KCST Launch Tracker
As of 21 October 2026, KCST has flown 0 of the 248 orbital launch attempts in 2026, 0% of the world's launches, and 1 since its first in 1998. 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
Test Flight
Paektusan 1
Aug 31, 1998
North Korea's first attempted satellite launch, using the three-stage Paektusan (Taepodong-1) rocket from Musudan-ri; Pyongyang claimed the Kwangmyongsong-1 satellite reached orbit, but no object was ever tracked and the third stage is assessed to have failed.
Next mission
Drawing unavailable
No upcoming mission scheduled.
Statistics summary
Payload to orbit
2026 so far
0 t
vs 0 t by this date in 2025
Last 7 days
0 t
vs 0.0 t weekly avg. over 365 days
Past launches
Every KCST launch scheduled for the next seven days, in UTC.
No KCST launch is scheduled in the next seven days.
KCST in 2026
Orbital launch attempts added up, KCST and the rest of the world, 2026 so far
Day by day since 1 January.
Orbital launch attempts per week, KCST and the rest of the world, the past 12 months
Payload delivered to orbit by KCST, year against year, 2023 to 2026
Tonnes, added up through each year.
The record
- Share in 2026
- 0%
- so far
- Launches in 2026
- 0
- of 248 worldwide
- Share in 2025
- 0%
- 0 launches
- All time
- 1
- since 1998
Orbital launch attempts per year, KCST and the rest of the world, 1998 to today
2026 so far, as of 21 October 2026.
Launch success rate by KCST rocket, 1998 to today
Test flights are left out; partial failures count as failures.
Every year
| Year | KCST | World | KCST share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 0 | 248 | 0% |
| 2025 | 0 | 329 | 0% |
| 2024 | 0 | 263 | 0% |
| 2023 | 0 | 223 | 0% |
| 2022 | 0 | 186 | 0% |
| 2021 | 0 | 146 | 0% |
| 2020 | 0 | 114 | 0% |
| 2019 | 0 | 102 | 0% |
| 2018 | 0 | 114 | 0% |
| 2017 | 0 | 90 | 0% |
| 2016 | 0 | 85 | 0% |
| 2015 | 0 | 87 | 0% |
| 2014 | 0 | 92 | 0% |
| 2013 | 0 | 81 | 0% |
| 2012 | 0 | 78 | 0% |
| 2011 | 0 | 84 | 0% |
| 2010 | 0 | 74 | 0% |
| 2009 | 0 | 78 | 0% |
| 2008 | 0 | 69 | 0% |
| 2007 | 0 | 68 | 0% |
| 2006 | 0 | 66 | 0% |
| 2005 | 0 | 56 | 0% |
| 2004 | 0 | 54 | 0% |
| 2003 | 0 | 63 | 0% |
| 2002 | 0 | 65 | 0% |
| 2001 | 0 | 59 | 0% |
| 2000 | 0 | 85 | 0% |
| 1999 | 0 | 78 | 0% |
| 1998 | 1 | 82 | 1% |