Every rocket launch ever, visualized.
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Done, you can now drag the rocket timeline (in the past and the future) on the home page of @FlightAtlas
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Every single rocket launch in history: 1958
Explorer 1 puts the United States in orbit and leads to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts. Vanguard 1 becomes the first solar-powered satellite, and NASA begins operating in October.
First of 70 posts, one for every year between Sputnik and now:
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After 18 months of work, FlightAtlas.org now has a drawing for every rocket launch in history.
To celebrate I'll post 70 visual launch overviews over the next month, one for every year from 1957 to 2026 (~2 per day).
Hope you guys enjoy!
New dark mode on FlightAtlas.org
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New milestone unlocked: @FlightAtlas made it to China’s Bloomberg.
“Flight Atlas, an overseas space data platform”
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Last 50 rockets launched in the world, with their max theoretical payload capacity shown next to them
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Improvements coming to @FlightAtlas soon with redesigned rockets, including for older years
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Every rocket launched in 2026 so far, chronically and to scale.
(Tintin rocket is for when I don’t have a drawing ready yet)
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This is every rocket launched by SpaceX in 2025.
To get an idea of the scale of what Elon is saying just imagine this but replace the “tiny” Falcon 9s (still one of the world’s most power rockets) by giant Starships
If you like this kind of infographic, go check out flightatlas.org
Let me know what I should add to the website!
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It’s a close race but so far in 2026 SpaceX has launched more rockets than the rest of the world (including other US) combined.
And they also launch a lot more mass to orbit with every launch.
