======================================================== SPACE LAUNCH REPORT 2008 LAUNCH VEHICLE/SITE STATISTICS ======================================================== by Ed Kyle as of December 30, 2009 ======================================================== YEAR TO DATE LAUNCH VEHICLE SUMMARY Calendar year launch vehicle results, ranked by number of successes, with launch total as the first tiebreaker and vehicle payload mass as the second tiebreaker. Low Earth Orbit (LEO) missions have orbital periods less than 2 hours. Deep Space missions include heliocentric, planetocentric, and solar system escape trajectories. ========================================================= Vehicle Overall By Orbit Type Launches Earth-Orbit Earth-Escape (Failures) LEO >LEO Deep Space ========================================================= R-7 13(1) 12(0) 1(1) - Proton 10(0) - 10(0) - Delta 2 8(0) 5(0) 2(0) 1(0) Ariane 5 7(0) 1(0) 6(0) - CZ 6(1) 4(0) 2(1) - STS 5(0) 5(0) - - Atlas 5 5(0) 1(0) 4(0) - Zenit 4(0) - 4(0) - Delta 4 3(0) - 3(0) - Rokot/Briz KM 3(0) 3(0) - - H-2A 2(0) 2(0) - - PSLV 2(0) 2(0) - - H-2B 1(0) 1(0) - - Tsyklon 3 1(0) 1(0) - - Kosmos 3M 1(0) 1(0) - - Dnepr 1(0) 1(0) - - Minotaur 1 1(0) 1(0) - - Falcon 1 1(0) 1(0) - - Safir 1(0) 1(0) - - Taurus-XL 1(1) 1(1) - - Unha 2 1(1) 1(1) - - KSLV-1 1(1) 1(1) - - ------------------------------------------------------------ Total 78(5) 45(3) 32(2) 1(0) Ariane 5 Details ------------------------------------------------------------ Ariane 5ECA 6(0) - 6(0) - Ariane 5GS 1(0) 1(0) - - Ariane 5ES ------------------------------------------------------------ Atlas 5 Details ----------------------------------------------------------- Atlas 5-401 3(0) 1(0) 2(0) - Atlas 5-421 1(0) - 1(0) - Atlas 5-431 1(0) - 1(0) - ----------------------------------------------------------- Chang Zheng (Long March) Details ------------------------------------------------------------ CZ-2C 2(0) 2(0) - - CZ-2D 1(0) 1(0) - - CZ-2F (M) CZ-3A CZ-3B 1(1) - 1(1) - CZ-3C 1(0) - 1(0) - CZ-4B CZ-4C 1(0) 1(0) - - ------------------------------------------------------------ Delta 2 Details ------------------------------------------------------------ Delta 2-7320 2(0) 2(0) - - Delta 2-7420 Delta 2-7925 3(0) - 2(0) 1(0) Delta 2-7920 3(0) 3(0) - - ------------------------------------------------------------ Delta 4 Details ------------------------------------------------------------ Delta 4M - - - - Delta 4M+4,2 1(0) - 1(0) - Delta 4M+5,4 1(0) - 1(0) - Delta 4H 1(0) - 1(0) - ------------------------------------------------------------ H-2A/B Details ------------------------------------------------------------- H-2A/2022 H-2A/2024 H-2A/202 2(0) 2(0) - - H-2A/204 H-2B/304 1(0) 1(0) - - ------------------------------------------------------------- Proton Details ------------------------------------------------------------ Proton-K/DM-2 1(0) - 1(0) - Proton-M/Briz-M 8(0) - 8(0) - Proton-M/DM-2 1(0) - 1(0) - ------------------------------------------------------------- PSLV Details ------------------------------------------------------------ PSLV-C PSLV-CA (Core Alone) 2(0) 2(0) - - PSLC-XL-C ------------------------------------------------------------- Soyuz/Molniya (R-7) Details ------------------------------------------------------------- Soyuz-U (Progress) 5(0) 5(0) - - Soyuz-U (Kosmos) 2(0) 2(0) - - Soyuz-FG/Fregat Soyuz-FG/Soyuz (M) 4(0) 4(0) - - Soyuz-2-1a/Fregat 1(1) - 1(1) - Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat 1(0) 1(0) - - Molniya-M ------------------------------------------------------------ Space Shuttle (STS) Details ------------------------------------------------------------ Discovery (OV-103) 2(0) 2(0) - - Atlantis (OV-104) 2(0) 2(0) - - Endeavour (OV-105) 1(0) 1(0) - - ----------------------------------------------------------- Zenit Details ----------------------------------------------------------- Zenit 3SL/DMSL 1(0) - 1(0) - Zenit 3SLB/DMSLB 3(0) - 3(0) - ----------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================= YEAR TO DATE LAUNCH SITE SUMMARY Launch sites, ranked by number of year-to-date orbital launch attempts. ========================================================= Site Overall Launches (Failures) ========================================================= Baikonur, Kazakhstan 24(0) Cape Canaveral, Florida 11(0) Plesetsk, Russia 8(1) Kourou, French Guyana 7(0) Vandenberg AFB, California 6(1) Kennedy Space Center, Florida 5(0)* Tanegashima, Japan 3(0) Jiuquan, China 2(0) Taiyaun, China 2(0) Sriharikota, India 2(0) XiChang, China 2(1) Sea Launch LP Odyssey (POR) 1(0) Wallops Island, VA 1(0) Kwajalein, RMI 1(0) Semnan, Iran 1(0) Musudan-ri, North Korea 1(1) Naro Space Center, South Korea 1(1) Kapustin Yar, Russia Dombarovsky, Russia Palmachim, Israel Kagoshima, Japan Svobodny, Russia Barents Sea (Sub Launched) ========================================================= *Does not include suborbital Ares I-X launch. 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