On October 4, 2017, I had published an eBook, written in French and titled Spoutnik @ 60, which relate 60 years of space activities, what we have done, what we have learn and what we had gain from space. This book contains the most recent data on space activities, including stats and a chapter on the “True space pay-offs.” It's a 200-page book available at amazon.com.

•	Presentation of The Spacecraft Encyclopedia
•	Q & A: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Spacecraft !
•	Analyses and Essays
•	The Big Picture
•	The Encyclopedia Megatables
•	Number of Spacecraft Launched Each Year
•	Main Statistics
•	Number of Spacecraft Launched by Family: Civilian and Military
•	Space Launchers
•	Launchers' Ranking
•	National Score
•	Some Interesting Spacecraft Families

• Summary of Spacecraft Laurcned in 2017 and Spacecrat Launched in 2017

• Summary of Spacecraft Laurcned in 2016 and Spacecrat Launched in 2016
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Presentation of The Spacecraft Encyclopedia

Why an encyclopedia on all spacecraft ever launched? Because, beyond all projects, plans, "what we will do..." and "what we could have done if...", this is what Space exploration and operations are all about.

This website tries to present the most comprehensive views of all spacecraft ever launched (successfully or not) sponsored by every governments, organizations and corporations since October 1957. With more some 7,500 spacecraft, this encyclopedia represents a collossal endeavour which is only possible by starting with the works of such "giants" as Jonathan McDowell, Mark Wade, Asif Siddiqi, NASA Historians, NSSDC and many other sources.

The basic data for each spacecraft are presented in an entry written in "plain english", trying to be as accurate and concise as possible. Entries are grouped by year of launch, that is: entries for all spacecraft launched in a given year are on the same web page. Additional informations are available from the web links presented at the bottom of each entry.

See also: Spacecraft stats and insights, an introductory essay published in Space Review on April 5, 2010.

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Spacecraft !

•	How Many Spacecraft Were Launched?
•	How Many Spacecraft Are Russian, American, European, Etc.?
•	What Proportion of These Spacecraft are Military and Civilian?
•	What Proportion of Spacecraft had Accomplished Their mission, and Which Had Failed?
•	For What Purpose Spacecraft Are Launched?
•	How Many Spacecraft Are Piloted?
•	How Many Probes Were Launched To Explore Our Solar System?
•	How Many Communications Satellites Were Launched?
•	How Many Meteosats Were Launched?
•	What About Launchers: How Many, Which Are the Most Frequently Used and the Bests?
•	What’s the Difference Between Spacecraft, Satellite, Spaceship and Probes?

Analyses and Essays

•	Fifty years of piloted spaceflight: Where are we going?	April 2011

•	Spacecraft stats and insights (An Introduction to this Spacecraft Encyclopedia)	April 2010
.
•	Costs of U.S. Piloted Programs	March 2010

•	Space Exploration: an Accelerator of New Ideas and Technology	June 2009
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•	*Space Exploration at a Crossroad, (The Space Review):* Part 1 : Lessons To Be Learned, Part 2 : What Should We Do ?	October 2008
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•	No More Dreams, Mr. President	August 2006

The Big Picture

student). The graph at right shows the number of spacecraft launched in the last ten years (2008-2017, Oct. 4). In the last five years, more than 200 spacecraft were launched each year; about 10% for Russia and for the United States, 25% for other governments and 55% for non-government. (Click on each graph to enlarge.)

Yearly Summary of Spacecraft Launched

1957	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966
1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976
1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986
1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
2017

Spacecraft by Countries

Algeria	Arab Countries	Argentina	Australia	Belgium
Brazil	Canada	Chile	China	Czeck Repûblic
Denmark	Egypt	Europe (All)	European Agencies	France
Germany	India	Indonesia	Iran	Israel
Italy	Japan	Kazakhstan	Korea (South)	Malaysia
Mexico	Morocco	Netherlands	Nigeria	Norway
Pakistan	Russia (Soviet Union)	Spain	Sweden	Taiwan
Thailand	Turkey	Ukraine	United Kingdom	United States

The Encyclopedia Megatables

The table below presents the number of spacecraft launched every year. Il also gives access to the main lists that formed this encyclopedia.

•	To view all spacecraft launched on a given year, click on the year in the first colum of the table.
•	To view all Russian, or all American, or all European... spacecraft, click on the country name on top of the table.
•	To view the list of all, or Russian, or American, or European, etc. spacecraft launch on a given year, click on the appropriate number in the colums.
•	Each list give spacecraft names. Click on one of them to access the entry giving main data on this mission.

