A live score of SpaceX against the rest of the world on launches and satellites.
Is SpaceX faster than the rest of the world combined?
On satellites — yes. On launches — still no: 118 against 125 for everyone else.
What it means. Two of every three working satellites are Starlink. But SpaceX is still just under half of the world’s launches this year: 118 against 125 for everyone else. The two answers do not agree, and that is the page.
19 Oct, 10:30 UTC from Florida. 32 customer satellites on one rocket. Weather is only 55%: wind and clouds may push it.
20 Oct, 22:14 UTC from California. 27 internet satellites. The booster will be flying for the 36th time.
24 Oct, 05:29 UTC, also from California. Another 27 satellites, on a booster’s 26th flight.
Flight 15 has no public launch time yet. It is not earlier than November. Until SpaceX names a clock, this is not a countdown.
37 means this one booster has launched 37 times. The company once told investors a booster would be written off after 25. Engineers now say 40 is realistic. Discovery, the most-flown space shuttle, flew 39.
67% means two of every three working satellites are Starlink. The line above is that share since 6 July: it has barely moved. The bars are how many satellites from each launch year are still up. 2026 is still being filled.
Counting satellites and weighing them are different. Starlink is 67% of the pieces, but 54% of the weight, because many other satellites are heavier. In the lowest orbits the weight share is 83%. These weights are Jonathan McDowell’s, last published 30 September.
An attempt is a rocket that tried to reach orbit, success or not. SpaceX is just under half of the world’s attempts this year. China is a distant second. This launch count is a cut through 18 October, after USSF-481. No orbital launch since. It does not refresh from the browser, because the launch catalog limits how often it can be asked.
Warm means done. Cold means missed. An empty ring means partial. On 28 September Starship reached orbit for the first time and released 26 satellites. It did not try to catch the booster, and the ship itself came down earlier than planned. Flying both parts again is still open.
These are the next-largest internet constellations. The bars are scaled to OneWeb, the biggest of the four, not to Starlink. Starlink is about 17 times OneWeb.
Each pair is one week. Warm is new Starlink satellites. Cold is new satellites from everyone else. If the cold bar is taller, the rest of the world added more that week, which is why the share can fall even while Starlink grows.
Starlink is 67% of every working satellite. That share has sat near 67% since July. The number of Starlink satellites is still rising. The share is not, because the rest of the world is adding satellites too.
Daily catalog from 6 July to 18 October. Rounded, the share stayed at 67% the whole way. Latest catalog: 18 Oct, 08:09 UTC.