The Spacecrafts Encyclopedia

•	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 2014 and Spacecrats Launched in 2014.

• Summary of Spacecraft Laurcned in 2013 and Spacecrats Launched in 2013.

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
.
•	*Space Exploration at a Crossroad, (The Space Review):* Part 1 : Lessons To Be Learned, Part 2 : What Should We Do ?	October 2008
.
•	No More Dreams, Mr. President	August 2006

The Big Picture

Since 1957, we are launching an average of 133 spacecraft every year. In all, 7,472 spacecraft were launched between 1957 and 2013. They included satellite (in Earth orbit), piloted spaceship and planetary probe. The left graph shows the number of spacecraft launched every year. Color red represents spacecraft launched for Russia, blue represents spacecraft launched for the United States, yellow represents other governments (Europe, Japan, China, India, Canada, Israel & Other governments) and green represents non-governmental spacecrafts (commercial and amateur/student). This graph shows that the majority of spacecraft were launched for Russia, mainly in the 1970s and 1980s. The graph at right shows the number of spacecraft launched in the last ten years (2004-2013). An average of 125 spacecraft were launched in recent years; about a quarter each for Russia, United States, other governments and non-government. (Note tnat, from 2004 to 2012, the number of spacecraft launched each year averaged 115, but 214 were launched in 2013.) (Click on each graph to enlarge.)

Yearly Summary of Spacecrafts 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

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	Italy	Iran
Israel	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 spacecrafts 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 Spacecrafts Launched Each Year

Year Summary	Year in Review	Total	U.S.S.R. /Russia	United States	Europe	Japan	China	India	Canada	Israel	Other gov.	Com- mercial	Amateur /Student
1957	Review.	3	2	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
1958	Review.	28	5	23	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
1959	Review	24	4	20	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
1960	Review	44	9	35	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
1961	Review	60	9	50	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1
1962	Review	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	Review	78	21	13	15	4	6	3	1	.	3	10	2
2006	Review	116	15	29	9	9	7	1	.	1	16	10	19
2007	Review	123	18	32	9	6	9	5	2	1	12	20	9
2008	Review	111	21	15	11	3	14	4	3	2	8	23	7
2009	Review	129	29	28	17	6	5	3	2	.	9	17	13
2010	Review	129	27	25	10	6	18	3	0	1	9	20	10
2011	Review	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		Not 214	30	42	17	4	20	4	4	1	12	33	47
2014		Not >>	>>	>>	>>	>>	>>	>>	>>	>>	>>	>>	>>
Total	.	7,472	3,647	1,978	368	143	214	69	40	15	180	674	204
.	.	100%	48.8%	25.7%	4.9%	1.9%	2.9%	0.9%	0.5%	0.2%	2.4%	9.0%	2.7%
.	.	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, 2005-2014

Spacecraft by Weight Categories

In 2013, a ‘new era’ began with the launch of 96 microsatellites (weighting 10 kg or less). 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 (10 kg or less) and the small spacecraft (11-100 kg). This table shows that there are about a hundred full-fledge spacecrafts launched every year, about ten small spacecrafts and a dozen or so microsatellites before 2013, and many dozens now on.

	'Full-fledge' spacecraft (>100 kg)	Minisatellite (11 - 100 kg)	Microsatellite (<10 kg)	Total
2010	105 spacecrafts - 81.4 %	6 spacecrafts - 4.7 %	18 spacecrafts - 13.9 %	129 spacecrafts
2011	115 spacecrafts - 83.9 %	10 spacecrafts - 7.3 %	12 spacecrafts - 8.8 %	137 spacecrafts
2012	103 spacecrafts - 74.6 %	9 spacecrafts - 6.5 %	26 spacecrafts - 18.8 %	138 spacecrafts
2013	107 spacecrafts - 50.1 %	11 spacecrafts - 5.0 %	96 spacecrafts - 44.9 %	214 spacecrafts
2014 (As of May 31)	37 spacecrafts - 42.1 %	6 spacecrafts - 6.8 %	45 spacecrafts - 51.1 %	88 spacecrafts
Total	467 spacecrafts - 66.1 %	42 spacecrafts - 6.0 %	197 spacecrafts - 27.9 %	706 spacecrafts

