# SpaceNexus > SpaceNexus (spacenexus.us) is an independent space-industry intelligence site for enthusiasts and professionals: the launch schedule with live countdowns, a launch slip ledger and on-time record, the US vs China Race to the Moon tracker, space company profiles and the Space Score, funding rounds, space jobs, space weather, charts and guides. Numbers carry an as-of date and a named source; our own data is CC BY 4.0. Most pages are free to read without an account. The site sells advertising and labelled partner articles, and money never changes data: no payment affects a score, ranking, data table, search order or fact-check, and paid content never appears in our open feeds, our MCP server or this file. Every computed number is explained on the methodology page; errors can be reported on the corrections page. ## How to cite SpaceNexus - Attribution line: "Data: SpaceNexus (spacenexus.us)", with a link to the page the figure came from. - Quote the as-of date shown beside a number (every open feed and MCP answer carries dataAsOf). Launch dates are UTC and can move; our launch pages show how firm each date is. - Our own data is CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Third-party facts are credited field by field and are not relicensed: launch facts come from Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs; each funding round names its source; space weather is NOAA SWPC and NASA DONKI data. - Found an error? Report it at https://spacenexus.us/corrections; corrections are logged with dates. ## Questions and the page that answers them - [When is the next launch?](https://spacenexus.us/mission-control): Mission Control: the launch schedule - [What does a launch cost?](https://spacenexus.us/guide/space-launch-cost-comparison): Space launch cost comparison - [Which rockets fly, and what can they lift?](https://spacenexus.us/rockets): Every rocket - [Can I see the ISS tonight?](https://spacenexus.us/tonight): ISS passes tonight - [Who is hiring in space?](https://spacenexus.us/jobs): Space jobs - [How do I get SpaceNexus by email?](https://spacenexus.us/newsletter): Newsletters - [How is the space market doing?](https://spacenexus.us/space-stocks): Space stocks - [What rules apply, and what is changing?](https://spacenexus.us/compliance): Compliance hub (free to read; some tools on it need a Pro plan) - [Who is ahead in the race to the Moon, the US or China?](https://spacenexus.us/moon): Race to the Moon tracker - [When is the next Moon landing?](https://spacenexus.us/moon/next-landing): The next crewed and robotic landing attempts - [Which rockets and providers are most often delayed?](https://spacenexus.us/launch-slips): Launch slip ledger - [Which launch providers fly on time?](https://spacenexus.us/launch-ledger): Launch on-time record - [Which launches are parked on December 31 and slip into next year?](https://spacenexus.us/december-31-cliff/2026): The December 31 Cliff - [What is the space weather right now?](https://spacenexus.us/space-weather): Space weather now: Kp, solar wind, flare outlook - [How many satellites are in orbit?](https://spacenexus.us/how-many-satellites): Live orbital census - [How much are space startups raising?](https://spacenexus.us/funding-tracker): Funding rounds and the funding tracker - [Which space companies rank highest?](https://spacenexus.us/rankings/space-score-top-25): Space Score Top 25 - [What is happening with Starship?](https://spacenexus.us/starship): Starship tracker - [Did space agencies and companies keep their promises?](https://spacenexus.us/promises): Promise Ledger - [How fast is the world launching this year?](https://spacenexus.us/launch-cadence): Launch Cadence Index ## Live data pages - [Next 50 launches](https://spacenexus.us/mission-control): The next 50 orbital launches on the manifest, plus launches flown in the last 30 days with their outcome (success, partial failure, failure), each with our recorded date changes and a link to its page. JSON: https://spacenexus.us/api/open/launches - [Launch slip ledger](https://spacenexus.us/launch-slips): Recent launch date changes as our ledger recorded them (moves of one launch on one UTC day netted into one row), with totals since recording began. JSON: https://spacenexus.us/api/open/launch-slips - [Space Score top 25](https://spacenexus.us/rankings/space-score-top-25): The 25 highest-ranked companies on the current Space Score board, with tier, confidence, data coverage and pillar scores, and a link to the method. JSON: https://spacenexus.us/api/open/space-score - [Race to the Moon tracker](https://spacenexus.us/moon): US vs China: milestones demonstrated on both 8-rung ladders, the projection call with its headline-scenario date bands, official targets and the next uncrewed landing attempt. JSON: https://spacenexus.us/api/open/moon-race - [Recent funding rounds](https://spacenexus.us/funding-tracker): Closed private funding rounds into space companies in the last 90 days (up to 50, newest first) with the headline summary. IPOs, offerings, debt, grants, acquisitions and "Raising now" intentions are not included. JSON: https://spacenexus.us/api/open/funding-rounds ## Open data, API and MCP server - [Open data feeds index](https://spacenexus.us/api/open): free JSON feeds, no key or account, CORS open, 60 requests a minute per IP. Every response carries its licence, per-field credits and dataAsOf. - [MCP server](https://spacenexus.us/developer/ai): https://spacenexus.us/api/mcp (Streamable HTTP, read-only, no account, 120 requests a minute per IP). Tools: next_launches, launch_slips, launch_on_time_record, recent_funding_rounds, company_lookup, space_weather_now, moon_race_status, space_jobs_count, search_site. - [Free datasets](https://spacenexus.us/datasets): CSV downloads of companies, funding rounds, the orbital launch log, vehicle reliability, the slip ledger, daily hiring counts and executive moves (free account). - [Lunar mission catalogue](https://spacenexus.us/moon/missions): CSV https://spacenexus.us/moon/missions.csv (no account) - [Moon landing attempts](https://spacenexus.us/moon/landings): CSV https://spacenexus.us/moon/landings.csv (no account) - [Moon promise ledger](https://spacenexus.us/moon/promise-ledger): CSV https://spacenexus.us/moon/promise-ledger.csv (no account) - [Developer API](https://spacenexus.us/developer): the keyed API for bulk and historical access, with an OpenAPI spec. ### Open feeds in detail #### Next 50 launches - JSON: https://spacenexus.us/api/open/launches - Page: https://spacenexus.us/mission-control - What: The next 50 orbital launches on the manifest, plus launches flown in the last 30 days with their outcome (success, partial failure, failure), each with our recorded date changes and a link to its page. - Credits: Launch facts: Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs. Outcome wording, slip counts and links: SpaceNexus. - Cache: 300 seconds #### Launch slip ledger - JSON: https://spacenexus.us/api/open/launch-slips - Page: https://spacenexus.us/launch-slips - What: Recent launch date changes as our ledger recorded them (moves of one launch on one UTC day netted into one row), with totals since recording began. - Credits: The ledger is SpaceNexus data; mission names and the dates themselves come from Launch Library 2. - Cache: 600 seconds #### Space Score top 25 - JSON: https://spacenexus.us/api/open/space-score - Page: https://spacenexus.us/rankings/space-score-top-25 - What: The 25 highest-ranked companies on the current Space Score board, with tier, confidence, data coverage and pillar scores, and a link to the method. - Credits: SpaceNexus data, computed by the published method from public inputs. - Cache: 3600 seconds #### Race to the Moon tracker - JSON: https://spacenexus.us/api/open/moon-race - Page: https://spacenexus.us/moon - What: US vs China: milestones demonstrated on both 8-rung ladders, the projection call with its headline-scenario date bands, official targets and the next uncrewed landing attempt. - Credits: SpaceNexus data; every rung cites its sources on /moon. - Cache: 3600 seconds #### Recent funding rounds - JSON: https://spacenexus.us/api/open/funding-rounds - Page: https://spacenexus.us/funding-tracker - What: Closed private funding rounds into space companies in the last 90 days (up to 50, newest first) with the headline summary. IPOs, offerings, debt, grants, acquisitions and "Raising now" intentions are not included. - Credits: Round facts as reported by each row’s cited source (SEC filings, company releases, publishers). Classification and summary: SpaceNexus. - Cache: 900 seconds ## MCP tools Endpoint: https://spacenexus.us/api/mcp. Setup for Claude, ChatGPT and other clients: https://spacenexus.us/developer/ai. ### next_launches Upcoming orbital launches from the SpaceNexus manifest (the next 50 scheduled), filterable by provider, rocket, launch site and country. Each launch has its NET date and precision, status, the date changes our ledger recorded, and its page URL. - Cite: https://spacenexus.us/mission-control - Arguments: