2021 orbital launches

In 2021, ExGalactic records 141 orbital launch attempts.

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

By country

LaunchesCountry
53China
41USA
14Kazakhstan
10Russia
6French Guiana
6New Zealand
3Japan
3Other
2India
2Iran
1South Korea

Launches

  1. Türksat 5A — 8 January 2021, 02:15 UTC — Success
  2. Launch Demo 2 — 17 January 2021, 19:38 UTC — Success
  3. Tiantong-1-03 — 19 January 2021, 16:25 UTC — Success
  4. Another One Leaves The Crust (GMS-T) — 20 January 2021, 07:26 UTC — Success
  5. Starlink 16 — 20 January 2021, 13:02 UTC — Success
  6. Transporter 1 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) — 24 January 2021, 15:00 UTC — Success
  7. Yaogan-31-02 — 29 January 2021, 04:47 UTC — Success
  8. Unknown — 1 February 2021, 08:15 UTC — Failure
  9. Lotos-S1 — 2 February 2021, 20:45 UTC — Success
  10. Starlink 18 — 4 February 2021, 06:19 UTC — Success
  11. TJSW-6 — 4 February 2021, 15:36 UTC — Success
  12. Progress MS-16 (77P) — 15 February 2021, 04:45 UTC — Success
  13. Starlink 19 — 16 February 2021, 03:59 UTC — Success
  14. Cygnus CRS-2 NG-15 (S.S. Katherine Johnson) — 20 February 2021, 17:36 UTC — Success
  15. Yaogan-31-03 — 24 February 2021, 02:22 UTC — Success
  16. Amazonia 1 & 18 others — 28 February 2021, 04:54 UTC — Success
  17. Arktika-M No.1 — 28 February 2021, 06:55 UTC — Success
  18. Starlink 17 — 4 March 2021, 08:24 UTC — Success
  19. Starlink 20 — 11 March 2021, 08:13 UTC — Success
  20. Shiyan 9 (XJY-6-02) — 11 March 2021, 17:51 UTC — Success
  21. Yaogan-31-04 — 13 March 2021, 02:19 UTC — Success
  22. Starlink 21 — 14 March 2021, 10:01 UTC — Success
  23. CAS500-1 & rideshare — 22 March 2021, 06:07 UTC — Success
  24. They Go Up So Fast (Rideshare) — 22 March 2021, 22:30 UTC — Success
  25. Starlink 22 — 24 March 2021, 08:28 UTC — Success
  26. OneWeb 5 — 25 March 2021, 02:47 UTC — Success
  27. Gaofen-12-02 — 30 March 2021, 22:45 UTC — Success
  28. Starlink 23 — 7 April 2021, 16:34 UTC — Success
  29. Shiyan-6-03 — 8 April 2021, 23:01 UTC — Success
  30. Soyuz MS-18 — 9 April 2021, 07:42 UTC — Success
  31. Crew-2 — 23 April 2021, 09:49 UTC — Success
  32. OneWeb 6 — 25 April 2021, 22:14 UTC — Success
  33. NROL-82 — 26 April 2021, 20:47 UTC — Success
  34. Qilu-1, Qilu-4 & others — 27 April 2021, 03:20 UTC — Success
  35. Pléiades Neo 3 — 29 April 2021, 01:50 UTC — Success
  36. Tianhe — 29 April 2021, 03:23 UTC — Success
  37. Starlink 24 — 29 April 2021, 03:44 UTC — Success
  38. Yaogan 34 — 30 April 2021, 07:27 UTC — Success
  39. Starlink 25 — 4 May 2021, 19:01 UTC — Success
  40. Yaogan-30-08 — 6 May 2021, 18:11 UTC — Success
  41. Starlink 27 — 9 May 2021, 06:42 UTC — Success
  42. Running Out of Toes (BlackSky 8-9) — 15 May 2021, 11:11 UTC — Failure
  43. Starlink 26 — 15 May 2021, 22:56 UTC — Success
  44. SBIRS GEO-5 — 18 May 2021, 17:37 UTC — Success
  45. Haiyang 2D — 19 May 2021, 04:03 UTC — Success
  46. Starlink 28 — 26 May 2021, 18:59 UTC — Success
  47. OneWeb 7 — 28 May 2021, 17:38 UTC — Success
