2003 in spaceflight
This article outlines notable events occurring in 2003 in spaceflight, including major launches and EVAs. The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster occurred on 1 February 2003.
Space Shuttle Columbia launches on its last mission, STS-107. The orbiter disintegrated during reentry, killing all seven crew. | |
Orbital launches | |
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First | 11 January |
Last | 29 December |
Total | 63 |
Successes | 60 |
Failures | 3 |
Partial failures | 0 |
Catalogued | 61 |
National firsts | |
Satellite | |
Space traveller | |
Rockets | |
Maiden flights | Atlas V 521 Delta II Heavy Delta IV Medium Strela |
Retirements | Ariane 4 44L Ariane 5G Space Shuttle Columbia Titan 23G |
Crewed flights | |
Orbital | 4 |
Total travellers | 13 |
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 | |||||||
6 January 14:19 |
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US Air Force | Low Earth | Technology development | In orbit | Operational | |||
9 January 03:17 |
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IDRDL | Suborbital | Missile test | 9 January | Successful | |||
13 January 00:45 |
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NASA | Low Earth | Oceanography | 30 August 2010 09:00[1] | Partial spacecraft failure | |||
NASA | Low Earth | Astrophysics | In orbit | Operational | |||
Laser reliability issues limited ICESat operations. ICESat deactivated in February 2010 following failure of last laser in October 2009. | |||||||
16 January 20:39 |
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NASA | Low Earth | Research | 1 February 13:59 | Failure | |||
NASA | Low Earth (Columbia) | Microgravity and Earth science research | |||||
NASA | Low Earth (Columbia) | Cryogenic mission duration extension pallet | |||||
Crewed orbital flight with 7 astronauts, including the first Israeli space traveler Final flight of Space Shuttle Columbia, disintegrated during re-entry resulting in loss of crew and vehicle. | |||||||
25 January 20:13 |
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NASA | Low Earth | investigate total solar irradiance | In orbit | Operational | |||
29 January 18:06 |
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US Air Force | Medium Earth | Navigation | In orbit | Operational | |||
US Air Force | Low Earth | Technology demonstration | In orbit | Successful | |||
XSS-10 deactivated 30 January 2003 | |||||||
February | |||||||
2 February 12:59 |
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Roskosmos | Low Earth (ISS) | Logistics | 27 August | Successful | |||
ISS flight 10P | |||||||
15 February 07:00 |
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Intelsat | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
Final flight of Ariane 4 44L | |||||||
March | |||||||
11 March 00:59 |
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US Air Force | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
Maiden flight of Delta IV Medium | |||||||
26 March 06:00 |
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IDRDL | Suborbital | Missile test | 26 March | Successful | |||
28 March 01:27 |
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Japanese Government | Low Earth | Reconnaissance | 18 July 2014 | Successful | |||
Japanese Government | Low Earth | Reconnaissance | 26 July 2012 | Partial spacecraft failure | |||
IGS-1B lost power in 2007, and concluded operations after just over half of its design life[2] | |||||||
31 March 22:09 |
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US Air Force | Medium Earth | Navigation | In orbit | Operational | |||
April | |||||||
2 April 01:53 |
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VKS | Molniya | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
8 April 14:43 |
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US Air Force | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
9 April 22:52 |
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ISRO | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
PanAmSat | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
12 April 00:47 |
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AsiaSat | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
26 April 03:53 |
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Roskosmos | Low Earth (ISS) | ISS Expedition 7 | 28 October | Successful | |||
Crewed orbital flight with 2 cosmonauts | |||||||
24 April 04:23 |
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VKS | Geosynchronous | Missile warning | In orbit | Operational | |||
28 April 12:00 |
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NASA | Low Earth | Ultraviolet astronomy | In orbit | Operational | |||
29 April 05:50 |
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IDRDL | Suborbital | Missile test | 29 April | Successful | |||
May | |||||||
8 May 11:28 |
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ISRO | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
9 May 04:29 |
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ISAS | Heliocentric | Asteroid sample-return probe | 13 June 2010 | Partial spacecraft failure | |||
ISAS | Heliocentric | Asteroid lander | In orbit | Spacecraft failure | |||
Explored asteroid 1998 SF36 | |||||||
13 May 22:10 |
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Hellas-Sat | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
First Greek satellite | |||||||
24 May 16:34 |
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Geosynchronous | Navigation | In orbit | Operational | ||||
June | |||||||
2 June 17:45 |
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ESA | Areocentric | Mars probe | In orbit | Operational | |||