provider (Launch provider: a name or common short name, e.g. "SpaceX", "ULA", "ISRO", "CASC", "Rocket Lab".); rocket (Rocket, matched as a substring, e.g. "Falcon 9", "Starship", "Long March".); site (Launch site: a spaceport name or slug ("Cape Canaveral" includes Kennedy, "vandenberg", "Starbase", "Andoya") or any pad name.); country (Country of the launch site, by name or code, e.g. "United States", "China", "France" (Kourou), "NZL".); limit (How many launches to return (1 to 20).); include_recent_outcomes (Also return launches flown in the last 30 days with their outcome.) ### launch_slips Recent launch date changes as the SpaceNexus slip ledger recorded them (old date, new date, size of the move, kind of move), with totals since recording began and the provider scorecard once the ledger is large enough. - Cite: https://spacenexus.us/launch-slips - Arguments: provider (Only moves by this provider: a name or common short name (ULA, ISRO, CASC).); rocket (Only moves of this rocket (substring).); real_moves_only (Leave out placeholder moves (a "NET 2026" style date firming or rolling); keep slips, pull-ins and adjustments.); limit (How many recent date changes to return (1 to 25).) ### launch_on_time_record How often launches fly on time: the share of flown launches that lifted off within 1 day and within 7 days of the first firm date on record, with mean and median delay, grouped by provider, vehicle or launch site. - Cite: https://spacenexus.us/launch-ledger - Arguments: group_by (Group the on-time record by launch provider, vehicle or launch site.); name (Only groups whose name contains this text, e.g. "SpaceX" or "Falcon 9".); limit (How many groups to return (1 to 25).) ### recent_funding_rounds Closed private funding rounds into space companies in the last 90 days, newest first, with amount (null when undisclosed, never estimated), stage, investors, how the round is evidenced and its source link. - Cite: https://spacenexus.us/funding-tracker - Arguments: company (Company name, matched as a substring.); stage (Round stage, matched as a substring, e.g. "Seed", "Series B".); min_amount_usd (Only rounds with a disclosed amount at or above this, in US dollars.); days (Look-back window in days (1 to 90).); limit (How many rounds to return (1 to 25).) ### company_lookup Public profile facts for a space company: what it does, sector, country, headquarters, founding year, public or private, ticker, total funding and last round as shown on its profile, and its Space Score when it is ranked. - Cite: https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles - Arguments: query (Company name, profile slug or stock ticker, e.g. "Rocket Lab", "rocket-lab" or "RKLB".); limit (How many matching companies to return (1 to 5).) ### space_weather_now Current geomagnetic Kp and NOAA G-scale, solar wind speed, density and Bz, the NOAA 3-day flare outlook and flares in the last 14 days, with a plain-language read for satellite operators. NOAA SWPC and NASA DONKI data. - Cite: https://spacenexus.us/space-weather - Arguments: none ### moon_race_status The US vs China Moon race tracker: milestones demonstrated on both 8-rung ladders (crewed landing and sustained presence), who leads each, the projection call with its date bands, official targets and the next uncrewed landing attempt. - Cite: https://spacenexus.us/moon - Arguments: none ### space_jobs_count How many open roles the SpaceNexus jobs board lists right now (mirrored daily from employers' careers pages), how many employers are hiring, how many roles are new this week or remote, and optionally one employer's open roles. - Cite: https://spacenexus.us/jobs - Arguments: company (Employer name; returns that employer's open roles on the board when we track it.) ### search_site Search spacenexus.us: companies, rockets, launches, launch sites, guides, charts, Moon missions, funding rounds and analysis. Returns titles, one-line descriptions and the canonical URL of each page. - Cite: https://spacenexus.us/ - Arguments: query (What to look for on spacenexus.us: a company, rocket, launch, guide, chart or topic.); limit (How many results to return (1 to 10).) ## How the numbers are made - [Money never changes data](https://spacenexus.us/methodology#money-wall): We sell advertising, sponsorships and labelled partner articles. None of it can change a score, ranking, tracker, data table, search order or fact-check. - Every paid item is labelled in words before the content: Advertisement, Sponsored, Partner content, Featured, Presented by, or