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    "retrievedAt": "2026-10-24T19:03:18.362182+00:00",
    "sourceLastUpdated": "2026 Oct12 2136:56",
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        "Year": "2025",
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      "Attempts, not satellites, payload mass, scientific achievement, launch reliability or successful missions",
      "Includes failures and selected near-orbital tests; native interpolation is illustrative",
      "Country classification follows McDowell; Electron from Mahia counted New Zealand, not USA; Russian launches abroad remain Russian",
      "Only complete calendar years, excludes partial2026; since2000 is not all-time",
      "Current raw table revises USA2024 from145 in Feb2026 paper to144; latest table used throughout"
    ]
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      "author": "NASA/Keegan Barber",
      "date": "2024-09-28",
      "description": "A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov onboard, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission is the ninth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Hague and Gorbunov launched at 1:17 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin a six month mission aboard the orbital outpost. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)",
      "rights": "NASA federal photograph; generally not subject to US copyright; informational/editorial use under NASA Image and Media Usage Guidelines. No endorsement implied.",
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  "rights": "Data: Jonathan C. McDowell, GCAT, CC BY4.0. Selection and cumulative transformation by ChartGlow; no endorsement. Background: NASA/Keegan Barber, Crew-9 launch28September2024; NASA Image and Media Usage Guidelines, federal photograph generally not copyrighted in the US. National flags from Flagcdn; no generated imagery."
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