| We could estimate that 89% of all spacecrafts
has successfully accomplished their missions and 11% has failed.
Of the 6,854 spacecrafts launched between 1957 and 2009, some 732 had failed.
(See Table 6 - Success and Failure Ratio and
the list of Spacecrafts (known) Failures.)
Of these failed spacecrafts, nearly two-third
occured at launch, one percent were lost before launch (pad accidents),
one-eighth shortly after reaching orbit, one-sixth while performing their
missions and one-twentieth at the end of their mission.
| . |
Pad failure |
Launch failure |
Orbital failure |
Mission failure |
End-of-
mission |
Totail failure |
| Nomber |
6 |
474 |
90 |
122 |
35 |
732 |
| Percent |
0.8 % |
65.2 % |
12.4 % |
16.8 % |
4.8 % |
. |
.
(See Table 7 - Spacecrafts
Failures Modes.)
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