  48. Tianzhou-2 — 29 May 2021, 12:55 UTC — Success
  49. Fengyun-4B — 2 June 2021, 16:17 UTC — Success
  50. Dragon CRS-2 SpX-22 — 3 June 2021, 17:29 UTC — Success
  51. Sirius SXM-8 — 6 June 2021, 04:26 UTC — Success
  52. Beijing-3 — 11 June 2021, 03:03 UTC — Success
  53. Unknown — 12 June 2021, 00:00 UTC — Failure
  54. Odyssey (TacRL-2) — 13 June 2021, 08:11 UTC — Success
  55. NROL-111 — 15 June 2021, 13:35 UTC — Success
  56. GPS III SV05 — 17 June 2021, 16:09 UTC — Success
  57. Yaogan-30-09 — 18 June 2021, 06:30 UTC — Success
  58. Pion-NKS No. 1 (Kosmos 2550) — 25 June 2021, 19:50 UTC — Success
  59. Progress MS-17 (78P) — 29 June 2021, 23:27 UTC — Success
  60. Tubular Bells, Part One — 30 June 2021, 14:47 UTC — Success
  61. Transporter 2 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) — 30 June 2021, 19:31 UTC — Success
  62. OneWeb 8 — 1 July 2021, 12:48 UTC — Success
  63. Jilin-1 Wideband-01B & High Resolution 03D — 3 July 2021, 02:51 UTC — Success
  64. Fengyun-3E — 4 July 2021, 23:28 UTC — Success
  65. Tianlian 1-05 — 6 July 2021, 15:53 UTC — Success
  66. Zhongzi Group 02 (Ningxia-1-02) — 9 July 2021, 11:59 UTC — Success
  67. Yaogan-30-10 — 19 July 2021, 00:19 UTC — Success
  68. MLM Nauka — 21 July 2021, 14:58 UTC — Success
  69. Tianhui-1-04 — 29 July 2021, 04:01 UTC — Success
  70. It’s a Little Chile Up Here (STP-27RM) — 29 July 2021, 06:00 UTC — Success
  71. Star One D2 & Eutelsat Quantum — 30 July 2021, 21:00 UTC — Success
  72. Jilin-1 Mofang-01A (?) — 3 August 2021, 07:39 UTC — Failure
  73. KL-Beta — 4 August 2021, 11:01 UTC — Success
  74. Zhongxing 2E (Chinasat 2E) — 5 August 2021, 16:30 UTC — Success
  75. Cygnus CRS-2 NG-16 (S.S. Ellison Onizuka) — 10 August 2021, 22:01 UTC — Success
  76. EOS-03 (GISAT-1) — 12 August 2021, 00:13 UTC — Failure
  77. Pléiades Neo 4 — 17 August 2021, 01:47 UTC — Success
  78. Tianhui-2-02 — 18 August 2021, 22:32 UTC — Success
  79. OneWeb 9 — 21 August 2021, 22:13 UTC — Success
  80. RSW-01 - 03 — 24 August 2021, 11:15 UTC — Success
  81. TJSW-7 — 24 August 2021, 15:41 UTC — Success
  82. STP-27AD1 — 28 August 2021, 22:35 UTC — Failure
  83. Dragon CRS-2 SpX-23 — 29 August 2021, 07:14 UTC — Success
  84. FLTA001 (Maiden Flight) — 3 September 2021, 01:59 UTC — Failure
  85. Gaofen-5-02 — 7 September 2021, 03:01 UTC — Success
  86. ChinaSat 9B — 9 September 2021, 11:50 UTC — Success
  87. Razbeg 1 (Kosmos 2551) — 9 September 2021, 19:59 UTC — Success
  88. Starlink Group 2-1 — 14 September 2021, 03:55 UTC — Success
  89. OneWeb 10 — 14 September 2021, 18:07 UTC — Success
  90. Inspiration4 — 16 September 2021, 00:02 UTC — Success
  91. Tianzhou-3 — 20 September 2021, 07:10 UTC — Success
  92. Jilin-1-02D — 27 September 2021, 06:19 UTC — Success
  93. Shiyan 10 — 27 September 2021, 08:20 UTC — Success
  94. Landsat 9 — 27 September 2021, 18:12 UTC — Success
  95. Soyuz MS-19 — 5 October 2021, 08:55 UTC — Success
  96. OneWeb 11 — 14 October 2021, 09:40 UTC — Success
