United Kingdom Launch Tracker
As of 21 October 2026, the United Kingdom has flown 0 of the 248 orbital launch attempts in 2026, 0% of the world's launches, and 2 since its first in 1970. 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
Black Arrow
Oct 28, 1971
Prospero (X-3), a British technology satellite testing solar cells, thermal coatings, and micrometeoroid detectors. Black Arrow from Woomera LA-5B made the UK's first and only indigenous orbital success; final Black Arrow flight and last orbital launch from Woomera.
Next mission
Drawing unavailable
No upcoming mission scheduled.
Statistics summary
United Kingdom launches
2026 so far
0
vs 0 by this date in 2025
Last 7 days
0
vs 0.0 weekly avg. over 365 days
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 United Kingdom launch scheduled for the next seven days, in UTC.
No United Kingdom launch is scheduled in the next seven days.
United Kingdom in 2026
Orbital launch attempts added up, United Kingdom and the rest of the world, 2026 so far
Day by day since 1 January.
Orbital launch attempts per week, United Kingdom and the rest of the world, the past 12 months
Payload delivered to orbit by United Kingdom, 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
- 2
- since 1970
Orbital launch attempts per year, United Kingdom and the rest of the world, 1970 to today
2026 so far, as of 21 October 2026.
Launch success rate by United Kingdom rocket, 1970 to today
Test flights are left out; partial failures count as failures.
Every year
| Year | United Kingdom | World | United Kingdom 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 | 0 | 82 | 0% |
| 1997 | 0 | 89 | 0% |
| 1996 | 0 | 77 | 0% |
| 1995 | 0 | 80 | 0% |
| 1994 | 0 | 93 | 0% |
| 1993 | 0 | 83 | 0% |
| 1992 | 0 | 97 | 0% |
| 1991 | 0 | 91 | 0% |
| 1990 | 0 | 121 | 0% |
| 1989 | 0 | 102 | 0% |
| 1988 | 0 | 121 | 0% |
| 1987 | 0 | 114 | 0% |
| 1986 | 0 | 110 | 0% |
| 1985 | 0 | 125 | 0% |
| 1984 | 0 | 129 | 0% |
| 1983 | 0 | 129 | 0% |
| 1982 | 0 | 129 | 0% |
| 1981 | 0 | 126 | 0% |
| 1980 | 0 | 108 | 0% |
| 1979 | 0 | 110 | 0% |
| 1978 | 0 | 128 | 0% |
| 1977 | 0 | 130 | 0% |
| 1976 | 0 | 131 | 0% |
| 1975 | 0 | 132 | 0% |
| 1974 | 0 | 113 | 0% |
| 1973 | 0 | 116 | 0% |
| 1972 | 0 | 113 | 0% |
| 1971 | 1 | 133 | 1% |
| 1970 | 1 | 124 | 1% |