Enhanced listing (paid). - Stock pages, Markets Daily, rankings, report cards, the Moon tracker, monthly reports and charts are sponsor-free: nothing paid renders on them. - Every paid or partner link carries rel="sponsored". Partner articles stay out of the news feed order, site search, RSS feeds, the news sitemap and every AI-drafted product. - A test suite fails the build if a data module reads a paid table or field, if any list is ordered by a sponsor field, or if a paid surface is missing its label. - Sources: The rules live in one module that every paid surface imports. - Refresh: Checked on every build by the guard tests. - Advertising policy: https://spacenexus.us/advertising-policy - Editorial standards: independence: https://spacenexus.us/editorial-standards#independence - [Space Score](https://spacenexus.us/methodology#space-score): A 0 to 1000 composite score for space companies, built from five pillars of measured data. - Five pillars and weights: Scale 30%, Government space demand 20%, Capital access 15%, Momentum 15%, Flight record 20%. - Each metric becomes a percentile rank among the companies measured on it; a pillar is the mean of its metrics; the score is 10 times the weighted mean of the pillars that apply. - Pillars that do not apply to a company are dropped and the weights re-normalised. A company is ranked only with data in at least two pillars covering at least half of its applicable weight. - Scores from before 2026-09-23 (methodology v1) are never compared with current (v2) scores. - Sources: Company profiles, federal awards, funding rounds, job postings and the launch record in our own database. - Refresh: Inputs recomputed at most daily; a snapshot is stored every day at 02:10 UTC. - Full Space Score methodology: https://spacenexus.us/rankings/space-score-methodology - Space Score leaderboard: https://spacenexus.us/report-cards?view=score - [Rankings: Space Score Top 25 and Fastest-Hiring](https://spacenexus.us/methodology#rankings): Dated editions: the quarterly Space Score Top 25 and the monthly fastest-hiring companies. - Top 25: the 25 highest-scoring ranked companies, ties broken on data coverage and then name. The current quarter updates daily and freezes when the quarter ends. - Fastest-hiring: the net change in open roles between each company's first and last daily snapshot in the month, for companies with at least 5 open roles at month end and at least 2 snapshots. - Rank movement is shown only against a previous edition made under the same method. - Sources: Space Score snapshots and daily job-count snapshots. - Refresh: Top 25 daily until the quarter closes; fastest-hiring once per month. - Rankings hub: https://spacenexus.us/rankings - Latest Top 25 and its method: https://spacenexus.us/rankings/space-score-top-25 - Latest fastest-hiring and its method: https://spacenexus.us/rankings/fastest-hiring - [Pure-Play Index](https://spacenexus.us/methodology#pure-play-index): The day's average move of listed space companies, with defense primes and diversified groups left out. - Members: every tracked company with a ticker that is not defunct and has a daily move quoted in the last 4 days, minus companies classed as primes. Each listing gets one vote. - The index is the equal-weighted mean of the members' daily percentage moves, rounded to two decimals. No number is shown with fewer than 5 members. - On 24 September 2026 foreign listings were added and diversified aerospace groups removed; the page states the change. - Sources: Delayed quotes from Yahoo Finance, stored after the US close. - Refresh: Weekdays at 21:30 UTC. - How the index is built: https://spacenexus.us/markets-daily#index-method - Space stocks: https://spacenexus.us/space-stocks - [Funding rounds and the funding tracker](https://spacenexus.us/methodology#funding-rounds): Every private space funding round we can source, and the totals built from them. - Rounds arrive four ways: a nightly sweep of SEC Form D filings; press-reported rounds read from our news feeds and company newsrooms; rounds a claimed company reports itself; and rounds an editor enters by hand. - A press-reported round publishes on its own only when its deterministic confidence score is 0.75 or higher with nothing held; otherwise it waits for review, and a daily check reads each held round against its source. - On the tracker, "Self-reported" means the company reported the round itself; other rounds show the source they cite. Neither label means we independently confirmed the round. - Headline totals count