NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Government / agency (United States), launches, rockets and satellites

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175Orbital launches

3,574All launches (incl. suborbital)

86Satellites in orbit

67Satellites built

0Rockets / spacecraft

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is a government organisation based in the United States, founded in 1959. Our records show 175 orbital launches and 86 satellites in orbit.

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Satellites in orbit

By platform

Tiros	6
TDRS	6
Nimbus	6
Leostar-2	4
BCP-2000	4
HS-306	3
HS-601	3
HS-301	3

Recent launches

Date	Mission	Vehicle	Site	Result
22 Oct 2026	DUST III	Black Brant IX	PF	Success
20 Oct 2026	INFUSE II	Black Brant IX	PF	Success
24 Jun 2026	Rocksat-X/RockOn	Terrier Imp Malemute	WI	Success
14 May 2026	FOXSI-5	Black Brant IX	PF	Success
11 Mar 2026	ICI-5b	Terrier Imp Malemute	AND	Success
10 Feb 2026	GNEISS 2	Black Brant IX	PF	Success
10 Feb 2026	GNEISS 1	Black Brant IX	PF	Success
9 Feb 2026	BADASS	Black Brant IX	PF	Success
30 Jan 2026	PolarNOx	Black Brant IX	PF	Success
23 Nov 2025	RENU-3	Oriole IV	AND	Success
18 Nov 2025	GHOST	Terrier Imp Malemute	AND	Success
28 Aug 2025	TOMEX+	Black Brant IX	WI	Success

In the news

Recent headlines

Curiosity Blog, Sols 5016–5021: Fantastic Minerals and How To Detect Them NASA · 30 Sep 2026
Jim Irons, Former Landsat Project Scientist, Wins Pecora Award NASA · 10 Jun 2026
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4893-4899: Drilling at Campo Marte and a Visit From the Psyche Spacecraft NASA · 19 May 2026
Measuring the Big Bang with the COBE satellite NASA · 18 Feb 2026
Sols 4525-4526: The Day After Groundhog Day (Between Ghost Mountain and Texoli, Headed South) NASA · 1 May 2025

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Provenance

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This entry merges 2 sources: Launch Library 2 · GCAT (J. McDowell)
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Launch and satellite data: Jonathan McDowell's GCAT (CC BY 4.0) and CelesTrak. Rockets, spacecraft and agencies: Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs and Wikidata. News headlines link to their publishers via the Spaceflight News API and RSS feeds. Records come from several sources and are matched automatically, so treat the directory as a research aid, not an authority. How the data is built and checked.