Highlights from spaceflight in 2015[a] | |
Orbital launches | |
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First | 10 January |
Last | 28 December |
Total | 87 |
Successes | 82 |
Failures | 4 |
Partial failures | 1 |
Catalogued | 83[b] |
National firsts | |
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Rockets | |
Maiden flights | |
Retirements | Dnepr-1 |
Crewed flights | |
Orbital | 4 |
Total travellers | 12 |
EVAs | 7 |
In 2015, the maiden spaceflights of the Chinese Long March 6 and Long March 11 launch vehicles took place.
A total of 87 orbital launches were attempted in 2015, of which 82 were successful, one was partially successful and four were failures. The year also saw seven EVAs by ISS astronauts. The majority of the year's orbital launches were conducted by Russia, the United States and China, with 27, 20 and 19 launches respectively.
Overview
[edit]In February 2015, the European Space Agency's experimental lifting body spacecraft, the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, successfully conducted its first test flight.
In March 2015, Ceres became the first dwarf planet to be visited by a spacecraft when Dawn entered orbit. In July 2015, New Horizons visited the Pluto-Charon system after a 9-year voyage, returning a trove of pictures and information about the former "ninth planet" (now classified as a dwarf planet). Meanwhile, the MESSENGER probe was deliberately crashed into Mercury after 4 years of in-orbit observations.
On 23 November 2015, the Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital rocket achieved its first powered soft landing near the launch site, paving the way for full reuse of its propulsion stage. On 21 December, the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Full Thrust took place, ending with a successful landing of its first stage.
Two old weather satellites, NOAA-16 and DMSP 5D-2/F13, broke up in 2015, creating several hundred pieces of space debris. In both cases, a battery explosion is suspected as the root cause.
Orbital launches
[edit]Suborbital flights
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26 January 09:13 |
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Alaska | Suborbital | Auroral | 26 January | Successful | ||
Apogee: ~160 kilometres (99 mi)? | |||||||
26 January 09:14 |
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Clemson | Suborbital | Auroral | 26 January | Successful | ||
Apogee: ~130 kilometres (81 mi)? | |||||||
26 January 09:46 |
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Alaska | Suborbital | Auroral | 26 January | Successful | ||
Apogee: ~160 kilometres (99 mi)? | |||||||
26 January 09:47 |
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Clemson | Suborbital | Auroral | 26 January | Successful | ||
Apogee: ~130 kilometres (81 mi)? | |||||||
28 January 10:41 |
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USU | Suborbital | Auroral | 28 January | Successful | ||
Apogee: ~590 kilometres (370 mi)? | |||||||
31 January 02:36:00[46] |
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DRDO | Suborbital | Missile test | 31 January | Successful | |||
Apogee: ~800 kilometres (500 mi) | |||||||
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DRDO | Suborbital | Missile test | 19 February | Successful | |||
Apogee: ~100 kilometres (62 mi) | |||||||
19 February 22:06 |
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Oslo/Andøya | Suborbital | Technology | 19 February | Successful | ||
Apogee: 365 kilometres (227 mi) | |||||||
22 February 07:52 |
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CNES | Suborbital | Microgravity | 22 February | Successful | ||
Apogee: 265 kilometres (165 mi) | |||||||
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US Navy | Suborbital | Missile test | 22 February | Successful | |||
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US Navy | Suborbital | Missile test | 22 February | Successful | |||
24 February 07:30 |
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DOD | Suborbital | Missile Defense Test | 24 February | Successful | |||
FTX-19 target, apogee: ~150 kilometres (93 mi)? | |||||||
24 February 07:30 |
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DOD | Suborbital | Missile Defense Test | 24 February | Successful | |||
FTX-19 target, apogee: ~150 kilometres (93 mi)? | |||||||
24 February 07:30 |
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DOD | Suborbital | Missile Defense Test | 24 February | Successful | |||
FTX-19 target, apogee: ~150 kilometres (93 mi)? | |||||||
25 February 12:26 |
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AFRL | Suborbital | Ionospheric research | 25 February | Successful | ||
Apogee: 300 kilometres (190 mi)? | |||||||
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RVSN | Suborbital | Missile test | 26 February | Launch failure[47] | |||
Yu-71 Hypersonic Vehicle Test | |||||||
5 March 01:44 |
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DLR | Suborbital | Atmospheric | 5 March | Successful | ||
Apogee: 126 kilometres (78 mi), 13 Super Loki meteorological rockets were also launched | |||||||
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ASFC | Suborbital | Missile test | 9 March | Successful | |||
Apogee: 500 kilometres (310 mi)? | |||||||