ESA | Heliocentric | Mars lander | 25 December 2003 | Spacecraft failure | |||
Maiden flight of Soyuz-FG/Fregat Beagle 2 failed to contact Earth after landing on Mars | |||||||
4 June 19:23 |
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MO RF | Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | ||||
6 June 22:15 |
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SES Americom | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
8 June 10:34 |
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Roskosmos | Low Earth (ISS) | Logistics Earth observation | 3 October | Successful | |||
ISS flight 11P | |||||||
10 June 13:55 |
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Thuraya | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
10 June 17:58 |
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NASA | Heliocentric | Mars rover | 4 January 2004 | Operational | |||
NASA | Heliocentric | Mars lander | 4 January 2004 | Successful | |||
11 June 22:38 |
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Optus/Australian Government | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
BSAT | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
19 June 20:00 |
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VKS | Molniya | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
26 June 18:55 |
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Orbview | Low Earth | Imaging | 3 March 2011 | Satellite failure | |||
Ceased operations on 4 March 2007 after camera malfunction | |||||||
30 June 14:15 |
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Low Earth | 18 December 2011 | Successful | |||||
DTUSat | Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | ||||
Low Earth | Space telescope | In orbit | Operational | ||||
Cute-I | Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | ||||
Stanford University | Low Earth | Earth observation | In orbit | Operational | |||
AAU-Cubesat | Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | ||||
Can X-1 | Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | ||||
Cubesat XI | Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | ||||
Cubesat XII | Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | ||||
Cubesat XIII | Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | ||||
Cubesat XIV | Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | ||||
Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | |||||
July | |||||||
8 July 04:18 |
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NASA | Heliocentric | Mars rover | In orbit | Operational | |||
NASA | Heliocentric | Mars lander | In orbit | Successful | |||
Maiden flight of Delta II Heavy | |||||||
17 July 23:45 |
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Cablevision | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
Maiden flight of Atlas V 521 | |||||||
August | |||||||
8 August 03:31 |
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EchoStar | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
12 August 14:20 |
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Low Earth | Reconnaissance | 9 December | Failure | ||||
Film capsule failed to deorbit | |||||||
13 August 02:09 |
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CSA | Low Earth | Atmospheric research | In orbit | Operational | |||
19 August 10:50 |
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Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | |||||
Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | |||||
22 August 16:30 |
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SATEC | Intended: Low Earth | Never left ground | Launch failure | ||||
Unosat | Intended: Low Earth | Never left ground | |||||
Rocket exploded on the launch pad | |||||||
25 August 05:35 |
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NASA | Heliocentric | Infrared astronomy | In orbit | Operational | |||
29 August 01:47 |
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Roskosmos | Low Earth (ISS) | Logistics | 28 January 2004 | Successful | |||
ISS flight 12P | |||||||
29 August 23:13 |
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US Air Force | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
September | |||||||
9 September 04:29 |
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NRO | Geosynchronous | ELINT | In orbit | Operational | |||
16 September | |||||||
Intended: Low Earth | Microsat | 16 September | Launch failure | ||||
Fourth stage failed to ignite | |||||||
27 September 06:11 |
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Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | |||||
Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | |||||
Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | |||||
BILSAT-1 | Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | ||||
Larets | Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | ||||
STSat-1 | Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | ||||
Rubin-4-DSI | Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | ||||
NigeriaSat-1 is the first Nigerian satellite | |||||||
27 September 23:14 |
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Eutelsat | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
ISRO | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Successful[3] | |||
ESA | Selenocentric | Lunar probe | 27 September 2006 05:42:22 | Successful | |||
Final flight of Ariane 5G | |||||||
October | |||||||
1 October 04:02 |
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PanAmSat | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | operational | |||
15 October 01:00 |
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Low Earth | 15 October 22:53 | Successful | |||||
Low Earth | Reconnaissance | 30 May 2004 | Successful | ||||
