2004 in spaceflight
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Orbital launches | |
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First | 11 January |
Last | 26 December |
Total | 54 |
Successes | 50 |
Failures | 1 |
Partial failures | 3 |
Catalogued | 53 |
Rockets | |
Maiden flights | Ariane 5G+ Delta IV Heavy Soyuz-2.1a (suborbital) |
Retirements | Ariane 5G+ Atlas IIAS Atlas IIIA Atlas V 521 |
Crewed flights | |
Orbital | 2 |
Suborbital | 3 |
Total travellers | 8 |
This article outlines notable events occurring in 2004 in spaceflight, including major launches and EVAs.
First privately funded human spaceflight
Flight 15P of SpaceShipOne (X0) was the first privately funded human spaceflight. It took place on June 21, 2004. It was the fourth powered test flight of the Tier One program, with the previous three test flights reaching much lower altitudes. The flight carried only its pilot, Mike Melvill, who thus became the first non-governmental astronaut.
First Delta IV Heavy
The first launch of the Delta IV Heavy on 21 December 2004 carried a boilerplate payload and was a partial failure. Cavitation in the liquid-oxygen propellant lines caused shutdown of both boosters eight seconds early, and the core engine nine seconds early; this resulted in a lower staging velocity for which the second stage was unable to compensate. The payload was left in a lower than intended orbit.[1]
Launches
Date and time (UTC) | Rocket | Flight number | Launch site | LSP | |||
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Payload (⚀ = CubeSat) |
Operator | Orbit | Function | Decay (UTC) | Outcome | ||
Remarks | |||||||
January | |||||||
11 January 04:13 |
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Estrela do Sul 1 (Telstar 14) | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational Partial spacecraft failure | |||
One of the payload's solar panels did not deploy, and several transponders were disabled. Its replacement, Telstar 14R, launched in 2011, suffered a similar issue. | |||||||
29 January 11:58 |
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Roskosmos | Low Earth (ISS) | Logistics | 3 June | Successful | ||
ISS flight 13P | |||||||
February | |||||||
5 February 23:46 |
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SES Americom | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
14 February 18:50 |
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US Air Force | Geosynchronous | Missile warning | In orbit | Operational | ||
18 February 07:05 |
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Molniya | Missile warning | In orbit | Operational | |||
March | |||||||
2 March 07:17 |
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ESA | Heliocentric | Comet probe | 30 September 2016 | Successful | ||
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ESA | Heliocentric | Comet lander | 9 July 2015 | Successful | ||
Maiden flight of Ariane 5G+ Studied the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and asteroids 2867 Šteins and 21 Lutetia | |||||||
13 March 05:40 |
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MBSat | MBSAT | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
Final flight of Atlas IIIA | |||||||
15 March 23:06 |
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Eutelsat | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
20 March 17:53 |
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US Air Force | Medium Earth | Navigation | In orbit | Operational | ||
27 March 03:30 |
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Russian military | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
April | |||||||
16 April 00:45 |
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SCC | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
18 April 15:59 |
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University of Harbin | Low Earth | Land resource mapping | In orbit | Operational | ||
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Tsinghua University | Low Earth | Earth imaging | In orbit | Operational | ||
19 April 03:19 |
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Roskosmos | Low Earth (ISS) | ISS Expedition 9 | 24 October | Successful | ||
Crewed orbital flight with 3 cosmonauts | |||||||
20 April 16:57 |
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NASA | Low Earth | Test Einstein's Theory of relativity | In orbit | Successful | ||
26 April 20:37 |
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RSCC | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Decommissioned[2] | ||
May | |||||||
4 May 12:42 |
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DirecTV | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
17 May 11:12 |
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CSXT | Suborbital | Test spacecraft | 17 May | Successful | ||
First amateur space launch (apogee: 116 km)[3] | |||||||
19 May 22:22 |
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SES Americom | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
20 May 17:47 |
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NSPO | Low Earth | Earth imaging | In orbit | Operational | ||
25 May 12:34 |
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Roskosmos | Low Earth (ISS) | Logistics | 30 July | Successful | ||
ISS flight 14P | |||||||
28 May 06:00 |
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VMF | Low Earth | Reconnaissance | In orbit | Operational | ||
June | |||||||
10 June 01:28 |
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VKS | Low Earth | Signals intelligence | In orbit | Operational | ||
16 June 22:27 |
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Intelsat | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
21 June 14:47 |
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Scaled Composites | Suborbital | Test spacecraft | 21 June | Successful | ||
Crewed sub-orbital flight with 1 astronaut (Mike Melvill) First privately funded crewed spaceflight Maiden flight of SpaceShipOne as a spacecraft | |||||||
23 June 22:54 |
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US Air Force | Medium Earth | Navigation | In orbit | Operational | ||
29 June 03:59 |
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Telstar 18 | Loral/Apstar | Intended: Geosynchronous Achieved: Medium Earth |
Communications | In orbit | Partial launch failure | ||
Premature cutout left payload in useless orbit | |||||||
29 June 06:30 |
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LatinSat D (AprizeSat 2) | Aprize | Low Earth | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