completed private rounds into space companies only. IPOs, public offerings, secondaries, debt, grants and acquisitions are reported beside them as separate lines. Undisclosed amounts stay blank and are never estimated. - Companies raising now are listed on their own page and never added to the totals. A quarter's edition freezes 4 days after the quarter closes and is only changed by a printed correction. - Sources: SEC EDGAR Form D, publishers' reporting, company newsrooms, company self-reports and editor entry. - Refresh: Form D nightly at 04:20 UTC; press reports hourly; newsrooms every 6 hours. - Funding tracker: https://spacenexus.us/funding-tracker - Raising now: https://spacenexus.us/funding-tracker/raising-now - Quarterly editions: https://spacenexus.us/funding-tracker/quarterly - Why funding totals differ: https://spacenexus.us/funding-tracker/why-totals-differ - [Launch schedule and outcomes](https://spacenexus.us/methodology#launch-data): Every upcoming launch, its countdown, and how each flight ended. - Every 15 minutes we read the upcoming launches and events from Launch Library 2 and update each launch by its Launch Library id. - Outcomes (success, failure, partial failure) come from Launch Library 2's status for recent launches, read in the same run, because a launch leaves the upcoming feed at liftoff. The outcome is never taken from a model. - An upcoming launch that disappears from the feed is marked scrubbed only after the outcome pass has run. - Sources: Launch Library 2 (The Space Devs). - Refresh: Every 15 minutes. - Launch schedule: https://spacenexus.us/mission-control - Data sources: https://spacenexus.us/data-sources - [Launch slips](https://spacenexus.us/methodology#launch-slips): A ledger of every time a tracked launch date moved, recorded as it happened. - On every launch sync, if a launch's date moves by more than a minute, the old and new dates are written to the ledger before the old one is overwritten. - Moves of one launch on the same UTC day are combined into one row. Positive sizes are slips later; negative sizes moved earlier. - Each move is classified by how precisely both dates were known. A slip means both dates were known to the day or better and the launch moved a day or more later; a day or more earlier is a pull-in, and a move of under a day either way is an adjustment. - A placeholder date (a launch listed only as "NET 2026" or "NET Q4") rolling to another placeholder, firming into a real date, or loosening back into one is recorded but never counted as a slip. Only real slips count toward delays and provider figures. - Recording began on 29 August 2026. Launch Library 2 keeps no revision history, so earlier moves cannot be backfilled. Provider figures appear only after 25 real slips. - Sources: Our own record of Launch Library 2 date changes. - Refresh: Every 15 minutes, with each launch sync. - Slip Explorer: https://spacenexus.us/launch-slips - How slips are classified: https://spacenexus.us/launch-slips/method - [Launch Cadence Index](https://spacenexus.us/methodology#launch-cadence): Launches flown this year against the same date last year, by provider and country. - Counts launches that flew (completed or failed, with a named rocket) from 1 January last year. Scrubs are not attempts. - Both years are cut at the same UTC day. Success rate is full successes divided by attempts; a partial failure counts as an attempt but not a success. - The full-year projection is the year-to-date count divided by the day of the year, times 365. - Sources: Launch Library 2 launch records in our database, backfilled to January 2025. - Refresh: Recomputed at most hourly. - Launch Cadence Index: https://spacenexus.us/launch-cadence - [Jobs counts](https://spacenexus.us/methodology#jobs): The number of open space jobs and the employers behind them. - Roles are read from employers' own public applicant-tracking boards (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday and others), from USAJOBS, and from roles posted on SpaceNexus directly. - At defense primes and other mixed employers, only roles whose title names space work are kept. - A posting closes when it is gone after a complete read of its board. A failed read never removes jobs; a board that keeps failing has its listings expired after 7 days. - The headline counts active postings and the distinct companies behind them. The same company, title and location from a second source is skipped. - Sources: Employer applicant-tracking boards, USAJOBS and direct postings. - Refresh: Daily: boards at 06:30 UTC, Workday boards at 06:50, USAJOBS at 07:05. - Every employer we track: https://spacenexus.us/jobs#coverage - Jobs: https://spacenexus.us/jobs - [Hiring Index and hiring trends](https://spacenexus.us/methodology#hiring-index): How space hiring is moving, month by month and week by week. - Each day at 07:45 UTC we store every company's count of active jobs, plus site-wide totals. History begins 13 August 2026. - The monthly index reports active postings at month end, new postings dated in the month, and movers among companies with at least 5 open roles. A same-employer panel keeps coverage changes from moving the index. - Hiring trends compare each company's latest count with its count about 30 days earlier, for companies with at least 5 active jobs. A company with no earlier count is left out rather than shown as zero. - When a company's counting rule changes, its series restarts on that date. - Sources: Daily snapshots of our jobs data. - Refresh: Snapshots daily; the index monthly. - Hiring Index and its method: https://spacenexus.us/hiring-index - Hiring trends: https://spacenexus.us/hiring-trends - [Satellite passes and the satellite map](https://spacenexus.us/methodology#satellite-passes): When the ISS and other satellites cross your sky, and whether you can see them. - Orbital elements come from CelesTrak in OMM format (the old two-line format ran out of 5-digit catalogue numbers on 11 July 2026). - Positions are propagated with a simplified model (Kepler's equation plus the main drift of the orbit caused by Earth's shape), stepped every 30 seconds over the next 24 hours. It is good for spotting, not for pointing instruments. - A pass counts as visible only when, at its peak, the Sun is at least 6 degrees below your horizon and the satellite is in sunlight. Elements older than 30 days are treated as stale. - Sources: CelesTrak general-perturbations elements. - Refresh: Elements cached up to 6 hours; pass alerts checked every 10 minutes. - ISS passes tonight: https://spacenexus.us/tonight - What's overhead: https://spacenexus.us/whats-overhead - Satellite tracker: https://spacenexus.us/satellites - [Space weather and aurora](https://spacenexus.us/methodology#space-weather): Kp index, solar wind, flare outlook and aurora forecast. - Kp, real-time solar wind, the 3-day flare probability outlook and the aurora model come from NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center. The flare log adds NASA DONKI and GOES X-ray data. - We store the NOAA data and show it as published; we do not model it ourselves. - Sources: NOAA SWPC, NASA DONKI, GOES. - Refresh: NOAA data every 30 minutes; the flare log every 6 hours. - Space weather now: https://spacenexus.us/space-weather - Aurora forecast: https://spacenexus.us/aurora-forecast - [Race to the Moon tracker](https://spacenexus.us/methodology#moon-race): Who leads on demonstrated lunar milestones: the United States or China. - Two goals, a crewed landing and a permanent presence, each with an 8-rung ladder of milestones. Credit is the sum of rung levels, all weighted equally. - A rung that needs several elements scores its weakest one. A lead of one full rung or more reads as a lead; less reads as level. - There is no composite score out of 100. A separate projection uses each programme's own history of announced versus actual dates. - Sources: The SpaceNexus lunar mission database, with the evidence for each rung listed on the method page. - Refresh: Revalidated hourly; the method version is printed on the tracker. - Full Moon race method: https://spacenexus.us/moon/method - [Promise Ledger](https://spacenexus.us/methodology#promise-ledger): Dated public commitments about spaceflight by agencies, companies and executives, with the exact words, the primary source, the deadline and the outcome, scored by the same rules for everyone. - An entry is a dated public commitment about spaceflight (a launch, first flight, landing, station, constellation deployment, crewed milestone or launch cadence) by a space agency, a company or a named executive. - Every entry has the exact words, the date they were said, who said them and their role, and a link to the primary source: the speaker's own post, video (with a timestamp), release, filing or transcript. A paraphrase or a news report of what someone said is not enough; those candidates are left out. - The same rules apply to every agency, company and person. Entries are listed by deadline, never by who made them or how they turned out. - The date said is the