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RVSN | Suborbital | Missile test | 18 March | Successful | |||
23 March 10:36 |
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US Air Force | Suborbital | Test flight | 23 March | Successful | |||
GT214GM, Apogee: ~1,300 kilometres (810 mi) ? | |||||||
27 March 10:54 |
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US Air Force | Suborbital | Test flight | 27 March | Successful | |||
GT215GM, Apogee: ~1,300 kilometres (810 mi) ? | |||||||
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DSTO | Suborbital | Technology demonstration | 30 March | Successful | ||
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DRDO | Suborbital | Target | 9 April | Successful | |||
Apogee: ~100 kilometres (62 mi) | |||||||
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Army of Pakistan | Suborbital | Missile test | 15 April | Successful | ||
Apogee: 100 kilometres (62 mi) | |||||||
16 April 04:22 |
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Indian Army | Suborbital | Missile test | 16 April | Successful | |||
Apogee: 350 kilometres (220 mi) | |||||||
18 April 11:01 |
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University of Colorado Boulder | Suborbital | Student Research | 18 April | Successful | ||
Apogee: ~174 kilometres (108 mi) | |||||||
23 April 07:35 |
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DLR/ESA | Suborbital | Microgravity | 23 April | Successful | ||
Apogee: 261 kilometres (162 mi) | |||||||
27 April 04:55 |
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DLR/ESA | Suborbital | Microgravity | 27 April | Successful | ||
Apogee: 255 kilometres (158 mi) | |||||||
2 May 08:30:01 |
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University of Iowa | Suborbital | X-Ray Astronomy | 2 May | Successful | ||
Apogee: 272 kilometres (169 mi) | |||||||
20 May 10:37 |
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US Air Force | Suborbital | Test flight | 20 May | Successful | |||
GT212GM, Apogee: ~1,300 kilometres (810 mi) ? | |||||||
21 May 19:15 |
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CU Boulder | Suborbital | SDO calibration | 21 May | Launch failure | ||
Second stage failure, flight was terminated safety officials about four seconds into the second stage burn after data showed the vehicle was flying off-course. The payload carrying the experiment separated from the rocket and descended via parachute. | |||||||
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US Navy | Suborbital | ABM test | 6 June | Successful | |||
Maiden flight of SM-3 Block IIA Cooperative Development Controlled Test Vehicle-01 (SCD CTV-01) | |||||||
25 June 10:00 |
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CU Boulder | Suborbital | Student experiments | 25 June | Successful | ||
Apogee: 118 kilometres (73 mi) | |||||||
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MDA | Suborbital | ABM target | 26 June | Launch failure | |||
Aegis radar target | |||||||
30 June 04:55 |
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DLR | Suborbital | Technology demonstration | 30 June | Successful | ||
Apogee: 252 kilometres (157 mi) | |||||||
7 July 10:15 |
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NASA | Suborbital | Technology demonstration | 7 July | Successful | ||
Apogee: 350 kilometres (220 mi) | |||||||
29 July 08:30 |
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MDA | Suborbital | ABM target | 29 July | Successful | |||
Apogee: 100 kilometres (62 mi)?, Aegis MMW E1 target, successful intercept by SM-6 Dual I missile | |||||||
30 July 06:15 |
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MDA | Suborbital | ABM target | 30 July | Successful | |||
Apogee: 100 kilometres (62 mi)?, Aegis MMW E2 target, successful intercept by SM-2 Block IV missile | |||||||
12 August 10:14 |
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Various universities | Suborbital | Student Research | 12 August | Successful | ||
Apogee: ~156km (97 miles).[48] | |||||||
19 August 10:03 |
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US Air Force | Suborbital | Test flight | 19 August | Successful | |||
GT213GM, Apogee: ~1,300 kilometres (810 mi) ? | |||||||
22 August 15:13 |
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RVSN | Suborbital | Missile test | 22 August | Successful | |||
27 August 17:45 |
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MSU | Suborbital | Solar astronomy | 27 August | Successful | ||
Apogee: 185 miles (298 km)[49] | |||||||
3 September 17:01 |
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NASA / JAXA / IAC / IAS | Suborbital | Solar astronomy | 3 September | Successful | ||
Apogee: 167 miles (269 km)[50] | |||||||
11 September 11:00:00 |
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HU/UT/TU/JAXA | Suborbital | Microgravity | 11 September | Successful | ||
Apogee: 312 km[51] | |||||||
16 September 19:06 |
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NRL | Suborbital | Aeronomy | 16 September | Successful | ||
Apogee: 299 kilometres (186 mi) | |||||||
30 September 08:28 |
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DGA/Marine nationale | Suborbital | Test flight | 30 September | Successful | |||
Apogee: 500 kilometres (310 mi), apparently launched from the land test pad, rather than from a submarine. | |||||||