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CNES | Low Earth | Seismology | In orbit | Operational | ||
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RSRI | Low Earth | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
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RSRI | Low Earth | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
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RSRI | Low Earth | Earth imaging | In orbit | Operational | ||
LatinSat C (AprizeSat 1) | Aprize | Low Earth | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
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Sapienza University of Rome | Low Earth | Technology development | In orbit | Operational | ||
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AMSAT | Low Earth | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
July | |||||||
15 July 10:02 |
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NASA | Sun-synchronous (A-train) | Atmospheric research | In orbit | Operational | ||
18 July 00:44 |
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Telesat | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
22 July 17:46 |
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Low Earth | Navigation | In orbit | Operational | |||
25 July 07:05 |
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CASC/ESA | High Earth (High-eccentricity) | Magnetosphere research | In orbit | Operational | ||
August | |||||||
3 August 07:18 |
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NASA | Mercurian | Mercury probe | 30 April 2015 | Successful | ||
Became the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury on 4 April 2011 | |||||||
4 August 22:32 |
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Hispasat | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
11 August 05:03 |
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Roskosmos | Low Earth (ISS) | Logistics | 22 December | Successful | ||
ISS flight 15P | |||||||
29 August 07:50 |
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Geosynchronous | Earth imaging | 7 November 23:55 |
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31 August 23:17 |
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NRO | Geosynchronous | Classified | In orbit | Operational | ||
Final flight of Atlas IIAS | |||||||
September | |||||||
6 September 10:35 |
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Intended: Low Earth (retrograde) | Reconnaissance | T+270 | Launch failure | |||
Loss of control during third stage burn | |||||||
8 September 23:14 |
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CASC | Low Earth | Technology demonstration | In orbit | Operational | ||
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CASC | Low Earth | Technology demonstration | In orbit | Operational | ||
20 September 10:31 |
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ISRO | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
23 September 15:07 |
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Russian military | Low Earth | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
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Russian military | Low Earth | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
24 September 16:50 |
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Russian military | Low Earth | Reconnaissance | 9 January 2005 | Failure | ||
Re-entry capsule could not be located | |||||||
27 September 08:00 |
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Low Earth | Earth imaging | In orbit | Operational | |||
29 September 15:12 |
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Scaled Composites | Suborbital | Ansari X Prize qualification | 29 September | Successful | ||
Crewed sub-orbital flight with 1 astronaut (Mike Melvill) | |||||||
October | |||||||
4 October 14:49 |
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Scaled Composites | Suborbital | Ansari X Prize qualification | 4 October | Successful | ||
Crewed sub-orbital flight with 1 astronaut (Brian Binnie) Final flight of SpaceShipOne | |||||||
14 October 03:06 |
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Roskosmos | Low Earth (ISS) | ISS Expedition 10 | 24 April 2005 | Successful | ||
Crewed orbital flight with 3 cosmonauts | |||||||
14 October 21:23 |
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SES Americom | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
19 October 01:20 |
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Geosynchronous | Weather satellite | In orbit | Operational | |||
29 October 22:11 |
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RSCC | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
November | |||||||
6 November 03:10 |
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Geosynchronous | Earth imaging | In orbit | Operational | |||
6 November 05:39 |
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US Air Force | Medium Earth | Navigation | In orbit | Operational | ||
8 November 18:30 |
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Suborbital | Test carrier rocket | 8 November | Successful | |||
Maiden flight of Soyuz-2.1a | |||||||
18 November 10:45 |
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Low Earth | Earth observation | In orbit | Operational | |||
20 November 17:16 |
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NASA | Low Earth | Gamma-ray research | In orbit | Operational | ||
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NSPO | Suborbital | Ionospheric research | 14 December | Successful | |||
Apogee: ~280 km (174 mi) | |||||||
17 December 12:07 |
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SES Americom | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
18 December 16:26 |
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DGA | Low Earth | Reconnaissance | In orbit | Operational | ||
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INTA | Low Earth | Technology demonstration | In orbit | Operational | ||
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DGA | Low Earth | ELINT | In orbit | Operational | ||
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DGA | Low Earth | ELINT | In orbit | Operational | ||
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DGA | Low Earth | ELINT | In orbit | Operational | ||
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DGA | Low Earth | ELINT | In orbit | Operational | ||
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CNES | Sun-synchronous (A-train) | Aeronomy | In orbit | Operational | ||
Final flight of Ariane 5G+ | |||||||
21 December 21:50 |