Table 2 - Main Statistics
(as of 31 December 2013)

		1957-2011	Yearly average	Percent
•	Total Number of Spacecraft Launched:	7,472 spacecrafts	133 spacecrafts/year
	(See complete list)
.
•	Number of Russian Spacecraft:	3,647 spacecrafts	65 spacecrafts/year	48.8 %
•	Number of American Spacecraft:	1,918 spacecrafts	34 spacecrafts/year	25.7 %
•	Number of Other Governements Spacecraft: (Europe,Japan, China, India, Canada, Other)	1,029 spacecrafts	18 spacecrafts/year	13.8 %
•	Number of Commercial Spacecraft:	674 spacecrafts	12 spacecrafts/year	9.0 %
•	Number of Amateur Spacecraft:	204 spacecrafts	3½ spacecrafst/yeat	2,7 %
	(See Table 3)
.
•	Number of Civilian Spacecraft:	3,532 spacecrafts	63 spacecrafts/year	47.3 %
•	Number of Military Spacecraft:	3,940 spacecrafts	70 spacecrafts/year	52.7 %
	(See Table 4)
.
•	Number of Successfull Spacecraft:	(6,369) spacecrafts	117 spacecrafts/year	89.5 %
•	Number of FailedSpacecraft:	(751) spacecrafts	14 spacecrafts/year	10.5 %
	(See Table 6)
.
	Civilian Programs:
•	Number of Piloted Spaceships (+ 35 military):	593 spacecrafts	11 spacecrafts/year	7.9 %
•	Number of Planetary Probes:	230 spacecrafts	4 spacecrafts/year	3.1 %
•	Number of Communications Satellites:	1,238 spacecrafts	22 spacecrafts/year	16.6 %
•	Number of Meteorology Satellites:	183 spacecrafts	3 spacecrafts/year	2.5 %
	(See Table 8)
.
	Military Satellites:
•	Number of Surveillance (''spy”) Satellites: (photo,ellint, ocean, missile surveillance):	1,863 spacecrafts	33 spacecrafts/year	24.9 %
•	Number of Military Services Satellites: (communications, navigation, meteo, etc.)	1,451 spacecrafts	26 spacecrafts/year	19.4 %
	(See Table 9)

Source:© Claude Lafleur's Spacecraft Encyclopedia, 2005-2014

Military vs. Civilian Spacecrafts Launched

These two graphs traced the evolution of the number of military and civilian spacecraft launched from 1957 to 2011. 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 spacecrafts 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 spacecrafts launched at the end of the 1990s (green). (Click on each graph to enlarge.)

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

Table 10 - Number of Spacecrafts 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	>>	>>	.	>>	>>
Total	558	374	20	127	230
	7.47%	5.01%	0.27%	1.70%	3.08%
	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
>>	>>	>>	.	>>
1238	183	223	27	6
16.57%	2.45%	2.98%	0.36%	0.08%
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
>>	>>
219	318
2.93%	4.26%
Amateur /Student	Tech- nology

Space Exploration:

Space Applications:

R & D:

1,309 Spacecrafts
(17.5 %)

1,677 Spacecrafts
(22.4 %)

537 Spacecrafts
(7.2 %)

Source: © Claude Lafleur's Spacecraft Encyclopedia, 2005-2011

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	>>	>>	>>	.	>>
Total	1248	144	301	12	158
	16.70%	1.93%	4.03%	0.16%	2.11%
	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	.
>>	>>	.	.
841	431	128	51
11.26%	5.77%	1.71%	0.68%
Commu- nications .	Navi- gation	Radar Calib.	Meteo- rology

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2	4	.	16
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48	46	35	506
0.64%	0.62%	0.49%	6.77%
Space Defense	Antisa- tellite	Piloted	Science & Techno.