Crewed orbital flight with 1 astronaut (Yang Liwei), first Chinese space traveller and indigenous crewed spaceflight | |||||||
17 October 04:54 |
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ISRO | Low Earth | Earth observation | In orbit | Operational | |||
18 October 05:38 |
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Roskosmos | Low Earth (ISS) | ISS Expedition 8 | 30 April 2004 | Successful | |||
Crewed orbital flight with 3 cosmonauts | |||||||
18 October 16:17 |
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US Air Force | Low Earth | Weather satellite | In orbit | Operational | |||
Final flight of Titan 23G | |||||||
21 October 03:16 |
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CAAC/INPE | Low Earth | Earth resources | In orbit | Operational | |||
CAS | Low Earth | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
30 October 13:43 |
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Low Earth | In orbit | Operational | |||||
November | |||||||
3 November 07:20 |
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SAST | Low Earth | Imaging | 18 December | Successful | |||
14 November 16:34 |
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Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||||
24 November 06:22 |
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Gazprom | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
Gazprom | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
29 November 04:33 |
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Japanese Government | Low Earth | Reconnaissance | T+60 seconds | Launch failure | |||
Low Earth | Reconnaissance | ||||||
SRB failed to separate. Destroyed by RSO. | |||||||
December | |||||||
2 December 10:04 |
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NRO | Low Earth | Naval SIGINT | In orbit | Operational | |||
NRO | Low Earth | Naval SIGINT | In orbit | Operational | |||
NRO launch 18 | |||||||
5 December 06:00 |
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Low Earth | In orbit | Successful | |||||
Maiden flight of Strela rocket | |||||||
10 December 17:42 |
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KNITs | Medium Earth | Navigation | In orbit | Operational | |||
KNITs | Medium Earth | Navigation | In orbit | Operational | |||
KNITs | Medium Earth | Navigation | In orbit | Operational | |||
18 December 02:30 |
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US Navy | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
21 December 08:05 |
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US Air Force | Medium Earth | Navigation | In orbit | Operational | |||
24 December | |||||||
NSPO | Suborbital | Ionospheric research | 24 December | Successful | |||
Apogee: ~280 km (174 mi) | |||||||
27 December 21:30 |
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Spacecom | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
28 December 20:37 |
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RSCC | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | |||
29 December 19:06 |
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CNSA/ESA | High Earth (High-eccentricity) | Magnetosphere research | 14 October 2007 | Successful | |||
Deep Space Rendezvous
Date (GMT) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
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19 June | Nozomi | 3rd flyby of the Earth | |
21 September | Galileo | Deorbited into the Jovian atmosphere | |
9 December | Nozomi | Flyby of Mars | Damaged by solar flares |
24 December | Beagle 2 | Crashed at Isidis Planitia, Mars | |
24 December | Mars Express | Areocentric orbit injection |
EVAs
Start Date/Time | Duration | End Time | Spacecraft | Crew | Function | Remarks |
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15 January 12:50 |
6 hours 51 minutes |
19:41 | Expedition 6 ISS Quest |
Released the remaining launch locks on the P1 radiator assembly, removed debris on a sealing ring of Unity's docking port, and tested an ammonia reservoir on the station's P6 truss.[4] | ||
8 April 12:40 |
6 hours 26 minutes |
19:06 | Expedition 6 ISS Quest |
Reconfigured cables on the S0 (S-Zero), S1 and P1 trusses, replaced a Power Control Module on the Mobile Transporter, installed Spool Positioning Devices on Destiny, and reinstalled a thermal cover on an S1 Radiator Beam Valve Module.[4] |
Orbital launch summary
By country
Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures |
Remarks | |
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7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | |||
4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |||
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
21 | 21 | 0 | 0 | |||
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
23 | 22 | 1 | 0 | |||
World | 64 | 60 | 4 | 0 |
By rocket
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
By family
Family | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
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Ariane | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
Atlas | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
Delta | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | ||
H-II | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
Kaituozhe | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
Long March | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
Mu | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
Pegasus | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
R-7 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||
R-14 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
Space Shuttle | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Columbia disintegrated on reentry | |
SLV | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