2 October 05:39:00 |
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SNSB | Suborbital | Atmospheric Research | 2 October | Successful | ||
Apogee: 246 kilometres (153 mi) | |||||||
7 October 23:07:00 |
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NASA GSFC | Suborbital | Rocket motor test | 7 October | Successful | ||
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Orbital ATK | Suborbital | Materials Testing | 7 October | Successful | ||
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NASA | Suborbital | Materials Testing | 7 October | Successful | ||
Apogee: 257.5 kilometers (160mi).[52] Test flight of the new Black Brant Mk4 sustainer motor. Other payloads included a cloud of barium and strontium, which was deployed to test the rocket's payload ejection system and was visible for miles along the East Coast of the United States. | |||||||
19 October 14:09:00 |
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SNSB | Suborbital | Atmospheric Research | 19 October | Successful | ||
Apogee: 244 kilometres (152 mi) | |||||||
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DOD | Suborbital | Target | 20 October | Successful | |||
SM-3 Target, apogee: ~100 kilometres (62 mi)? | |||||||
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US Navy | Suborbital | ABM test | 20 October | Successful | |||
First Aegis-Test in the North Atlantic, successful intercept, apogee: ~100 kilometres (62 mi)? | |||||||
21 October 12:45:00 |
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US Air Force | Suborbital | Test flight | 21 October | Successful | |||
GT216GM, Apogee: ~1,300 kilometres (810 mi) ? | |||||||
28 October 11:30 |
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RVSN | Suborbital | Missile test | 28 October | Successful | |||
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RVSN | Suborbital | Missile test | 30 October | Successful | |||
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VMF | Suborbital | Missile test | 30 October | Successful | |||
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VMF | Suborbital | Missile test | 30 October | Successful | |||
31 October 23:00 ? |
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PLA | Suborbital | ABM target | 31 October | Successful | |||
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31 October 23:00 ? |
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PLA | Suborbital | ABM test | 31 October | Successful | |||
Interceptor, successful intercept | |||||||
1 November 03:05 |
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MDA | Suborbital | THAAD target | 1 November | Successful | |||
Apogee: 300 kilometres (190 mi), successful intercepted | |||||||
1 November 03:07 |
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US Army/MDA | Suborbital | ABM test | 1 November | Successful | ||
Intercepted target missile, apogee: 100 kilometres (62 mi) | |||||||
1 November 03:10 |
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MDA | Suborbital | THAAD target | 1 November | Successful | ||
Apogee: 300 kilometres (190 mi), successful intercepted | |||||||
1 November 03:12 |
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US Army/MDA | Suborbital | ABM test | 1 November | Successful | ||
Intercepted target missile, apogee: 100 kilometres (62 mi) | |||||||
6 November 15:01 |
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NASA | Suborbital | Four technology demonstration experiments | 6 November | Successful | ||
Mission SL-10, Apogee: 120.7 kilometers (74.98 miles). First private suborbital rocket to demonstrate ejection of recoverable payloads.[53] | |||||||
8 November 02:00 |
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US Navy | Suborbital | Missile test | 8 November | Successful | |||
Demonstration and Shakedown Operation 26 (DASO-26) | |||||||
9 November 04:15 |
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DRDO | Suborbital | Missile Test | 9 November | Successful | |||
Apogee: ~850 kilometres (530 mi)? | |||||||
9 November 20:00 |
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US Navy | Suborbital | Missile test | 9 November | Successful | |||
Demonstration and Shakedown Operation 26 (DASO-26) | |||||||
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VMF | Suborbital | Missile test | 14 November | Successful | |||
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VMF | Suborbital | Missile test | 14 November | Successful | |||
Missile did not hit its targets at the Kura test site. The warheads did reach the Kamchatka region, but the miss was fairly large, but that was still not significant enough to abort the flight | |||||||
17 November 12:12 |
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RVSN | Suborbital | Missile test | 17 November | Successful | |||
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IGRC | Suborbital | Missile test | 21 November | Successful | ||
apogee: 150 kilometres (93 mi) | |||||||
23 November 17:21 |
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Blue Origin | Suborbital | Test flight | 23 November | Successful | ||
Apogee: 100.5 kilometres (62.4 mi). Second test flight of the New Shepard launch system, first to cross the Kármán line, and first to achieve a powered landing of its propulsion stage. | |||||||
