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Everything You Ever Wanted
To Know About Spacecrafts !
50 Years of Space Exploration it Two Graphs
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No More Dreams, Mr. President (August 2006)
WARNING: This Encyclopedia includes some 300 tables and lists (300 web pages) that provide basic data, but it will take time (years?) to fulfill each and every one of them. Please be kind to this "work in progress." (You may wright to me at: claude-lafleur@sympatico.ca)
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| Yearly Summary of Spacecrafts Launched |
| Spacecraft by Countries |
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| | 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... spacecrafts, click on the country name on top of the table. |
| | To view the list of all, or Russian, or American, or European, etc. spacecrafts 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. |
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Launcher | Launch
Success |
Launch
Failure |
Total |
Success
Rate |
First
- Last
Launch |
| ==== | ============ | ====== | ====== | ====== | ======== | ========= |
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Saturn | 28 | 0 | 28 |
100 %
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1961
- 1975
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Space Shuttle | 116 | 1 | 117 |
99.15
%
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1981
- 2006
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F / Tsyklon | 224 | 10 | 234 |
95.73
%
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1964
- 2006
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Delta | 307 | 15 | 322 |
95.34
%
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1960
- 2006
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Kosmos C | 430 | 24 | 454 |
94.71
%
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1964
- 2006
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A / Semiorka | 1,574 | 89 | 1,663 |
94.65
%
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1957
- 2006
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Ariane | 164½ | 9½ | 174 |
94.54
%
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1979
- 2006
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N | 14 | 1 | 15 |
93.33
%
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1975
- 1987
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Titan | 203 | 17 | 220 |
92.24
%
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1964
- 2005
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| 10 | Pegasus | 34 | 3 | 37 | 91.89 % | 1990 - 2006 |
| 11 | Chang Zheng | 87 | 8 | 95 | 91.58 % | 1969 - 2006 |
| 12 | R-36 | 22½ | 2½ | 25 | 90.00 % | 1965 - 1971 |
| 13 | D / Proton | 288 | 36 | 324 |
88.89
%
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1965 - 2006 |
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Atlas | 296 | 40 | 336 |
88.10
%
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1958
- 2006
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| 15 | Scout | 87 | 12 | 99 | 87.88 % | 1960 - 1994 |
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Kosmos B | 144 | 21 | 165 |
87.27
%
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1961
- 1977
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Mu / M-V | 26 | 4 | 30 |
86.67
%
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1970
- 2006
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Zenit (J) | 51 | 8 | 59 |
86.44
%
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1985
- 2006
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| 19 | Thor | 210 | 33 | 243 | 86.36 % | 1958 - 1965 |
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Diamant | 10 | 2 | 12 |
83.33
%
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1965
- 1965
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H | 22 | 5 | 27 |
81.48
%
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1986
- 2006
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SLV (India) | 12½ | 8½ | 21 |
59.52
%
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1979
- 2006
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Juno, Jupiter, Redstone | 12 | 10 | 22 |
54.55
%
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1958
- 1961
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Vanguard | 3 | 8 | 11 |
27.27
%
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1957
- 1959
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| Minotaur | 6 | 0 | 6 |
100 %
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2000 - 2006 | |
| Shtil' | 2 | 0 | 2 |
100 %
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1998 - 2006 | |
| Strela | 1 | 0 | 1 |
100 %
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2003 | |
| Dnepr | 6 | 1 | 7 | 95.34 % | 1999 - 2006 | |
| Rokot | 8 | 1 | 9 | 88.89 % | 1994 - 2006 | |
| Taurus | 6 | 1 | 7 |
85.71
%
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1994 - 2004 | |
| Start | 6 | 1 | 7 | 85.71 % | 1993 - 2006 | |
| Athena | 5 | 2 | 7 |
71.91
%
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1995 - 2001 | |
| Shaviyt | 4 | 2 | 6 |
66.67
%
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1998 - 2002 | |
| Feng Bao | 4 | 4 | 8 |
50.00
%
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1994
- 1998
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| Energiya | 1 | 1 | 2 |
50.00
%
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1987
- 1988
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| Black Arrow | 1 | 1 | 2 |
50.00
%
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1994
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| Lambda | 1 | 4 | 5 |
20.00
%
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1966 - 1970 | |
| Falcon | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 % | 2006 | |
| Conestoga | 0 | 1 | 1 |
0 %
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1998
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| Volna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 % | 2005 | |
| KT-1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
0 %
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2002
- 2003
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| VLS | 0 | 3 | 3 |
0 %
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1993
- 1997
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| N-1 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
0 %
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1969
- 1972
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| Europa | 0 | 4 | 4 |
0 %
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1968
- 1971
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| NOTS | 0 | 6 | 6 |
0 %
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| Total | 4,415½ | 407½ | 4,823 |
91.55
%
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1957
- 2006
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Why an encyclopedia on all spacecrafts 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 compile the most comprehensive list of all spacecrafts ever launched (successfully or not) sponsored by every governments, organizations and corporations since October 1957. With more than 6,500 spacecrafts, 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 spacecrafts launched in a year are on the same web page. Additional
informations are available in the web links presented below each entry.
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Alphabetical Index of All spacecrafts (a ~1.0 MB webpage)
Spacecrafts launched in : (~1 MB webpage)
| 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 |
| Some Interesting Spacecraft Families |
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Of course, I welcome any additional informations
and corrections related to this work. Please contact me at claude-lafleur@sympatico.ca
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