  97. Xihe (CHASE) — 14 October 2021, 10:51 UTC — Success
  98. Flight Test — 21 October 2021, 08:00 UTC — Failure
  99. Shijian 21 — 24 October 2021, 01:27 UTC — Success
  100. SES-17 & Syracuse 4A — 24 October 2021, 02:10 UTC — Success
  101. QZS-1R — 26 October 2021, 02:19 UTC — Success
  102. Jilin-1-02F — 27 October 2021, 06:19 UTC — Success
  103. Progress MS-18 (79P) — 28 October 2021, 00:00 UTC — Success
  104. Yaogan-32-02 — 3 November 2021, 07:43 UTC — Success
  105. SDGSAT-1 — 5 November 2021, 02:19 UTC — Success
  106. Yaogan 35 A/B/C — 6 November 2021, 03:00 UTC — Success
  107. RAISE-2 & others — 9 November 2021, 00:55 UTC — Success
  108. Crew-3 — 11 November 2021, 02:03 UTC — Success
  109. Starlink Group 4-1 — 13 November 2021, 12:18 UTC — Success
  110. CERES — 16 November 2021, 09:27 UTC — Success
  111. Love At First Insight (BlackSky 10-11) — 18 November 2021, 01:38 UTC — Success
  112. Gaofen-11-03 — 20 November 2021, 01:51 UTC — Success
  113. STP-27AD2 — 20 November 2021, 06:16 UTC — Success
  114. Gaofen-3 02 — 22 November 2021, 23:45 UTC — Success
  115. Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) — 24 November 2021, 06:21 UTC — Success
  116. Uzlovoy Module (UM) "Prichal" — 24 November 2021, 13:06 UTC — Success
  117. Shiyan 11 — 24 November 2021, 23:41 UTC — Success
  118. EKS 5 (Tundra 5) (Kosmos 2552) — 25 November 2021, 01:09 UTC — Success
  119. ChinaSat 1D — 26 November 2021, 16:40 UTC — Success
  120. Starlink Group 4-3 — 2 December 2021, 23:12 UTC — Success
  121. Galileo L11 (FOC FM23-FM24) — 5 December 2021, 00:19 UTC — Success
  122. Golden Bauhinia 1-03 & others — 7 December 2021, 04:12 UTC — Success
  123. STP-3 — 7 December 2021, 10:19 UTC — Success
  124. Soyuz MS-20 — 8 December 2021, 07:38 UTC — Success
  125. A Data With Destiny (BlackSky 14-15) — 9 December 2021, 00:02 UTC — Success
  126. X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) — 9 December 2021, 06:00 UTC — Success
  127. Shijian 6 Group 05 — 10 December 2021, 00:11 UTC — Success
  128. Ekspress-AMU3 & AMU7 — 13 December 2021, 12:07 UTC — Success
  129. Tianlian 2-02 — 13 December 2021, 16:09 UTC — Success
  130. GeeSat x2 — 15 December 2021, 02:00 UTC — Failure
  131. Starlink Group 4-4 — 18 December 2021, 12:41 UTC — Success
  132. Türksat 5B — 19 December 2021, 03:58 UTC — Success
  133. Dragon CRS-2 SpX-24 — 21 December 2021, 10:07 UTC — Success
  134. Inmarsat-6 F1 — 22 December 2021, 15:32 UTC — Success
  135. Shiyan 12-01 & 02 — 23 December 2021, 10:12 UTC — Success
  136. Ziyuan 1-02E & CAS-9 — 26 December 2021, 03:11 UTC — Success
  137. OneWeb 12 — 27 December 2021, 13:10 UTC — Success
  138. Dummy payload — 27 December 2021, 19:00 UTC — Failure
  139. Tianhui 4 — 29 December 2021, 11:13 UTC — Success
  140. TJSW-9 — 29 December 2021, 16:43 UTC — Success
  141. 3 unknown payloads — 30 December 2021, 03:30 UTC — Failure

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

Last updated: 2026-10-20 UTC.

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