Table I - Number of Spacecraft Launched Each Year

Year Summary	Total	U.S.S.R. /Russia	United States	Europe	Japan	China	India	Canada	Israel	Other gov.	Com- mercial	Amateur /Student
1957	3	2	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
1958	28	5	23	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
1959	24	4	20	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
1960	44	9	35	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
1961	60	9	50	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1
1962	96	22	70	1	.	.	.	1	.	.	1	1
1963	97	24	72	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.
1964	127	43	82	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
1965	180	71	103	2	.	.	.	1	.	.	1	2
1966	174	54	116	1	2	.	.	.	.	.	1	.
1967	172	74	88	5	1	.	.	.	.	1	3	.
1968	166	85	75	4	.	.	.	.	.	.	2	.
1969	155	84	61	4	1	1	.	1	.	.	3	.
1970	142	95	33	7	2	1	.	.	.	.	3	1
1971	175	111	49	9	2	1	.	1	.	.	2	.
1972	143	98	35	5	1	.	.	1	.	.	2	1
1973	146	114	26	3	.	1	.	1	.	.	1	.
1974	136	101	18	10	1	2	.	.	.	.	3	1
1975	168	120	30	7	2	3	1	1	.	.	4	.
1976	164	125	23	2	2	3	.	1	.	1	7	.
1977	147	113	21	6	4	.	.	.	.	1	2	.
1978	174	125	35	4	4	1	.	1	.	.	3	1
1979	134	108	15	2	2	3	2	.	.	.	2	.
1980	144	111	21	6	2	.	1	.	.	.	2	1
1981	160	125	15	5	3	3	3	.	.	.	5	1
1982	160	134	12	2	1	1	1	2	.	.	7	.
1983	162	118	26	2	3	1	2	1	.	1	7	1
1984	169	117	30	5	3	3	.	1	.	1	8	1
1985	172	121	28	3	2	1	.	1	.	7	8	1
1986	151	123	16	2	3	2	.	.	.	1	3	1
1987	141	118	13	2	3	2	1	.	.	2	.	.
1988	155	115	17	6	2	4	3	.	1	.	6	1
1989	139	100	25	5	2	.	.	.	.	.	7	.
1990	173	100	31	8	6	5	1	.	1	3	11	7
1991	143	85	32	9	3	1	1	2	.	.	7	3
1992	135	80	24	10	2	2	2	1	.	4	9	1
1993	118	60	32	5	1	1	2	.	.	3	8	6
1994	130	65	34	3	4	4	2	.		6	12	.
1995	113	39	30	10	3	.	2	1	1	3	20	4
1996	112	34	37	12	1	2	1	1	1	10	11	2
1997	158	28	26	10	4	2	2	.	.	4	81	1
1998	174	28	23	12	2	1	.	.	1	8	95	4
1999	133	17	24	8	1	4	2	1	.	8	66	2
2000	131	32	35	17	2	6	1	1	.	5	28	4
2001	93	29	31	8	4	2	2	1	.	3	13
2002	101	21	18	12	8	8	2	.1	1	4	22	4
2003	98	22	23	8	8	9	4	2	1	7	8	6
2004	77	21	10	13	.	10	1	1	1	3	14	3
2005	78	21	13	15	4	6	3	1	.	3	10	2
2006	116	15	29	9	9	7	1	.	1	16	10	19
2007	123	18	32	9	6	9	5	2	1	12	20	9
2008	111	21	15	11	3	14	4	3	2	8	23	7
2009	129	29	28	17	6	5	3	2	.	9	17	13
2010	129	27	25	10	6	18	3	0	1	9	20	10
2011	137	25	21	10	4	20	5	1	1	13	23	14
2012	138	22	19	13	4	25	2	1	0	12	19	21
2013	Note - 214	30	42	17	4	20	4	4	1	12	33	47
2014	Note - 285	35	23	15	25	23	4	4	1	15	114	26
2015	Note - 245	35	36	16	2	21	4	1	0	15	81	38
2016	Note - 225	15	26	15	7	36	8	1	2	10	77	28
2017	Note - >>	>>	>>	>>	>>	>>	>>	>>	>>	>>	>>	>>
Total	8,593	3,728	2,003	414	177	297	85	46	18	220	946	296
.	100%	43.6%	23.5%	4.9%	2.1%	3.6%	1.0%	0.5%	0.2%	2.6%	13.5%	4.3%
.	Total	U.S.S.R. /Russia	United States	Europe	Japan	China	India	Canada	Israel	Other gov.	Com- mercial	Amateur /Student

