Category
Space Expansion
Launch capacity, humans beyond Earth and progress toward independently survivable worlds.
- Metrics
- 5
- Headline
- 2
- Last ingestion
- 2026-10-19 00:20 UTC
Headline metrics, each in its default geography
Headline metric
Independently survivable human worlds
Derived
Number of worlds where a human population could sustain itself indefinitely with no resupply from Earth.
1worlds
period 2026World
no earlier period to compare1yno earlier period to compare10y CAGR
Headline metric
Orbital launch attempts
Observed
Orbital launch attempts per year worldwide: every rocket that lifted off aiming for orbit, whether or not it succeeded.
324launches
period 2025World
improving+24.62%1yno earlier period to compare10y CAGR
Other metrics, each in its default geography
Space Expansion
Humans launched to orbit
Observed
People launched on orbital flights per year, counted from the crew list of each launch.
28people
period 2025World
no change0.00%1yno earlier period to compare10y CAGR
Space Expansion
Orbital launch attempts by provider country
Observed
Orbital launch attempts per year attributed to the country of the launch service provider, not the launch site.
324launches
period 2025World
contextual+24.62%1yno earlier period to compare10y CAGR
Space Expansion
Successful orbital launches
Observed
Orbital launches per year that Launch Library 2 records as successful (payload reached its intended orbit).
315launches
period 2025World
improving+24.51%1yno earlier period to compare10y CAGR