Military Applications:

Military Services:

R & D:

1,863 Spacecrafts
(24.9 %)

1,451 Spacecrafts
(19.4 %)

635 Spacecrafts
(8.5 %)

Space Launchers

“A” Semiorka	Ariane	Athena	Atlas	Black Arrow	Chang Zheng	Conestoga
Delta	Diamant	Dnepr	Energiya	Europa	Falcon	Feng Bao
H (Japan)	Juno/Redstone	Kosmos B	Kosmos C	KT-1	KSLV	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”)	Vanguard	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	0.67 %	1961 - 1975
2	Minotaur	13	0	13	100 %	46	0.65 %	2000 - 2011
3	Space Shuttle	134	1	135	99.26 %	278	3.91 %	1981 - 2011
4	A / Semiorka (Russia-era)	278	6	284	97.89 %	359	4.04 %	1992 - 2011
5	Delta	342	15	357	95.80 %	490	6.88 %	1960 - 2011
6	F / Tsyklon	225	10	235	95.74 %	363	5.30 %	1964 - 2009
7	Ariane	193½	10½	204	94.85 %	364	5.11 %	1979 - 2011
8	Kosmos C	438	24	462	94.81 %	847	12.13 %	1964 - 2010
-	A / Semiorka (Soviet-era)	1,362	84	1,446	94.19 %	1,497	21.03 %	1957 - 1991
9	Dnepr	16	1	17	94.12 %	85	1.79 %	1994 - 2011
10	Rokot	15	1	16	93.75 %	36	0.51 %	1994 - 2011
11	Chang Zheng	146	10	156	93.59 %	193	2.71 %	1969 - 2011
12	N	14	1	15	93.33 %	15	0.22 %	1975 - 1987
13	Pegasus	37	3	40	92.50 %	84	1.23 %	1990 - 2008
14	Titan	202	18	220	91.82 %	332	4.84 %	1964 - 2005
15	R-36	22½	2½	25	90.00 %	25	0.36 %	1965 - 1971
16	D / Proton	332	40	372	89.25 %	503	7.07 %	1965 - 2011
17	Atlas	316	40	356	88.76 %	490	6.88 %	1958 - 2011
18	Scout	87	12	99	87.88 %	111	1.62 %	1960 - 1994
19	Kosmos B	144	21	165	87.27 %	165	2.41 %	1961 - 1977
20	Thor	213	31	244	87.03 %	348	5.08 %	1958 - 1965
21	Zenit (J)	66	10	76	86.84 %	98	1.38 %	1985 - 2011
22	H	33	5	38	86.84 %	72	1.01 %	1986 - 2011
23	Mu / M-V	26	4	30	86.67 %	36	0.53 %	1970 - 2006
24	Diamant	10	2	12	83.33 %	15	0.22 %	1965 - 1965
25	SLV (India)	24½	10½	35	70.00 %	70	0.98 %	1979 - 2011
26	Juno, Jupiter, Redstone	12	10	22	54.55 %	22	0.32 %	1958 - 1961
27	Vanguard	3	8	11	27.27 %	11	0.16 %	1957 - 1959
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	Shtil'	2	0	2	100 %	3	0.04 %	1998 - 2006
	Strela	1	0	1	100 %	1	0.01 %	2003
	Start	6	1	7	85.71 %	9	0.13 %	1993 - 2006
	Shaviyt	6	2	8	75.00 %	8	0.11 %	1998 - 2010
	Athena	5	2	7	71.43 %	10	0.15 %	1995 - 2001
	Taurus	6	3	9	66.67 %	22	0.31 %	1999 - 2011
	Safir	2	1	3	66.67 %	2	0.02 %	2009 - 2011
	Falcon	4	3	7	57.14 %	18	0.26 %	2006 - 2010
	Feng Bao	4	4	8	50.00 %	12	0.18 %	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	0.07 %	1966 - 1970
	Conestoga	0	1	1	0 %	1	0.01 %	1998
	KSLV	0	2	2	0 %	2	0.03 %	2010
	Volna	0	1	1	0 %	1	0.01 %	2005
	KT-1	0	2	2	0 %	2	0.03 %	2002 - 2003
	VLS	0	3	3	0 %	4	0.06 %	1993 - 1997
	N-1	0	4	4	0 %	4	0.06 %	1969 - 1972
	Europa	0	4	4	0 %	4	0.06 %	1968 - 1971
	NOTS	0	6	6	0 %	6	0.09 %	1958

