SpaceX flies more than the rest of the world combined

In 2025 SpaceX carried out roughly 165 orbital launches, its sixth consecutive record-breaking year and a cadence no nation or company has ever approached — more than the rest of the world combined. The growth curve is steep: from 26 launches in 2020 to 61 in 2022 to 134 in 2024 and ~165 in 2025.

This cadence is only possible because of reusable boosters and rapid manufacturing, and it is what makes Starlink, crewed flights and national-security missions routine rather than rare events. A single private company out-launching the entire planet is one of the clearest measures of SpaceX’s dominance.

For perspective, at the height of the Space Race the entire United States managed a few dozen launches a year, and for decades a national space program flying ten times annually was considered busy. SpaceX now launches roughly every two days, recovers and reflies the boosters, and still holds a near-perfect reliability record — a combination of cadence and dependability with no precedent in the history of spaceflight, and one its competitors are years from matching.