Source: © Claude Lafleur's Spacecraft Encyclopedia, 2005-2017

Spacecraft by Weight Categories

In 2013, a ‘new era’ began with the launch of 96 microsatellites (weighting less than 10 kg). This ‘new era’ jumped the number of spacecraft launched during a year, from around 130 to more than 200. The table below gives the number of spacecraft launched each year according to their weight. There are, accordingly, the ‘full-fledge’ spacecraft (weighting at least 100 kg), the microsatellite (less than 10 kg) and the small spacecraft (10-99 kg). This table shows that there are about a hundred full-fledge spacecraft launched every year, about ten small spacecraft and a dozen or so microsatellites before 2013, and many dozens thereafter.

	'Full-fledge' spacecraft (>100 kg)	Small satellite (10 - 99 kg)	Microsatellite (<10 kg)	Total
2010	105 spacecraft = 81.4 %	6 spacecraft = 4.7 %	18 spacecraft = 13.9 %	129 spacecraft
2011	115 spacecraft = 83.9 %	10 spacecraft = 7.3 %	12 spacecraft = 8.8 %	137 spacecraft
2012	103 spacecraft = 74.6 %	9 spacecraft = 6.5 %	26 spacecraft = 18.8 %	138 spacecraft
2013	107 spacecraft = 50.1 %	11 spacecraft = 5.0 %	96 spacecraft = 44.9 %	214 spacecraft
2014	125 spacecraft = 43.9 %	30 spacecraft = 10.5 %	130 spacecraft = 45.6 %	285 spacecraft
2015	115 spacecraft = 46.9 %	20 spacecraft = 8.7 %	110 spacecraft = 44.9 %	245 spacecraft
2016	117 spacecraft = 52.0 %	18 spacecraft = 8.0 %	90 spacecraft = 40.0 %	225 spacecraft
2017 (As of Oct. 4)	87 spacecraft = 23.4 %	18 spacecraft = 4.9 %	261 spacecraft = 71.3 %	366 spacecraft
Total	874 spacecraft = 50.3 %	122 spacecraft = 7.0 %	743 spacecraft = 42.7 %	1739 spacecraft

Table 2 - Main Statistics
(as of 4 October 2017)

		1957-2017	Yearly average	Percent
•	Total Number of Spacecraft Launched:	8,593 spacecraft	143 spacecraft/year
	(See complete lists: 1957-1999 and 2000-2014)
.
•	Number of Russian Spacecraft:	3,743 spacecraft	62 spacecraft/year	43.6 %
•	Number of American Spacecraft:	2,022 spacecraft	34 spacecraft/year	23.5 %
•	Number of Other Governements Spacecraft: (Europe, Japan, China, India, Canada, Other)	1,300 spacecraft	2=2 spacecraft/year	15.1 %
•	Number of Commercial Spacecraft:	1,162 spacecraft	19 spacecraft/year	13.5 %
•	Number of Amateur Spacecraft:	366 spacecraft	6 spacecraft/yeat	4.3 %
	(See Table 3)
.
•	Number of Civilian Spacecraft:	4,519 spacecraft	75 spacecraft/year	52.6 %
•	Number of Military Spacecraft:	4,074 spacecraft	67 spacecraft/year	47.4 %
	(See Table 4)
.
•	Number of Successfull Spacecraft:	spacecraft	spacecraft/year	%
•	Number of FailedSpacecraft:	spacecraft	spacecraft/year	%
	(See Table 6)
.
	Civilian Programs:
•	Number of Piloted Spaceships (+ 35 military):	610 spacecraft	10 spacecraft/year	7.1 %
•	Number of Planetary Probes:	248 spacecraft	4 spacecraft/year	2.9 %
•	Number of Communications Satellites:	1,381 spacecraft	23 spacecraft/year	16.1 %
•	Number of Meteorology Satellites:	241 spacecraft	4 spacecraft/year	2.8 %
	(See Table 8)
.
	Military Satellites:
•	Number of Surveillance (''spy”) Satellites: (photo, ellint, ocean, missile surveillance):	1,913 spacecraft	32 spacecraft/year	22.3 %
•	Number of Military Services Satellites: (communications, navigation, meteo, etc.)	1,511 spacecraft	25 spacecraft/year	17.6 %
	(See Table 9)