date printed on the source. Posts on X and Telegram are dated in UTC. A dead page is linked through an archived copy of the same dated page. - What is included: - Each programme milestone enters the ledger at its earliest dated public commitment we can find in a primary source, for governments and companies alike. Later dated commitments for the same milestone are shown on that one entry as a revision chain, oldest first, rather than as separate entries. - This first release is a selection, not a census. A short record is not a complete record: an organisation with few entries has not been checked less kindly, only less often. Verified entries are never dropped to balance the counts; balance comes from applying this rule to everyone. - Statuses: - Pending: the deadline has not passed. - Met: it happened on or before the deadline. - Met late: it happened after the deadline; the row says how many days after. - Missed: the deadline passed without it, confirmed by a person against a source. - Came due, not met (awaiting confirmation): set automatically the day after a pending deadline passes, until a person checks the outcome. It is counted on its own, never folded into missed. - Revised: the date or the quantity was moved before it came due, by a qualifying revision. The revision is quoted from its own source, and the latest date in the chain is scored the same way as any other. - Withdrawn: the goal was dropped publicly, or the programme was cancelled, with a source. - Condition not met: the words named a specific, checkable external condition (for example, "following a successful flight") that did not happen. It is not counted as missed. - Not scored (a ceiling, not a target): the words set a ceiling ("up to 100 flights"), so falling short of it is not scored as missed. - Revisions: - A revision counts if it comes from the speaker or, through an official dated channel, from the organisation they spoke for or a co-signatory. Undated pages dated only by an archive capture never qualify. A revision must be public before the deadline day. - A launch scrub on the day is an outcome, not a revision: the launch is scored against the original date (met late when it lifts off later), as in the Launch Ledger's 24-hour rule. - A later statement that repeats the date, or narrows it within the same period, is a restatement, not a revision: the original is still scored against its own date. - For a revised entry, lateness is measured against the latest date in the chain, never against a superseded date. - Deadlines: - Each deadline is recorded as stated and normalised to the latest day the words allow, so every speaker gets the same benefit of the doubt. - An exact date: that day (UTC). - A month: its last day. - A quarter: its last day, by the organisation's own fiscal calendar where it says fiscal (JAXA and ISRO fiscal years end on March 31). - "First half" or "early" a year: June 30. "Second half", "late", "end of", "by" or "in" a year: December 31. "Mid" a year: September 30. - A year ("in 2026", "by 2026", "around 2026", "2026"): December 31 of that year. A fiscal year: its last day by the organisation's own calendar (March 31 for JAXA and ISRO). - A northern season: spring June 30, summer September 30, fall December 31. - "In N months" or "in N years": the date said plus N, rounded up to the end of that month. - A named launch window: the last day of the window as published by an authoritative source. - "No earlier than" dates are targets: they are normalised the same way, marked NET on the row, and worded as a target. - Wording is recorded as a commitment ("will"), a target ("targeting", "plan", "expect", "no earlier than") or a possibility ("as early as", "could"), and shown next to the status. All three are scored the same way. - Conditions: - Only a specific, checkable external condition counts as a condition. Standard readiness caveats ("pending completion of test, certification and readiness activities") are not conditions: those entries are scored like any other. - What counts as met, by kind of claim: - Launch: The named mission lifts off. A launch that lifts off counts even if the mission is later lost; the row says what happened. - First flight: The vehicle makes its first lift-off attempt. The row says whether it reached its planned orbit or trajectory. - Reaching orbit: The vehicle or spacecraft reaches orbit. A lift-off that does not reach orbit is not enough. - Landing: The lander makes a soft landing on the body. 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