of course America is the only country to have orbital capabilities no one else does right
1 Soviet Union[c] Sputnik 1 Sputnik-PS Baikonur, Soviet Union (today Kazakhstan) 4 October 1957
2 United States[d] Explorer 1 Juno I Cape Canaveral, United States 1 February 1958
3 France[f] Astérix Diamant A Hammaguir, Algeria 26 November 1965
4 Japan Ōsumi Lambda-4S Uchinoura, Japan 11 February 1970
5 China Dong Fang Hong I Long March 1 Jiuquan, China 24 April 1970
6 United Kingdom[g] Prospero Black Arrow Woomera, Australia 28 October 1971
— European Space Agency[h] CAT-1 Ariane 1 Kourou, French Guiana 24 December 1979
7 India Rohini D1 SLV Sriharikota, India 18 July 1980
8 Israel Ofeq 1 Shavit Palmachim, Israel 19 September 1988
— Ukraine[c] Strela-3 (x6, Russian) Tsyklon-3 Plesetsk, Russia 28 September 1991
— Russia[c] Kosmos 2175 Soyuz-U Plesetsk, Russia 21 January 1992
9 Iran [j] Omid Safir-1A Semnan, Iran 2 February 2009
10 North Korea Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2 Unha-3 Sohae, North Korea 12 December 2012
I copied that off Wikipedia and the woomera test site is open for rocket launches by the general public not everything is american