25 November 04:17 |
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UMass | Suborbital | Astronomy | 25 November | Successful | ||
apogee: 217 kilometres (135 mi) | |||||||
30 November 07:25 |
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Dartmouth College | Suborbital | Auroral research | 30 November | Launch failure | ||
Third stage failure, payload recovered | |||||||
1 December 05:00 |
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SSC | Suborbital | Microgravity | 1 December | Successful | ||
apogee: 270 kilometres (170 mi) | |||||||
5 December 04:45 |
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U of M | Suborbital | Astronomy | 5 December | Successful | ||
apogee: 224 kilometres (139 mi) | |||||||
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US Navy | Suborbital | ABM test | 8 December | Successful | |||
Second flight of SM-3 Block IIA Cooperative Development Controlled Test Vehicle-02 (SCD CTV-02) | |||||||
10 December 06:12 |
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IAI/IDF | Suborbital | ABM target | 10 December | Successful | |||
Arrow-3 target, successfully intercepted, apogee: ~150 kilometres (93 mi) | |||||||
10 December 06:15 |
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IAI/IDF | Suborbital | ABM Test | 10 December | Successful | |||
First test of the Arrow-III against a target, successful intercept over the Mediterranean | |||||||
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MDA | Suborbital | SM-3-IB target | 10 December | Successful | |||
Apogee: 300 kilometres (190 mi), successful intercepted | |||||||
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US Navy | Suborbital | ABM test | 10 December | Successful | |||
First intercept flight test of a land-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) weapon system | |||||||
10 December 13:55 |
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US Army | Suborbital | Target | 10 December | Successful | |||
Target for MIM-104 Patriot PAC-3 MSE test, successfully intercepted | |||||||
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ASFC | Suborbital | Missile test | 11 December | Successful | |||
Apogee: 500 kilometres (310 mi)? | |||||||
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VMF | Suborbital | Missile test | 12 December | Successful | |||
13 December 04:32 |
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New Hampshire | Suborbital | Geospace | 13 December | Successful | ||
Apogee: 447 kilometres (278 mi) | |||||||
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ASFC | Suborbital | Missile test | 15 December | Successful | |||
18 December 06:52 |
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JHU | Suborbital | UV Astronomy | 18 December | Successful | ||
apogee: 282 kilometres (175 mi) | |||||||
24 December 17:55 |
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RVSN | Suborbital | Missile test | 24 December | Successful |
Deep space rendezvous
[edit]Date (GMT) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
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10 January | Chang'e 5-T1 | Injection into Selenocentric orbit | Departed from Earth–Moon L2 on 4 January. |
11 January[54] | Cassini | 109th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 970 kilometres (603 mi). |
12 February | Cassini | 110th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 1,200 kilometres (746 mi). |
6 March[55] | Dawn | Enters orbit of Ceres | 1st visit to a dwarf planet. |
16 March | Cassini | 111th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 2,275 kilometres (1,413 mi). |
30 April | MESSENGER | Impact to Mercury[56] | The crash occurred on the side of the planet not visible from Earth. |
7 May | Cassini | 112th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 2,722 kilometres (1,691 mi). |
16 June | Cassini | 4th flyby of Dione | Closest approach: 516 kilometres (321 mi). |
7 July | Cassini | 113th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 10,953 kilometres (6,806 mi). |
14 July | New Horizons | First flyby of Pluto and Charon | 2nd visit to a dwarf planet. Closest approach: 12,500 km (7,800 mi). |
17 August | Cassini | 5th flyby of Dione | Closest approach: 474 kilometres (295 mi). |
28 September | Cassini | 114th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 1,036 kilometres (643 mi). |
14 October | Cassini | Flyby of Enceladus | Closest approach: 1,839 kilometres (1,142 mi). |
28 October | Cassini | Flyby of Enceladus | Closest approach: 49 kilometres (30 mi). |
12 November | Cassini | 115th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 11,920 kilometres (7,407 mi). |
3 December[57] | Hayabusa2 | Flyby of Earth | Gravity assist |
3 December[58] | PROCYON | Flyby of Earth | Gravity assist en route to cancelled asteroid flyby. |
4 December[59] | Shin'en 2 | Flyby of Earth | Gravity assist |
7 December[60] | Akatsuki | Venus orbit insertion | Akatsuki's 2nd flyby of Venus and 2nd (successful) attempt at orbit insertion. |
19 December | Cassini | Flyby of Enceladus | Closest approach: 4,999 kilometres (3,106 mi). |
Extra-Vehicular Activities (EVAs)
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21 February 12:45 |
6 hours 41 minutes |
19:26 | Expedition 42/43 | ![]() |