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US Air Force | Intended: Subsynchronous Actual: Medium Earth |
Test launch vehicle | In orbit | Partial launch failure | ||
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US Air Force | Low Earth | Cloud imaging | 22 December | Satellite failure | ||
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US Air Force | Low Earth | Cloud imaging | 22 December | Satellite failure | ||
Maiden flight of Delta IV Heavy Premature cut-off of second stage (burn one) left all payloads in wrong orbits. Both nanosats failed to contact ground after separation | |||||||
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RVSN | Suborbital | Missile test | 22 December | Successful | ||
23 December 22:19 |
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Roskosmos | Low Earth (ISS) | Logistics | 9 March 2005 | Successful | ||
ISS flight 16P | |||||||
24 December 11:20 |
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NKAU | Low Earth | Earth observation | In orbit | Partial launch failure | ||
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NKAU | Low Earth | Earth observation | ||||
Both satellites placed into incorrect orbits due to premature third stage cutoff | |||||||
26 December 13:53 |
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KNITs | Medium Earth | Navigation | In orbit | Operational | ||
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KNITs | Medium Earth | Navigation | In orbit | Operational | ||
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Deep Space Rendezvous
Date (GMT) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
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2 January | Stardust | Flyby of 81P/Wild (Wild 2) | Dust collection (samples returned to Earth in 2006) |
3 January | Spirit | Landing on Mars | Gusev Crater |
24 January | Opportunity | Landing on Mars | Meridiani Planum |
4 February | Ulysses | 2nd flyby of Jupiter | |
19 May | Hayabusa | Flyby of the Earth | |
11 June | Cassini | Flyby of Phoebe | Closest approach: 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) |
1 July | Cassini | First orbiter of Saturn | Saturnian orbit injection |
8 September | Genesis | Capsule crash-landing on Earth | 0.4 milligrams (0.0062 gr) of solar sample aboard |
26 October | Cassini | Flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) |
15 November | SMART-1 | Selenocentric orbit injection | First European Lunar mission |
13 December | Cassini | Flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 2,336 kilometres (1,452 mi) |
EVAs
Start Date/Time | Duration | End Time | Spacecraft | Crew | Function | Remarks |
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26 February 21:17 |
3 hours 55 minutes |
27 February 01:12 |
Expedition 8 ISS Pirs |
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Replaced microgravity experiment cassette containers, attached the Russian experiment Matryoshka to Zvezda, and removed a JAXA micro-meteor impact experiment.[4] | Reduced duration due a cooling system malfunction in Kaleri's spacesuit. |
24 June 21:56 |
14 minutes | 22:10 | Expedition 9 ISS Pirs |
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Spacewalk cut short due to a pressure problem in Fincke's prime oxygen tank in his spacesuit.[5][6] | Rescheduled for 30 June. |
30 June 21:19 |
5 hours 40 minutes |
1 July 02:59 |
Expedition 9 ISS Pirs |
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Replaced a Remote Power Controller (RPC) that failed in late April, causing a loss of power in Control Moment Gyroscope No. 2 (CMG 2).[5][7] | |
3 August 06:58 |
4 hours 30 minutes |
11:28 | Expedition 9 ISS Pirs |
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Removed laser retro reflectors from the Zvezda assembly compartment, and installed three updated laser retro reflectors and one internal videometer target in preparation for the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV). Installed two antennas, and removed and replaced Kromka experiment packages.[5][8] | |
3 September 16:43 |
5 hours 20 minutes |
22:04 | Expedition 9 ISS Pirs |
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Replaced the Zarya Control Module flow control panel, installed four safety tether fairleads on Zarya's handrails, installed three communications antennas, and removed covers from the antennas.[5][9] |
Orbital launch summary
By country
Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures |
Remarks | |
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8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | ||
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
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1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
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1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
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18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | ||
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7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | ||
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16 | 15 | 0 | 1 | ||
World | 54 | 50 | 1 | 3 |
By rocket
By family
Family | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
Atlas | ![]() |
6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
Delta | ![]() |
8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | |
GSLV | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Long March | ![]() |
8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
Minotaur | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
R-7 | ![]() |
8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
R-14 | ![]() |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
R-36 | ![]() |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
Shavit | ![]() |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Titan | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Universal Rocket | ![]() |
8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
Zenit | ![]() |
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
By type
Rocket | Country | Family | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
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Ariane | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
Atlas II | ![]() |
Atlas | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | Final flight |
Atlas III | ![]() |
Atlas | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Atlas V | ![]() |
Atlas | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
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Delta | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