	Total	4,769½	426½	5,196	91.79 %	7,120	100 %	1957 - 2011

Table 12 - National Score

Nation	Successful Launches	Launch Failures	Total	Success Rate	% of Total Launches	Spacecraft Launched	% of spacecraft launched
Russia	2,908½	206½	3,115	93.37 %	59.90 %	3,998...	56.2 %...
United States	1,400¼	155¼	1,555	90.03 %	29.90 %	2,315...	32.5 %...
Europe	204½	17½	222	92.12 %	4.27 %	400...	5.6 %...
China	150¼	16¼	166	90.36 %	3.19 %	207...	2.9 %...
Japan	74¼	14¼	88	84.04 %	1.69 %	113...	1.6 %...
India	24½	10½	35	70.00 %	0.55 %	70...	1.0 %...
Israel	6¼	2¼	=8	75.00 %	0.14 %	8...	0.1 %...
Brazil	0¼	3¼	3	00.00 %	0.06 %	4...	0.1 %...
Iran	2¼	1¼	3	66.67 %	0.02 %	2...	0.0 %...
S. Korea	0¼	1¼	1	00.00 %	0.02 %	2...	0.0 %...
Total	4,769½	424½	5,194	91.83 %	100.00 %	7,120...	100 %...

Modern, Commercial Launchers Scoreboard
(As of 31 March 2014)

Rank Launcher Number of Launches In services Success Rate Remarks

1) Atlas V 43 success in 43 launches 2002-2014 100 % All launches successful.

2) Delta 4 23 success in 24 launches 2002-2014 98.8 % Last 21 launches successful.

3) Soyuz
• Soyuz-U
• Soyuz-FB
• Soyuz-2
• Soyuz ST 172 success in 176 launches
96 success in 99 launches
46 success in 46 launches
26 success in 27 launches
4 success in 4 launches 2000-2014
<2000-2014
2001-2014
2006-2014
2004-2014 97.7 %
97.0 %
100 %
96.3 %
100 % Last 34 launches successful.
(First Soyuxz-U launched in 1973)

4) Dnepr 18 success in 19 launches 1999-2013 97.7 % Last 12 launches successful.

5) Chang Zheng 127 success in 130 launches <2000-2014 97.7 %

6) Proton M 74 success in 80 launches 2001-2014 92.5 % Last 7 launches successful.

7) Ariane V 69½ success in 73 launches 1996-2014 92.2 % Last 59 launches successful.

8) Pegasus XL 31 success in 34 launches 1994-2013 91.2 % Last 28 launches successful.

9) Zenit-3 40 success in 44 launches 1999-2013 90.9 %

10) Rokot 19 success in 21 launches 1994-2013 90.4 % Last 5 launches successful.

11) India's SLV 24 success in 28 launches <2000-2014 85.7 % Last 9 launches successful.

12) H-II 29 success in 34 launches 1994-2014 85.3 % Last 21 launches successful.

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Falcon 9 7.8 sucess in 8 launches 2010-2014 97.5 %

Antares 3 success in 3 launches 2013-2014 100 %

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
• ISS Expeditition Crews.

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