July 2020, 21:19 UTC — Failure
  46. Chuangxin 3A (02) — 4 July 2020, 23:44 UTC — Success
  47. Ofek-16 — 6 July 2020, 01:00 UTC — Success
  48. APStar-6D — 9 July 2020, 12:11 UTC — Success
  49. Maiden Flight — 10 July 2020, 04:17 UTC — Failure
  50. NROL-129 — 15 July 2020, 13:46 UTC — Success
  51. ANASIS-II — 20 July 2020, 21:30 UTC — Success
  52. Progress MS-15 (76P) — 23 July 2020, 14:26 UTC — Success
  53. Ziyuan-3-03 — 25 July 2020, 03:13 UTC — Success
  54. Ekspress-80 & Ekspress-103 — 30 July 2020, 21:25 UTC — Success
  55. Gaofen-9-04 — 6 August 2020, 04:01 UTC — Success
  56. Starlink 9 — 7 August 2020, 05:12 UTC — Success
  57. Galaxy 30, MEV-2 & BSAT-4B — 15 August 2020, 22:04 UTC — Success
  58. Starlink 10 — 18 August 2020, 14:31 UTC — Success
  59. Gaofen-9-05 — 23 August 2020, 02:27 UTC — Success
  60. SAOCOM 1B — 30 August 2020, 23:18 UTC — Success
  61. I Can’t Believe It’s Not Optical (Capella 2 & First Light) — 31 August 2020, 03:05 UTC — Success
  62. SSMS PoC — 3 September 2020, 01:51 UTC — Success
  63. Starlink 11 — 3 September 2020, 12:46 UTC — Success
  64. Chinese Reusable Space Vehicle — 4 September 2020, 07:30 UTC — Success
  65. Gaofen-11-02 — 7 September 2020, 05:57 UTC — Success
  66. Maiden Flight — 12 September 2020, 03:19 UTC — Failure
  67. Jilin-1-02C — 12 September 2020, 05:02 UTC — Failure
  68. Jilin-1 High Resolution 03B 01-06 & 03C 01-03 — 15 September 2020, 01:23 UTC — Success
  69. Haiyang 2C — 21 September 2020, 05:40 UTC — Success
  70. Huanjing 2A, 2B — 27 September 2020, 03:23 UTC — Success
  71. Gonets-M27, Gonets-M28, Gonets-M29 & others — 28 September 2020, 11:20 UTC — Success
  72. Cygnus CRS-2 NG-14 (S.S. Kalpana Chawla) — 3 October 2020, 01:16 UTC — Success
  73. Starlink 12 — 6 October 2020, 11:29 UTC — Success
  74. Gaofen 13 — 11 October 2020, 16:57 UTC — Success
  75. Soyuz MS-17 — 14 October 2020, 05:45 UTC — Success
  76. Starlink 13 — 18 October 2020, 12:25 UTC — Success
  77. Starlink 14 — 24 October 2020, 15:31 UTC — Success
  78. Glonass-K1 No. 15 (Kosmos 2547) — 25 October 2020, 19:08 UTC — Success
  79. Yaogan-30-07 — 26 October 2020, 15:19 UTC — Success
  80. In Focus (Rideshare) — 28 October 2020, 21:21 UTC — Success
  81. GPS III SV04 — 5 November 2020, 23:24 UTC — Success
  82. Satellogic x 10 — 6 November 2020, 03:19 UTC — Success
  83. Tianqi-11 — 7 November 2020, 07:12 UTC — Success
  84. EOS-01 (RISAT-2BR2) — 7 November 2020, 09:41 UTC — Success
  85. Tiantong-1-02 — 12 November 2020, 15:59 UTC — Success
  86. NROL-101 — 13 November 2020, 22:32 UTC — Success
  87. Crew-1 — 16 November 2020, 00:27 UTC — Success
  88. SEOSAT-Ingenio & Taranis — 17 November 2020, 01:52 UTC — Failure
  89. Return to Sender (Rideshare) — 20 November 2020, 02:20 UTC — Success
  90. Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich — 21 November 2020, 17:17 UTC — Success
  91. Chang'e 5 — 23 November 2020, 20:30 UTC — Success
  92. Starlink 15 — 25 November 2020, 02:13 UTC — Success
  93. JDRS-1 — 29 November 2020, 07:25 UTC — Success
  94. Falcon Eye 2 — 2 December 2020, 01:33 UTC — Success
  95. Gonets-M30, Gonets-M31, Gonets-M32 — 3 December 2020, 01:14 UTC — Success
  96. Gaofen 14 — 6 December 2020, 03:57 UTC — Success
  97. Dragon CRS-2 SpX-21 — 6 December 2020, 16:17 UTC — Success
  98. GECAM — 9 December 2020, 20:14 UTC — Success
  99. NROL-44 — 11 December 2020, 01:09 UTC — Success
  100. Sirius SXM-7 — 13 December 2020, 17:30 UTC — Success
  101. Dummy payload — 14 December 2020, 05:50 UTC — Success
  102. The Owl's Night Begins (StriX-α) — 15 December 2020, 10:09 UTC — Success
  103. Flight 2 — 15 December 2020, 20:55 UTC — Failure
  104. CMS-01 (GSAT-12R) — 17 December 2020, 10:11 UTC — Success
  105. OneWeb 4 — 18 December 2020, 12:26 UTC — Success
  106. NROL-108 — 19 December 2020, 14:00 UTC — Success
  107. XJY-7 & others — 22 December 2020, 04:37 UTC — Success
  108. Yaogan-33(R) — 27 December 2020, 15:44 UTC — Success
  109. CSO-2 — 29 December 2020, 16:42 UTC — Success

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

Last updated: 2026-10-20 UTC.

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