I'm John Batch, the Hotel Mars, with my colleague and co-host and co-pilot David Livingston.

He keeps the space show, and we turn to where we've been, 2025 launch, and where we're going,

2026 launch. And to summarize and explain, we welcome Douglas Messier, who keeps the highly

recommended substack page, Douglas Messier. And right now I'm looking, first

of all, how we did in 25. Doug, a very good evening to you. 25 was a banner year. How big? Good

evening to you. Yeah, good evening. It was a big year for launches. There were 325 orbital launch attempts worldwide.

That broke down to a launch every 27 hours.

And the U.S. had 193 of those launches.

China had 93.

And they accounted for 88% of all launches last year.

And there were two companies in these countries that accounted for 72% of all global launches.

That was SpaceX, which launched 165 times to orbit and five times with suborbital starship launches.

And the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, which is Cask, and they launched

68 times. So that's the two companies accounted for 72% of all launches last year.

David, you have a question about where we've been.

Yeah, I'm curious to know what the primary market is for all these launches.

Are they, I know you're counting launches for government, or are these mostly primarily

government missions?

It's a mix of things.

Globally, there were 159 launches out of the 325.

That's almost 49 percent.

We're for six commercial and government large constellations.

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