Source:© Claude Lafleur's Spacecraft Encyclopedia, 2005-2017

Military vs. Civilian Spacecraft Launched

These two graphs traced the evolution of the number of military and civilian spacecraft launched from 1957 to 2014. The graph at left shows that the majority of military spacecraft were launched by the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s (red), and a net decrease during the last fifteen years. About 30 military spacecraft were launched in recent years. The graph at right shows civilian spacecraft launched; in general, the numbers are relatively constant throughout the last 50 years (about 75 a year), except for a "surge" in commercial spacecraft launched at the end of the 1990s (green). And since 2013, we are seeing a record number of civilian spacecratf launched (154 and 240 for 2013 and 2014). (Click on each graph to enlarge.)

Other tables
• Table 3 - Spacecraft Sponsors
• Table 4 - Civilian vs. Military Spacecraft
• Table 5 - The Four Main Spacecraft Sources
• Table 6 - Success and Failure Ratio
• Table 7 - Spacecraft Failure Modes
• Table 8 - Civilian Families Statistics
• Table 9 - Military Families Statistics

Table 10 - Number of Spacecraft Launched by Family

Civilian Families

Piloted Programs	Earth/Space Science	Biology	Asstronomy / Sun
Planetary Exploration	Communications	Meteorology	Remote Sensing
Material Processing	Amateur/Student	Technology

Space Exploration

Space Applications

R & D

Year	Piloted	Science	Biology	Astro- nomy	Plane- tary
1957	.	.	1		.
1958	.	13	.	.	7
1959	.	8	.	.	6
1960	8	3	.	.	7
1961	12	8	.	.	4
1962	5	9	.	1	11
1963	3	3	.	1	4
1964	3	14	.	3	10
1965	9	12	.	4	12
1966	15	9	2	3	10
1967	10	11	1	4	10
1968	14	13	.	6	3
1969	18	9	1	2	12
1970	6	11	1	2	6
1971	11	14	.	1	10
1972	9	11	.	2	5
1973	9	5	1	2	8
1974	6	5	1	3	2
1975	7	11	1	3	7
1976	2	6	.	1	1
1977	3	8	1	1	2
1978	10	11	.	3	8
1979	8	8	1	2	.
1980	10	1	.	1	.
1981	6	10	.	2	2
1982	11	1	.	1	.
1983	9	2	1	4	2
1984	13	7	.	.	4
1985	11	4	1	1	2
1986	7	4	.	1	.
1987	11	2	1	1	.
1988	11	3	.	.	6
1989	9	8	1	3	3
1990	12	5	.	3	3
1991	11	4	.	3	.
1992	14	11	1	1	1
1993	14	1	.	3	.
1994	15	6	.	1	(1)
1995	16	4	.	5	.
1996	13	11	1	6	9
1997	14	1	.	4	2
1998	12	4	.	2	4
1999	7	3	.	5	4
2000	13	8	.	2	.
2001	18	6	.	3	2
2002	12	3	.	2	1
2003	7	5	.	5	9
2004	6	5	.	1	3
2005	8	4	.	1	4
2006	8	9	1	5	1
2007	9	6	.	1	6
2008	14	9	.	1	2
2009	15	7	.	4	2
2010	12	2	1	1	2
2011	16	3	.	2	6
2012	13	5	.	1	.
2013	13	9	1	7	5
2014	14	7	.3	4	15
2015	14	8		2
2016	14	15	3	2	3
2017	>>	>>		>>	>>
Total	600	404	24	135	248
	7.10%	4.72%	0.28%	1.59%	2.89%
	Piloted	Science	Biology	Astro- nomy	Plane- tary

