Wenchang Launch Tracker
As of 23 October 2026, 20 of the 249 orbital launch attempts in 2026 lifted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, 8% of the world's launches, after 21 in 2025 and 9 in 2024, and 75 since the first in 2016. The next launch from Wenchang is a Long March 8A, scheduled for 25 October 2026 at 01:50 AM UTC from Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China. The latest launches from Wenchang and the next ones on the schedule, drawn to scale.
Latest mission
Communications
Long March 12
Oct 9, 2026
A Long March 12 from Hainan's commercial LC-2 placed SatNet (Guowang) LEO Group 27 internet satellites into their planned orbit. Xinhua confirmed the spacecraft reached the intended trajectory and the mission succeeded; it was CZ-12's fifth flight of 2026 after Groups 19, 22, 24 and 25 from the same pad.
Next mission
Unknown Payload
Long March 8A
Oct 25, 2026 · 01:50 AM (UTC)
Liftoff in 2 d 01 h 08 min 46 s
A Long March 8A from Wenchang Commercial LC-1 will place SatNet LEO Group 28, nine China Satellite Network Guowang broadband satellites, into low Earth orbit. The flight continues CASC's internet-constellation campaign from Hainan's commercial pad, matching the nine-satellite stacks flown on recent Long March 8A SatNet missions.
Statistics summary
Wenchang launches
2026 so far
20
vs 13 by this date in 2025
Last 7 days
0
vs 0.5 weekly avg. over 365 days
Payload to orbit
2026 so far
112 t
vs 95 t by this date in 2025
Last 7 days
0 t
vs 2.9 t weekly avg. over 365 days
Every Wenchang launch scheduled for the next seven days, in UTC.
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Wenchang in 2026
Orbital launches from Wenchang per month, 2026 so far
- 2Jan
- 0Feb
- 1Mar
- 1Apr
- 3May
- 4Jun
- 3Jul
- 3Aug
- 2Sep
- 1Oct
- Nov
- Dec
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| Month | Wenchang |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| February | 0 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
The record
- Share in 2026
- 8%
- so far
- Launches in 2026
- 20
- of 249 worldwide
- Share in 2025
- 6%
- 21 launches
- All time
- 75
- since 2016
Orbital launches from Wenchang per year, 2016 to today
2026 so far, as of 23 October 2026.
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| Year | Launches |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2023 | 4 |
| 2024 | 9 |
| 2025 | 21 |
| 2026 | 20 |
Rockets flown from Wenchang in 2026
Pads
| Pad | In 2026 | All time | Last used |
|---|---|---|---|
| 201 | 5 | 33 | 2026 |
| 101 | 1 | 18 | 2026 |
| Commercial LC-1 | 8 | 14 | 2026 |
| Commercial LC-2 | 6 | 10 | 2026 |