This period closed before the release began publishing on a calendar. The figures are computed from the same tables, but this is a back-calculation rather than what we would have published at the time. Scheduled editions begin with 2026-08.
Launch attempts
30
+11 vs February 2026
Outcomes
29 / 1
96.7% success rate this month
Year to date
74
+3 vs the same point in 2025
Manifest changes observed
Not recorded
The slip ledger starts 2026-08-29
Attempts by provider
Every provider with a recorded launch attempt in the month, with outcomes and share of the month.
Attempts by provider. Every provider with a recorded launch attempt in the month, with outcomes and share of the month. 9 rows.
#
Provider
Attempts
Successes
Failures
Share of month
1
SpaceX
15
15
0
+50.0%
2
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
5
5
0
+16.7%
3
Rocket Lab
3
3
0
+10.0%
4
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
2
Attempts by vehicle
Launch vehicles flown in the month, by attempts.
Attempts by vehicle. Launch vehicles flown in the month, by attempts. Showing the first 10 of 13 rows.
#
Vehicle
Attempts
Successes
Failures
1
Falcon 9 Block 5
15
15
0
2
Electron
3
3
0
3
Long March 2D
2
2
0
4
Firefly Alpha
1
1
0
5
Kii-based Advanced & Instant ROcket System
1
0
Launches behind these tables
Every recorded launch attempt in the month, in date order. This is the row set the tables above are computed from.
Launches behind these tables. Every recorded launch attempt in the month, in date order. This is the row set the tables above are computed from. Showing the first 10 of 30 rows.
Date
Mission
Provider
Vehicle
Outcome
Site
2026-03-01
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-23
SpaceX
Falcon 9 Block 5
success
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
2026-03-02
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-41
SpaceX
Falcon 9 Block 5
success
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
2026-03-04
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-40
SpaceX
Falcon 9 Block 5
success
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
2026-03-05
KAIROS | Flight 3
Space One
Kii-based Advanced & Instant ROcket System
failure
Manifest changes observed in the month
The slip ledger began recording on 2026-08-29, after this month ended. There is nothing to report, which is different from nothing having happened.
Nothing to report in this table for this edition. An empty table here means we recorded nothing, not that nothing happened.
Schedule movement by provider
Held back until the month's ledger holds at least 25 observations. This month holds 0, and a rate computed from that many would not mean anything.
Nothing to report in this table for this edition. An empty table here means we recorded nothing, not that nothing happened.
Vehicles not currently flying
From the hand-maintained vehicle status sheet. Each row carries the date the entry was last checked, so a stale sheet is visible rather than silently trusted.
Vehicles not currently flying. From the hand-maintained vehicle status sheet. Each row carries the date the entry was last checked, so a stale sheet is visible rather than silently trusted. 5 rows.
Vehicle
Standing
Where it stands
Sheet as of
Days since checked
Neutron
development
Rocket Lab's reusable medium-lift rocket, ~13,000 kg to LEO; first flight targeted late 2026.
2026-09-06
9
New Glenn
grounded
Grounded while Launch Complex 36 is rebuilt after the May 28, 2026 static-fire explosion; return to flight targeted before the end of 2026.
2026-09-06
9
New Shepard
paused
Paused since January 30, 2026 for at least two years while Blue Origin puts its people on the Blue Moon lunar lander; not selling seats.
2026-09-06
9
SpaceShipTwo (VSS Unity)
retired
Retired after Galactic 06 in January 2024; Virgin Galactic's Delta-class successors are targeted for commercial service from Q4 2026, with seats on sale at $750,000 since April 2026.
Methodology
•Launch counts come from the SpaceEvent table, restricted to rows carrying a Launch Library 2 identifier and a terminal outcome (completed or failed). Curated seed events, which are not launches, are excluded by identifier shape.
•A launch is attributed to the month its launch date falls in, in UTC.
•"Attempts" counts every launch that left the pad and reached a recorded outcome. Success rate is successes divided by attempts for that month; a month with no attempts reports no rate rather than zero.
•Provider is the agency recorded on the launch row as Launch Library spells it; no provider names are merged or renamed.
•Slip figures come from the LaunchDateChange ledger, which records every manifest date move we observe. The ledger starts on 2026-08-29 and cannot be backfilled by anyone, us included — Launch Library exposes no revision history. Months before that date report launches without slips, and the page says so.
•Per-provider slip statistics appear only once the ledger holds enough observations to be worth reporting; below that threshold the section states the count instead of publishing a rate.
What this edition can and cannot see
Coverage limits travel with the numbers, here and in every export of them.
•This edition counts 30 launch attempts recorded for March 2026 — rows carrying a Launch Library identifier and a terminal outcome. Scrubbed and still-upcoming launches are not attempts and are not counted.
•Launch counts describe our tracker. A month our launch history does not reach reports zero attempts, which is why every edition prints the count rather than only a rate.
•Schedule movement is not available for this month: the ledger began recording on 2026-08-29, after the month ended.
•Per-provider slip statistics are withheld this month: 0 observations is below the 25 needed for a rate to mean anything.
•No manifest changes were observed inside this month.
•No figure on this page is a forecast. This release publishes the record; it does not project cadence.
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2
0
+6.7%
5
CAS Space
1
1
0
+3.3%
6
China Rocket Co. Ltd.
1
1
0
+3.3%
7
ExPace
1
1
0
+3.3%
8
Firefly Aerospace
1
1
0
+3.3%
9
Space One
1
0
1
+3.3%
Provider names are as Launch Library records them; no names are merged, so a group launching under two recorded names appears twice.
1
6
Kinetica 2
1
1
0
7
Kuaizhou 11
1
1
0
8
Long March 2C/YZ-1S
1
1
0
9
Long March 6A
1
1
0
10
Long March 8A
1
1
0
Showing the first 10 of 13 rows. 3 more in this table, plus every column the display leaves out.
Spaceport Kii, Japan
2026-03-05
Electron | Insight At Speed Is A Friend Indeed (BlackSky Gen-3 4)
Rocket Lab
Electron
success
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
2026-03-08
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-18
SpaceX
Falcon 9 Block 5
success
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
2026-03-10
Falcon 9 Block 5 | EchoStar 25
SpaceX
Falcon 9 Block 5
success
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
2026-03-12
Firefly Alpha | Stairway to Seven
Firefly Aerospace
Firefly Alpha
success
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
2026-03-12
Long March 8A | SatNet LEO Group 20
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Long March 8A
success
Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
2026-03-12
Long March 2D | Shiyan 30 03-04
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Long March 2D
success
Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Showing the first 10 of 30 rows. 20 more in this table, plus every column the display leaves out.
2026-09-06
9
Terran R
development
Relativity Space's reusable medium-lift rocket, in development; no first flight on the manifest.
2026-09-06
9
Standings are editorial fact-keeping, not computed from the tracker. They are the one hand-maintained input on this page and they are labelled as such.
•Vehicle standings are read from the hand-maintained vehicle status sheet, each entry carrying its own as-of date, which is printed.