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Table 1-36: Worldwide Commercial Space Launches
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| TOTAL space launches |
15 |
12 |
14 |
11 |
15 |
23 |
24 |
38 |
41 |
39 |
35 |
16 |
24 |
17 |
324 |
| United
States, total |
9 |
6 |
6 |
5 |
5 |
12 |
11 |
17 |
22 |
15 |
7 |
3 |
5 |
5 |
128 |
| Athena |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
| Atlas |
1 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
8 |
7 |
6 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
54 |
| Conestoga |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Delta |
5 |
4 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
7 |
11 |
5 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
46 |
| Pegasus |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
15 |
| Taurus |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
| Titan |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
| Europe,
total |
5 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
8 |
8 |
9 |
11 |
9 |
8 |
12 |
8 |
10 |
4 |
110 |
| Ariane
4 |
5 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
8 |
8 |
9 |
11 |
9 |
8 |
8 |
6 |
7 |
1 |
98 |
| Ariane
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
12 |
| Russia,
total |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
7 |
5 |
13 |
13 |
3 |
8 |
5 |
56 |
| Cosmos |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
| Dnepr |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
| Proton |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
6 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
2 |
5 |
1 |
31 |
| Rockot |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
| Shtil |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Soyuz |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
11 |
| Start |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
| Ukraine,
total |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Zenit
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| China,
total |
1 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
18 |
| Long
March 2C |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
| Long
March 2E |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
| Long
March 3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
| Long
March 3B |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
| Sea
Launcha, total |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
11 |
| Zenit
3SL |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
11 |
a Sea 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.
NOTE
A commercial 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.
2000-2003: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Commercial Space Transportation: 2003 Year in Review (Washington, DC: January 2004), Internet site http://ast.faa.gov/ as of June 7, 2004.
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