Japan Launch Tracker
As of 21 October 2026, Japan has flown 4 of the 248 orbital launch attempts in 2026, 2% of the world's launches, and 146 since its first in 1966. Its latest launches and the next ones on the schedule, drawn to scale.
Data as of October 2026 · Launch Library 2 (The Space Devs), checked against Jonathan McDowell's GCAT · Updated as launches happen. Methods
Latest mission
Planetary Science
H3-24
Oct 19, 2026
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' H3 F10 (H3-24) launched JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft from Tanegashima, with spacecraft separation confirmed about 71 minutes after liftoff. MMX is the first mission to sample Phobos and return material to Earth, carrying the DLR/CNES Idefix rover.
Next mission
Drawing unavailable
No upcoming mission scheduled.
Statistics summary
Payload to orbit
2026 so far
11 t
vs 8 t by this date in 2025
Last 7 days
4 t
vs 0.5 t weekly avg. over 365 days
Past launches
Every Japan launch scheduled for the next seven days, in UTC.
No Japan launch is scheduled in the next seven days.
Japan in 2026
Orbital launch attempts added up, Japan and the rest of the world, 2026 so far
Day by day since 1 January.
Orbital launch attempts per week, Japan and the rest of the world, the past 12 months
Payload delivered to orbit by Japan, year against year, 2023 to 2026
Tonnes, added up through each year.
The record
- Share in 2026
- 2%
- so far
- Launches in 2026
- 4
- of 248 worldwide
- Share in 2025
- 1%
- 4 launches
- All time
- 146
- since 1966
Orbital launch attempts per year, Japan and the rest of the world, 1966 to today
2026 so far, as of 21 October 2026.
Japan's rockets in 2026
Launch success rate by Japan rocket, 1966 to today
Test flights are left out; partial failures count as failures.
Every year
| Year | Japan | World | Japan share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 4 | 248 | 2% |
| 2025 | 4 | 329 | 1% |
| 2024 | 7 | 263 | 3% |
| 2023 | 3 | 223 | 1% |
| 2022 | 1 | 186 | 1% |
| 2021 | 3 | 146 | 2% |
| 2020 | 4 | 114 | 4% |
| 2019 | 2 | 102 | 2% |
| 2018 | 6 | 114 | 5% |
| 2017 | 7 | 90 | 8% |
| 2016 | 4 | 85 | 5% |
| 2015 | 4 | 87 | 5% |
| 2014 | 4 | 92 | 4% |
| 2013 | 3 | 81 | 4% |
| 2012 | 2 | 78 | 3% |
| 2011 | 3 | 84 | 4% |
| 2010 | 2 | 74 | 3% |
| 2009 | 3 | 78 | 4% |
| 2008 | 1 | 69 | 1% |
| 2007 | 2 | 68 | 3% |
| 2006 | 6 | 66 | 9% |
| 2005 | 2 | 56 | 4% |
| 2004 | 0 | 54 | 0% |
| 2003 | 3 | 63 | 5% |
| 2002 | 3 | 65 | 5% |
| 2001 | 1 | 59 | 2% |
| 2000 | 1 | 85 | 1% |
| 1999 | 1 | 78 | 1% |
| 1998 | 2 | 82 | 2% |
| 1997 | 2 | 89 | 2% |
| 1996 | 1 | 77 | 1% |
| 1995 | 2 | 80 | 3% |
| 1994 | 2 | 93 | 2% |
| 1993 | 1 | 83 | 1% |
| 1992 | 1 | 97 | 1% |
| 1991 | 2 | 91 | 2% |
| 1990 | 3 | 121 | 2% |
| 1989 | 2 | 102 | 2% |
| 1988 | 2 | 121 | 2% |
| 1987 | 3 | 114 | 3% |
| 1986 | 2 | 110 | 2% |
| 1985 | 2 | 125 | 2% |
| 1984 | 3 | 129 | 2% |
| 1983 | 3 | 129 | 2% |
| 1982 | 1 | 129 | 1% |
| 1981 | 3 | 126 | 2% |
| 1980 | 2 | 108 | 2% |
| 1979 | 2 | 110 | 2% |
| 1978 | 3 | 128 | 2% |
| 1977 | 2 | 130 | 2% |
| 1976 | 2 | 131 | 2% |
| 1975 | 2 | 132 | 2% |
| 1974 | 1 | 113 | 1% |
| 1973 | 0 | 116 | 0% |
| 1972 | 1 | 113 | 1% |
| 1971 | 2 | 133 | 2% |
| 1970 | 2 | 124 | 2% |
| 1969 | 1 | 125 | 1% |
| 1968 | 0 | 128 | 0% |
| 1967 | 1 | 139 | 1% |
| 1966 | 2 | 131 | 2% |