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Table 1-54: Worldwide Commercial Space Launches

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	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	Total 1990-2001
TOTAL space launches	^R15	12	14	^R11	^R15	^R23	^R24	^R38	^R41	^R39	35	16	283
United States
Athena	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	^R1	^R1	3	0	0	6
Atlas	^R1	2	3	^R3	^R4	^R8	^R7	6	^R5	^R4	3	1	47
Conestoga	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Delta	^R5	4	3	1	1	1	^R3	7	11	5	2	1	44
Pegasus	0	0	0	1	0	^R1	^R1	3	^R4	^R2	2	0	14
Taurus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	^R1	1	0	1	3
Titan	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Total	^R9	6	6	^R5	^R5	^R12	^R11	^R17	^R22	^R15	7	3	118
Europe
Ariane 4	5	6	6	6	8	8	9	11	9	8	8	6	90
Ariane 5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	6
Total	5	6	6	6	8	8	9	11	9	8	12	8	96
Russia
Cosmos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	3
Dnepr	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2
Proton	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	4	5	6	2	25
Shtil	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
Soyuz	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	3	0	9
Start	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	3
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	7	5	13	13	3	43
Ukraine
Zenit 2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
China
Long March 2C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	1	0	0	6
Long March 2E	0	0	2	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
Long March 3	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
Long March 3B	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	3
Total	1	0	2	0	2	3	2	3	4	1	0	0	18
Sea Launch^a
Zenit 3SL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	^R2	3	2	7
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	^R2	3	2	7

KEY: R = revised.

^aSea Launch is an international venture involving organizations in four countries and uses its own launch facility outside national borders. Their first commercial launch, in 1999, was licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration.

NOTES: Acommercial launch is a launch that is internationally competed, i.e., available in principle to international launch providers, or whose primary payload is commercial in nature. FAA-licensed launches carrying captive government (NASA and DoD) or industry payloads (ORBCOMM, Delta 3 demosat, Zenit 3SL demosat, and others) are counted here. Data are for orbital launches only.

SOURCES: 1990–99: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation, personal communication, June 4, 2002.

2000-2001: Ibid., Commercial Space Transportation: 2001 Year in Review (Washington, DC: January 2002), Internet site http://ast.faa.gov/launch_info/ as of June 4, 2002.