Commu- nications	Meteo- rology	Remote Sensing	Meterial Process	Navi- gation
.	.	.	.	.
.	.	.	.	.
.	.	.	.	.
2	2	.	.	.
.	1	.	.	.
2	3	.	.	.
3	4	.	.	.
5	2	.	.	.
3	4	.	.	.
4	6	.	.	.
7	6	.	.	.
6	5	.	.	.
5	5	.	.	.
9	7	.	.	.
5	5	.	.	.
9	5	1	.	.
10	4	.	.	.
11	7	.	.	.
17	8	2	.	.
20	4	.	.	.
12	7	.	.	.
15	4	2	.	.
13	4	7	.	.
13	4	5	.	.
20	6	4	1	.
25	2	4	.	.
27	3	9	1	.
24	4	8	1	.
30	3	7	1	.
18	3	6	1	.
12	3	6	1	.
26	5	9	1	.
20	4	7	1	.
31	3	6	2	.
26	4	7	1	.
26	.	5	2	.
23	3	6	.	.
26	4	3	1	.
25	2	5	4	.
36	.	1	1	.
91	3	7	1	.
106	1	2	.	.
73	2	12	1	.
41	3	5	.	.
20	2	4	.	.
36	4	6	2	.
20	.	6	.	.
22	1	6	.	.
21	3	4	1	1
22	4	6	1	.
32	.	10	2	.
33	2	6	.	1
24	3	7	.	.
27	3	5	.	1
40	2	4	.	2
33	3	12	.	2
31	1	11	.	1
44	3	94	.	4
33	7	53		7
24	16	66		9
>>	>>	>>		>>
1337	209	376	27	26
16.07%	2.80%	6.31%	0.35%	3.34%
Commu- nications	Meteo- rology	Remote Sensing	Meterial Process	Navi- gation

Amateur /Student	Tech- nology
.	2
.	1
.	.
.	.
1	.
1	.
.	2
.	5
2	8
.	6
.	6
.	3
.	6
1	6
.	5
1	2
.	2
1	7
.	5
.	1
.	4
3	4
.	2
1	7
7	3
2	1
1	1
1	2
1	2
1	2
.	1
1	.
.	.
7	2
3
1	4
5	4
1	7
4	4
2	3
2	8
6	9
2	8
4	17
3	9
6	14
6	10
4	3
1	14
20	10
8	10
7	9
13	18
10	16
14	7
21	7
44	27
26	25
19	56
6	49
>>	>>
270	447
3.74%	5.75%
Amateur /Student	Tech- nology

Space Exploration:

Space Applications:

R & D:

1,424 Spacecraft
(16.6 %)

2,234 Spacecraft
(26.0 %)

815 Spacecraft
(9.5 %)

Source: © Claude Lafleur's Spacecraft Encyclopedia, 2005-2017

Military Families

Surveillance	Electronic Intelligence	Missile Early Warning	Nuclear Test Monitor
Ocean Surveillance	Communications	Navigation	Radar Calibration
Meteorology	Space Defense	Antisatellite Tests	Piloted Programs
Science & Technology

Military Applications

Military Services

R & D

Year	Surveil lance	Early war- ning	Elec- tronic Intel	Nuclear Moni- toring	Ocean Surveil- lance
1957	.	.	.	.	.
1958	.	.	.	.	.
1959	5	.	.	.	.
1960	9	2	2	.	.
1961	21	2	1	.	.
1962	33	2	6	.	.
1963	30	3	10	2	.
1964	37	.	10	2	.
1965	40	.	7	2	1
1966	47	3	10	.	1
1967	44	.	6	2	1
1968	45	.	10	.	1
1969	44	.	9	2	1
1970	39	2	8	2	1
1971	40	1	10	.	6
1972	39	2	10	.	1
1973	42	2	9	.	2
1974	37	1	7	.	3
1975	38	3	10	.	4
1976	40	2	10	.	8
1977	38	4	11	.	7
1978	36	3	9	.	.
1979	35	4	7	.	2
1980	34	6	6	.	11
1981	38	7	5	.	6
1982	39	6	8	.	7
1983	34	3	6	.	10
1984	33	10	6	.	8
1985	29	8	11	.	6
1986	31	7	8	.	9
1987	32	5	9	.	10
1988	33	5	8	.	3
1989	25	3	4	.	3
1990	22	7	5	.	8
1991	14	3	2	.	5
1992	14	6	6	.	.
1993	8	3	4	.	8
1994	8	3	5	.	1
1995	6	1	4	.	3
1996	5	.	2	.	5
1997	4	4	2	.	1
1998	5	2	2	.	1
1999	3	2	1	.	1
2000	5	1	1	.	.
2001	2	2	.	.	3
2002	4	2	.	.	.
2003	7	1	1	`.	2
2004	6	1	7	.	1
2005	5	.	2	.	.
2006	5	1	4	.	.
2007	9	2	1	.	2
2008	8	2	3	.	.
2009	8	.	2	.	.
2010	8	1	.	.	3
2011	>0	1	4	.	2
2012	6	1	7	.	.
2013	9	2	3	.
2014	10	3	3	.	6
2015	8	1	2
2016	6		1
2017	>>	>>	>>		>>
Total	1272	147	307	12	164
	14.83%	1.75%	3.62%	0.14%	1.93%
	Surveil lance	Early war- ning	Elec- tronic Intel.	Nuclear Moni- toring	Ocean Surveil- lance

