Operator file · US-161
United States Air Force
United States Air Force is a government launch operator based in United States of America, founded in 1947. The register credits it with 1,078 launches flown under its own name — 972 successful, 106 failed, a lifetime success rate of 90.2%. It is not flying anything inside the current manifest window.
Flight record
Launch statistics
Counts are launches filed under USAF’s own name in The Space Devs’ Launch Library register. They are not a count of missions or payloads: a spacecraft that flew on a contracted vehicle is credited to the operator that flew it.
Who flies for them, and who they fly for
An operator owns the rocket and runs the count, and it is the operator’s name the launch schedule filters by. A customer funds the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. Plenty of organisations are both. USAF is counted below in whichever role the current manifest actually gives it.
Manifest role
No scheduled flight in the current window names USAF while being operated by somebody else.
How this is counted: a scheduled launch is treated as a customer flight when this organisation’s name or abbreviation appears in the launch name, mission name or programme and somebody else is flying it. Mission descriptions are not searched, and the window is one batch of the next launches worldwide, reaching to 2026-12-31 00:00:00Z — so both counts are a floor, not a complete manifest.
About USAF
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the USAF was established as a separate branch of the United States Armed Forces in 1947 with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947.
Upcoming launches
Manifest
USAF is not flying anything inside the current manifest window, which reaches to 2026-12-31 00:00:00Z. Missions appear here the moment a launch date is published.
All upcoming launches“T-0 known to” is the register’s own precision on the launch time — a date good only to the month is shown as such rather than counted down as if it were exact. A go-probability appears only where the operator published one for that flight; Delta-V does not calculate it and it is not a forecast made here.
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Common questions
- How many launches has United States Air Force flown?
- United States Air Force has 1,078 launches on record under its own name, of which 972 succeeded and 106 failed. The register counts launches flown under an operator's own name, not missions or payloads it contributed to.
- What is United States Air Force's success rate?
- United States Air Force has a lifetime launch success rate of 90.2%, calculated as 972 successful flights out of 1,078 attempts. Its current run is 68 consecutive successes.
- When is United States Air Force's next launch?
- United States Air Force is not flying anything inside Delta-V's current manifest window, which reaches to 2026-12-31 00:00:00Z.
- Does United States Air Force fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?
- United States Air Force has 1,078 launches flown under its own name in the launch register. It is not the operator on any flight in the current manifest window. An operator owns the rocket and runs the count; a customer funds the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. The operator filter on the launch schedule lists only the former, which is why a well-known agency can be central to a flight and still not appear on it.
- Where is United States Air Force based?
- United States Air Force is based in United States of America and the register classifies it as a government operator. It was founded in 1947.