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🇮🇱Israel Launch History

Every orbital and deep-space launch attempt attributed to Israel, year by year, drawn from the GCAT launch catalog. Country is the launching state of the pad.

Data current as of 2026-07-20.

Israel made 13 orbital and deep-space launch attempts between 1988 and 2025. Of those, 11 succeeded and 2 failed. The success rate comes to 85 percent. The busiest year was 1988, with 1 launch. The most recent launch in the catalog was in 2025.

13
Launch attempts
11
Successes
2
Failures
85%
Success rate

Launches per year

1 1988: 1 launch (1 success, 0 failures) 1989: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 1990: 1 launch (1 success, 0 failures) 1991: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 1992: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 1993: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 1994: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 1995: 1 launch (1 success, 0 failures) 1996: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 1997: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 1998: 1 launch (0 successes, 1 failure) 1999: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2000: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2001: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2002: 1 launch (1 success, 0 failures) 2003: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2004: 1 launch (0 successes, 1 failure) 2005: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2006: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2007: 1 launch (1 success, 0 failures) 2008: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2009: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2010: 1 launch (1 success, 0 failures) 2011: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2012: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2013: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2014: 1 launch (1 success, 0 failures) 2015: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2016: 1 launch (1 success, 0 failures) 2017: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2018: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2019: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2020: 1 launch (1 success, 0 failures) 2021: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2022: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2023: 1 launch (1 success, 0 failures) 2024: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2025: 1 launch (1 success, 0 failures) 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008 2013 2018 2023
Successes Failures Each bar links to that year's full chronology.

Year by year

Year Attempts Successes Failures Success rate
2025 1 1 0 100%
2023 1 1 0 100%
2020 1 1 0 100%
2016 1 1 0 100%
2014 1 1 0 100%
2010 1 1 0 100%
2007 1 1 0 100%
2004 1 0 1 0%
2002 1 1 0 100%
1998 1 0 1 0%
1995 1 1 0 100%
1990 1 1 0 100%
1988 1 1 0 100%

Launch sites

Counts for each GCAT launch site attributed to Israel.

Site code Site Launches Successes Failures First year Last year
PALB Palmachim Air Base 13 11 2 1988 2025

Recent launches

The most recent launches attributed to Israel, newest first.

Date Designator Payloads Vehicle Site / Pad Outcome
Sep 2, 2025 2025-193 13 : 'Ofeq-19 Shavit 2 PALB Success
Mar 28, 2023 2023-044 12 : 'Ofeq-13 Shavit 2 PALB / PALB - Success
Jul 6, 2020 2020-044 11 : 'Ofeq-16 Shavit 2 PALB / PALB - Success
Sep 13, 2016 2016-056 10 : 'Ofeq-11 Shavit 2 PALB / PALB - Success
Apr 9, 2014 2014-019 9 : TecSAR-3 Shavit 2 PALB / PALB - Success
Jun 22, 2010 2010-031 8 : 'Ofeq-9 Shavit 2 PALB / PALB - Success
Jun 10, 2007 2007-025 7 : 'Ofeq-7 Shavit 2 PALB / PALB - Success
Sep 6, 2004 2004-F01 6 : 'Ofeq-6 Shavit 1 PALB / PALB - Failure
May 28, 2002 2002-025 5 : 'Ofeq-5 Shavit 1 PALB / PALB - Success
Jan 22, 1998 1998-F01 4 : EROS A Shavit 1 PALB / PALB - Failure
Apr 5, 1995 1995-018 3 : 'Ofeq-3 Shavit 1 PALB / PALB - Success
Apr 3, 1990 1990-027 2 : 'Ofeq-2 Shavit PALB / PALB - Success
Sep 19, 1988 1988-087 1 : 'Ofeq-1 Shavit PALB / PALB - Success
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