Commu- nications .	Navi- gation	Radar Calib.	Meteo- rology
.	.	.	.
.	.	.	.
.	1	.	.
2	3	.	.
.	3	.	.
.	1	3	2
1	4	1	3
8	4	2	4
26	4	9	4
16	4	1	3
14	5	5	3
11	2	5	2
1	3	8	1
12	5	.	2
22	2	4	2
19	4	2	2
28	6	.	1
19	5	3	2
29	5	1	1
30	9	4	2
13	10	6	1
43	12	2	1
22	6	3	1
28	9	4	1
28	7	4	.
32	11	6	1
21	14	9	1
25	18	4	.
29	15	3	.
36	10	3	.
27	14	3	1
20	16	3	1
26	14	3	.
30	15	3	1
30	10	3	1
24	17	.	.
18	13	2	.
19	12	8	1
8	13	7	1
5	6	1	.
5	5	.	.
10	5	.	.
3	2	.	1
8	9	.	.
7	5	.	.
3	5	.	.
7	8	1	1
3	7	.	.
2	5	.	.
3	5	.	1
5	11	.	.
4	7	.	.
10	7	.	1
8	16	.	.
6	10	.	.
10	7	.	.
25	5	2	.
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Space Defense	Antisa- tellite	Piloted	Science & Techno.

Military Applications:

Military Services:

R & D:

1,913 Spacecraft
(22.3 %)

1,511 Spacecraft
(17.6 %)

663 Spacecraft
(7.7 %)

Space Launchers

“A” Semiorka	Angara	Antares	Ariane	Athena	Atlas	Black Arrow
Chang Zheng	Conestoga	Delta	Diamant	Dnepr	Energiya	Epsilon
Europa	Falcon	Feng Bao	H (Japan)	Juno/Redstone	Kosmos B	Kosmos C
KT-1	KSLV	Kuaizhou	Lambda	Minotaur	Mu / M-V	N (Japan)
N1 (USSR)	NOTS	Pegasus	Proton (“D”)	R-36	Rokot	Safir
Saturn	Scout	Shaviyt	Shtill	SLV (India)	Space Shuttle	Start
Strela	Taurus	Thor	Titan	Tsyklon (“F”)	Unha	Vanguard
Vega	VLS (Brazil)	Volna	Zenit (“J”)

Table 11 - Launchers Ranking

These graphs show the launch rate of all launchers. The graph at left shows the 12 launchers which had been launched more than 100 times. The central graph shows the 14 launchers which had been launched between 10 and 99 times. The graph at right shows the 21 launchers which had been launched less than 10 times. (Click on each graph to enlarge.)