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Delta | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Dnepr | ![]() |
R-36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
GSLV | ![]() |
GSLV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Kosmos | ![]() |
R-14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
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Long March | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
Long March 3 | ![]() |
Long March | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Long March 4 | ![]() |
Long March | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
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R-7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Proton-K | ![]() |
Universal Rocket | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
Proton-M | ![]() |
Universal Rocket | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
Shavit | ![]() |
Shavit | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
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R-7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
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R-7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
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Minotaur | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Titan IV | ![]() |
Titan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Tsyklon | ![]() |
R-36 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Zenit | ![]() |
Zenit | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
By configuration
Rocket | Country | Type | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
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Atlas II | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | Final flight |
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Atlas III | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Final flight |
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Atlas V | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Final flight |
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Delta II | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Delta II 7920 | ![]() |
Delta II | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
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Delta II | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
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Delta II | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
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Delta II | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
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Delta IV | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Maiden flight |
Dnepr | ![]() |
Dnepr | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
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GSLV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
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Kosmos | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
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Long March 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
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Long March 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
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Long March 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
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Long March 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Molniya-M | ![]() |
Molniya-M | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
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Proton-K | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
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Proton-M | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
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Shavit | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
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Soyuz-U | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
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Soyuz-FG | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
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Taurus | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
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Titan IV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
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Tsyklon | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
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Tsyklon | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Zenit-2 | ![]() |
Zenit | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
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Zenit | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
By spaceport
5
10
15
20
China
France
India
International waters
Israel
Kazakhstan
Russia
United States
Site | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
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17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | |
Cape Canaveral | ![]() |
13 | 12 | 0 | 1 | |
Jiuquan | ![]() |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
Kourou | ![]() |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
Ocean Odyssey | ![]() |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
Palmachim | ![]() |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Plesetsk | ![]() |
5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
Satish Dhawan | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Taiyuan | ![]() |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
Vandenberg | ![]() |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
Xichang | ![]() |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 54 | 50 | 1 | 3 |
By orbit
5
10
15
20
25
30
- Transatmospheric
- Low Earth
- Low Earth (ISS)
- Low Earth (SSO)
- Low Earth (retrograde)
- Medium Earth
- Geosychronous
(transfer) - Inclined GSO
- High Earth
- Heliocentric
Orbital regime | Launches | Successes | Failures | Accidentally achieved |
Remarks |
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Transatmospheric | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Low Earth | 23 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 6 to ISS |
Medium Earth / Molniya | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | |
Geosynchronous / GTO | 23 | 21 | 2 | 0 | |
High Earth / Lunar transfer | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Heliocentric / Planetary transfer | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 54 | 51 | 3 | 2 |
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