16,278Active satellitesJonathan McDowell, planet4589.org · 13 Aug 2026
2122026 orbital attempts205 of 212 succeeded; April's New Glenn flight is the one partial failure among the seven
7Listed companies trackedclose, 4 September 2026
≈46,590Catalogued objectsESA DISCOSweb · 31 Jul 2026
The dashboard · dated 05 Sept 2026
Launch cadence
2026 to 5 September 2026, against full-year 2025.
| Provider | 2026 | 2025 | Note |
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| Global orbital attempts | 212 | 329 | 205 of 212 succeeded; April's New Glenn flight is the one partial failure among the seven |
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| SpaceX Falcon 9 + Heavy | 104 | 165 | no failures either year; 102 Falcon 9 and two Falcon Heavy in 2026, the second carrying the Roman Space Telescope on 30 August |
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| China, all vehicles | 61 | 92 | four failures this year; stated national target near 140 for 2026 |
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| Rocket Lab Electron | 12 | 18 | all successful; Neutron still unflown, debut targeted late 2026 |
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| ULA | 5 | 6 | four Atlas V and one Vulcan; every flight since February has been Atlas V |
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| Arianespace Ariane 6 | 4 | 4 | all successful; the 27 August MTG-I2 flight was Ariane 6's first to geostationary transfer orbit |
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| Blue Origin New Glenn | 1 | 2 | April's flight left its payload short of the target orbit; May's loss was a pad explosion |
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| SpaceX Starship tests | 2 | 5 | Flight 12 in May, Flight 13 in July |
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Source: Jonathan McDowell, GCAT launch catalogue
The market board
Listed space companies at the close, 4 September 2026.
| Ticker | Close | Day | 52-week range | Latest material event |
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| SPCX SpaceX | $147.95 | -1.20% | $104.83 to $225.64 | Listed on Nasdaq on 12 June 2026 at $135 a share, about $75bn raised; the 4 September close keeps it above the listing price. 12 Jun · source |
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| RKLB Rocket Lab | $64.26 | +0.71% | $37.57 to $151.00 | $397m US Space Force contract to build and launch Flatellites, flying on the still-unflown Neutron. 4 Aug · source |
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| ASTS AST SpaceMobile | $62.31 | +0.29% | $36.08 to $133.86 | BlueBird 11 to 13 launched: Block 2 satellites at roughly double first-generation throughput. 5 Aug · source |
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| FLY Firefly Aerospace | $21.67 | +2.90% | $16.00 to $62.17 | $144m NASA contract for an accelerated sixth Blue Ghost lunar mission. 30 Jun · source |
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| PL Planet Labs | $18.12 | -1.25% | $6.255 to $51.76 | Record quarterly revenue of $94m, up 42% year on year, for the quarter to 30 April. 4 Jun · source |
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| LUNR Intuitive Machines | $14.81 | +0.75% | $7.78 to $46.75 | Q2 revenue over four times a year earlier, and a record $1.8bn quarter-end backlog; the shares rose 8% on the day. 13 Aug · source |
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| RDW Redwire | $10.53 | +1.54% | $4.87 to $26.64 | Record quarterly revenue of $117.1m, up 89.6% year on year, with backlog at $542.1m. 5 Aug · source |
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Technical milestones · last 90 days
- 30 Aug 2026Falcon Heavy launched NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from LC-39A at 11:26 UTC, sending the observatory on its way to the Sun-Earth L2 point. It is the second Falcon Heavy flight of 2026. source
- 27 Aug 2026Arianespace flew MTG-I2, EUMETSAT's second Meteosat Third Generation imaging satellite, from Kourou at 20:11 UTC on flight VA270: Ariane 6's first mission to geostationary transfer orbit and its fourth flight of the year. Separation came 36 minutes after liftoff. source
- 16 Aug 2026SpaceX flew two Falcon 9s 38 minutes apart from opposite coasts, Globalstar 2-R from Cape Canaveral at 01:12 UTC and the classified USSF-366 from Vandenberg at 01:50 UTC, on the liftoff times SpaceX publishes for each mission. SpaceX makes no record claim for the gap, so neither do we. source
- 5 Aug 2026AST SpaceMobile's Block 2 BlueBirds reach orbit: up to roughly 200 Mbps from a satellite direct to an unmodified phone, double the first generation. source
- 30 Jul 2026NASA joined the Orion crew and service modules for Artemis III at Kennedy; all four SLS engines are in the assembly building. source
- 24 Jul 2026Starship Flight 13: the first deployment of next-generation Starlink V3 satellites from Starship, an in-space Raptor relight, and the ship's first intact splashdown, coming to rest whole in the Indian Ocean. source
- 5 Jul 2026JAXA's Hayabusa2 flew within roughly 400 metres of asteroid Torifune, the closest flyby of any Solar System body to date. source
Money in motion · last 90 days
- $1.6bnSpaceX: two national-security task orders covering 18 Falcon 9 launches through 2027. 29 Jul 2026 · source
- $615mUS Space Force airborne-target-tracking awards across three vendors; Rocket Lab's share is $397m. 4 Aug 2026 · source
- $500mK2 Space Series D at a $6.8bn valuation to scale large high-power satellites. 30 Jul 2026 · source
- $250mStarcloud Series A extension at a $2.3bn post-money valuation, led by Manhattan West; $450m raised in total. 21 Aug 2026 · source
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