Rank	Launcher Family	Launch Success	Launch Failure	Total Launches	Success Rate	Number of Payload Carried	Percent of Total Payload Carried	First Launch - Last Launch
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1	Saturn	28	0	28	100 %	46	0.59 %	1961 - 1975
2	Minotaur	16	0	16	100 %	82	0.95 %	2000 - 2017
3	Vega	10	0	10	100 %	25	0.29 %	2012 - 2017
4	Space Shuttle	134	1	135	99.26 %	278	3.58 %	1981 - 2011
5	Soyuz (Semiorka) (Russia-era)	370½	7½	378	98.02 %	580	6.75 %	1992 - 2017
6	Rokot	26	1	27	96.30 %	73	0.85 %	1994 - 2016
7	Tsyklon	225	10	235	95.74 %	363	4.68 %	1964 - 2009
8	Ariane	228½	10½	239	95.61 %	432	5.02 %	1979 - 2017
9	Dnepr	21	1	22	95.45 %	163	1.90 %	1994 - 2015
10	Delta	359	18	377	95.23 %	517	6.02 %	1960 - 2017
11	Chang Zheng	239	13	252	94.84 %	366	4.26 %	1969 - 2017
12	Kosmos C	438	24	462	94.81 %	847	10.92 %	1964 - 2010
-	A / Semiorka (Soviet-era)	1,362	84	1,446	94.19 %	1,497	19.30 %	1957 - 1991
13	N	14	1	15	93.33 %	164	1.91 %	1975 - 1987
14	Pegasus	40	3	43	93.02 %	94	1.09 %	1990 - 2016
15	Titan	202	18	220	91.82 %	332	4.28 %	1964 - 2005
16	H	52	5	57	91.23 %	118	1.52 %	1986 - 2017
17	Proton	378	38	416	90.87 %	584	6.45 %	1965 - 2015
18	Atlas	363	38	401	90.52 %	688	8.01 %	1958 - 2017
19	R-36	22½	2½	25	90.00 %	25	0.32 %	1965 - 1971
20	Falcon	42	5	47	89.36 %	125	1.45 %	2006 - 2017
21	Scout	87	12	99	87.80 %	111	1.46 %	1960 - 1994
22	Kosmos B	144	21	165	87.27 %	165	2.13 %	1961 - 1977
23	Thor	213	31	244	87.03 %	348	4.46 %	1958 - 1965
24	Mu / M-V	26	4	30	86.67 %	36	0.46 %	1970 - 2006
25	Zenit	71	11	82	86.59 %	104	1.34 %	1985 - 2014
26	Diamant	10	2	12	83.33 %	15	0.19 %	1965 - 1965
27	SLV (India)	49½	11½	61	81.15 %	283	3.29 %	1979 - 2017
28	Juno, Jupiter, Redstone	12	10	22	54.55 %	22	0.28 %	1958 - 1961
29	Vanguard	3	8	11	27.27 %	11	0.14 %	1957 - 1959
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	Strela	3	0	3	100 %	3	0.04 %	2003 - 2014
	Kuaizhou	2	0	2	100 %	2	0.03 %	2013 - 2014
	Shtil'	2	0	2	100 %	3	0.04 %	1998 - 2006
	Angara	1	0	1	100 %	1	0.01 %	2014
	Epsilon	1	0	1	100 %	2	0.02 %	2013 - 2017
	Start	6	1	7	85.71 %	9	0.12 %	1993 - 2006
	Antares	4	1	5	80.00 %	97	1.13 %	2013 - 2016
	Shaviyt	8	2	10	75.00 %	10	0.12 %	1998 - 2016
	Athena	5	2	7	71.43 %	10	0.10 %	1995 - 2001
	Taurus	6	9	9	66.67 %	22	0.28 %	1999 - 2014
	KT / Kaituozhe	4	2	6	66.67 %	8	0.09%	2002 - 2017
	Safir	3	(2)	(5)	(60.00 %)	4	0.05 %	2009 - 2017
	Feng Bao	4	4	8	50.00 %	12	0.15 %	1994 - 1998
	Energiya	1	1	2	50.00 %	2	0.03 %	1987 - 1988
	Black Arrow	1	1	2	50.00 %	2	0.03 %	1994
	Lambda	1	4	5	20.00 %	5	0.06 %	1966 - 1970
	KSLV	1	2	3	33.33 %	2	0.03 %	2019 - 2013
	Uhna	1	2	3	33.33 %	3	0.04 %	2009 - 2012
	Conestoga	0	1	1	0 %	1	0.01 %	1998
	Super Stryiti	0	1	1	0 %	13	0.15 %	2015
	Electron	0	1	1	0 %	1	0.01 %	2017
	SS 520	0	1	1	0 %	1	0.01 %	2017
	Volna	0	1	1	0 %	1	0.01 %	2005
	VLS	0	3	3	0 %	4	0.05 %	1993 - 1997
	N-1	0	4	4	0 %	4	0.05 %	1969 - 1972
	Europa	0	4	4	0 %	4	0.05 %	1968 - 1971
	NOTS	0	6	6	0 %	6	0.08 %	1958