Titan | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
Universal Rocket | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | ||
VLS | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Vehicle exploded on launch pad | |
Zenit | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
By type
Rocket | Country | Family | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
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Ariane 4 | Ariane | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Final flight | |
Ariane 5 | Ariane | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
Atlas II | Atlas | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
Atlas III | Atlas | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
Atlas V | Atlas | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
Delta II | Delta | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | ||
Delta IV | Delta | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
GSLV | SLV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
H-IIA | H-II | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
Kaituozhe-1 | Kaituozhe | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
Kosmos | R-12/R-14 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
Long March 2 | Long March | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
Long March 3 | Long March | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
Long March 4 | Long March | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
Molniya | R-7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
M-V | Mu | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
Pegasus | Pegasus | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
PSLV | SLV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
Proton | Universal Rocket | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
Soyuz | R-7 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | ||
Space Shuttle | Space Shuttle | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
Titan II | Titan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Final flight | |
Titan IV | Titan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
UR-100 | Universal Rocket | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
VLS-1 | VLS | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
Zenit | Zenit | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
By configuration
By spaceport
5
10
15
20
25
30
Brazil
China
France
India
International waters
Japan
Kazakhstan
Russia
United States
Site | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
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Alcântara | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
Baikonur | 14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | ||
Cape Canaveral | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | Two launches used Stargazer aircraft | |
Jiuquan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
Kennedy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
Kourou | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
Ocean Odyssey | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
Plesetsk | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | ||
Satish Dhawan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
Taiyuan | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
Tanegashima | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
Uchinoura | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
Vandenberg | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | Two launches used Stargazer aircraft | |
Xichang | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
Total | 64 | 60 | 4 | 0 |
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 | 29 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 5 to ISS |
Medium Earth / Molniya | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
Geosynchronous / GTO | 23 | 23 | 0 | 0 | |
High Earth / Lunar transfer | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Heliocentric / Planetary transfer | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 64 | 61 | 3 | 0 |
gollark: Planes aren't that awful per passenger per mile, though.
gollark: You'd need rails or something all the way across the Atlantic.
gollark: Oh, and possible new transport thing for the ultrarich: suborbital rocket to a different continent.
gollark: That sounds very cool if quite possibly impractical.
gollark: There aren't that many alternatives.
References
Generic references:
Spaceflight portal
- Bergin, Chris. "NASASpaceFlight.com".
- Clark, Stephen. "Spaceflight Now".
- Kelso, T.S. "Satellite Catalog (SATCAT)". CelesTrak.
- Krebs, Gunter. "Chronology of Space Launches".
- Kyle, Ed. "Space Launch Report".
- McDowell, Jonathan. "Jonathan's Space Report".
- Pietrobon, Steven. "Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive".
- Wade, Mark. "Encyclopedia Astronautica".
- Webb, Brian. "Southwest Space Archive".
- Zak, Anatoly. "Russian Space Web".
- "ISS Calendar". Spaceflight 101.
- "NSSDCA Master Catalog". NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
- "Space Calendar". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- "Space Information Center". JAXA.
- "Хроника освоения космоса" [Chronicle of space exploration]. CosmoWorld (in Russian).
Footnotes
- http://reentrynews.aero.org/2003002a.html
- Blau, Patrick (31 July 2012). "IGS 1B Re-Entry". Spaceflight 101. Archived from the original on 28 October 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
- http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/after-10-years-in-orbit-insat3e-expires/article5859974.ece
- NASA (2003). "Expedition Six Spacewalks". NASA. Archived from the original on 5 October 2008. Retrieved 7 October 2008.
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