CAPE CANAVERAL—Led by SpaceX, the number of orbital launch attempts last year rose by 20% over 2022, with 223 missions attempted and 212 reaching orbit, according to statistics compiled by Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist who maintains a database of worldwide astronautical...
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