	Total	5,246	435	5,681	92.35 %	8,593	100 %	1957 - 2017

Table 12 - National Score

Nation	Successful Launches	Launch Failures	Total	Success Rate	% of Total Launches	Spacecraft Launched	% of spacecraft launched
Russia	3,073..	206..	3,279	93.72 %	57.72 %	4,395...	51.1 %
United States	1,517..	157..	1,674	90.62 %	29.47 %	2,804...	32.6 %
Europe	249½	17½	267	93.43 %	4.70 %	493...	5.7 %
China	247..	19..	266	92.86 %	4.68 %	386...	4.5 %
Japan	95..	15..	110	86.36 %	1.94 %	208...	2.4 %
India	49½	11½	61	81.15 %	1.07 %	283...	3.3 %
Israel	68 .	2..	10	80.00 %	0.18 %	10...	0.1 %
Iran	4 .	0 .	8	100 %	0.06 %	4...	0.1 %
Brazil	0..	3..	3	00.00 %	0.06 %	4...	0.1 %
South Korea	1..	2..	3	33.33 %	0.06 %	3...	0.0 %
North Korea	2..	2..	3	33.33 %	0.06 %	3...	0.0 %
Total	5,546 .	435..	5,681	92.34 %	100.00 %	8,593...	100 %

Table 13 - Modern, Commercial Launchers Scoreboard

(As of December 31, 2014)e .

Rank	..	Launcher	Number of Launches	In services	Success Rate	Remarks
1)		Atlas V	50 success in 50 launches	2002-2014	100 %	All launches successful. (Note 1)
2)		Falcon 9	12.8 sucess in 13 launches	2010-2014	98.8 %	Last 7 launches successful.(Note 2)
3)		Chang Zheng	141 success in 144 launches	>2000-2014	97.9 %	Last 16 launches successful. (Note 3)
4)		Soyuz • Soyuz-U • Soyuz-FG • Soyuz-2 • Other type	190½ success in 195 launches 87 success in 89 launches 49 success in 49 launches 42½ success in 44 launches 12 success in 13 launches	2000-2014 >2000-2014 2001-2014 2006-2014 2000-2010	97.7 % 97.0 % 100 % 96.36% 92.3 %	Last 8 launches successful. (Note 3) (First Soyuxz-U launched in 1973)
5)		Delta 4	26 success in 27 launches	2002-2014	96.3 %	Last 23 launches successful.
6)		Ariane V	73½ success in 77 launches	1996-2014	95.5 %	Last 65 launches successful
7)		Dnepr	19 success in 20 launches	1999-2014	95.0 %	Last 14 launches successful.
8)		Pegasus	39 success in 42 launches	1990-2013	92.9 %	Last 28 launches successful.
9)		Proton M	78 success in 85 launches	2001-2014	91.8 %	Last 4 launches successful.
10)		Rokot	21 success in 23 launches	1994-2014	91.3 %	Last 7 launches successful
11)		Zenit-3	41 success in 45 launches	1999-2014	91.1 %	Last 2 launches successful.
12)		SLV	27 success in 31 launches	>2000-2014	87.1 %	Last 12 launches successful.
13)		H-II	32 success in 37 launches	1994-2014	86.5 %	Last 24 launches successful.
14)		Antares	4 success in 5 launches	2013-2014	80 %	Last launch failed.

Note 1:	The last Atlas failure dated back to March 1993; since then, 122 successful launches were made.
Note 2:	The fourth launch of a Falcon 9 achieve orbit even though one of its first-stage engine had an anomaly. The second stage compensated to reach orbit, although extra propellant was used and stage 2 did not restart as planned. We consider this launch a “80% success.”
Note 3:	This launcher was in service well before the year 2000, but we consider its carrier as a commercial launcher from that year on.

50 Years of Space Exploration it Two Graphs

These two graphs summarized the first 50 years of space exploration by answering two questions: who launched spacechips and for what purpose? Click on each graph to view the answer.

Some Interesting Spacecraft Families

•	Master lists of All Spacecrafts Ever Launched: 1957-1999 and 2000-today.
	Alphabetical Index of All spacecrafts (a ~1.0 MB webpage)

•	Commercial Launch Contract

•	Spacecrafts (Known) Failures
	Geostationary Spacecrafts
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•	ISS Operations (all mission launched toward the International Space Station).
•	Soyuz Spaceships (all Soyuz variant launched fomr 1966 to today)
•	The Progress Cargoships Family
•	Transit and Navstar Navigation Satellites

•	U.S. Piloted Programs Costs
•	The Complete Reference on Spacewalks and Spacewalk's Descriptions

NEW: Tables on Piloted Spaceflight (in French)
• All Piloted Spaceflight in the 1960's, 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s and 2000’s
• Piloted Spaceflight by Length (from the longest to the shortest)
• List of all Space Explorers (Astronauts, Cosmonauts, Tourists, etc.)
• Space Explorers by Rank of First Mission
• Space Explorers by Time They Spend in Space
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