Rigged and routed power and data cables at the forward end of the Harmony module as part of preparations for the installation of the International Docking Adapter at PMA-2.[61] |
25 February 11:51 |
6 hours 43 minutes |
18:34 | Expedition 42/43 | ![]() |
Completed power and data cable routing at the forward end of the Harmony module. Removed launch locks from forward and aft berthing ports of Tranquility to prepare for relocation of the Permanent Multipurpose Module and the installation of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module. Lubricated end effector of Canadarm2.[62][63] |
1 March 11:52 |
5 hours 38 minutes |
17:30 | Expedition 42/43 | ![]() |
Finished cable routing, antenna and retro-reflector installation on both sides of the ISS truss and on other modules in preparation for the installation of the International Docking Adapter at PMA-2 and 3.[64][65] |
10 August 14:20 |
5 hours 31 minutes |
19:51 | Expedition 44/45 | ![]() |
Installed gap spanners on the hull of the station for facilitating movement of crew members on future spacewalks, cleaned windows of the Zvezda Service Module, install fasteners on communications antennas, replaced an aging docking antenna, photographed various locations and hardware on Zvezda and nearby modules, and retrieved a space environment experiment.[66][67] |
28 October 12:03 |
7 hours 16 minutes |
19:19 | Expedition 45 | ![]() |
Prepared a Main Bus Switching Unit for repair, installed a thermal cover on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, lubricated elements of the Space Station Remote Manipulator System, and routed data and power cables to prepare for the installation of the International Docking Adaptor at PMA-2 and 3.[68] |
6 November 11:22 |
7 hours 48 minutes |
19:10 | Expedition 45 | ![]() |
Worked to restore a portion of the ISS's cooling system to its primary configuration, returning ammonia coolant levels to normal in the primary and backup radiator arrays.[69] |
21 December 13:45 |
3 hours 16 minutes |
16:01 | Expedition 46 | ![]() |
Released a brake on the Mobile Servicing System to allow it to be properly stowed prior to the arrival of a visiting Progress vehicle. Routed cables in preparation for the installation of the Nauka module and the International Docking Adapter, and retrieved tools from a toolbox.[70] |
Space debris events
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3 February 17:40[71] | DMSP 5D-2/F13 (USA-109) | Satellite breakup | 159[72] | The breakup was most likely caused by a battery explosion.[71][73] This satellite had been launched in 1995. Another satellite from the same series, DMSP 5D-2/F11, had broken up in 2004.[71] Debris are expected to remain in orbit for decades.[74] |
25 November 7:20[75] | NOAA-16 | Satellite breakup | 275[76] | As this weather satellite, launched in 2000, had a similar construction to the DMSP satellite which broke up in February 2015, the same cause is suspected (battery overheating and explosion).[77] |
22 December 16:00[78] | Briz-M upper stage | Booster explosion | 9[78] | A Briz-M upper-stage booster, having subsisted in geosynchronous transfer orbit since launching the Canadian Nimiq 6 commsat in 2012, was seen to have broken up into 9 pieces as of 26 January 2016. Orbital analysis of the debris allowed to time the explosion within one minute of 16:00 UTC on 22 December 2015.[78] Three other Briz-M upper stages had exploded earlier in 2007, 2010 and 2012.[79] |
Orbital launch statistics
[edit]By country
[edit]For the purposes of this section, the yearly tally of orbital launches by country assigns each flight to the country of origin of the rocket, not to the launch services provider or the spaceport. For example, Soyuz launches by Arianespace in Kourou are counted under Russia because Soyuz-2 is a Russian rocket.
Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures |
Remarks | |
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19 | 19 | 0 | 0 | ||
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9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | ||
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5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
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1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
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4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
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27 | 24 | 2 | 1 | Includes three European Soyuz launches from Kourou, French Guiana by Arianespace | |
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Zenit and Dnepr rockets were launched from Russia and/or Kazakhstan | |
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20 | 18 | 2 | 0 | ||
World | 87 | 82 | 4 | 1 |
By rocket
[edit]By family
[edit]Family | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
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Ariane | ![]() |
6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
Atlas | ![]() |
9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
Delta | ![]() |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
Falcon | ![]() |
7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | |
GSLV | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
H-II | ![]() |
4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
Long March | ![]() |
19 | 19 | 0 | 0 | |
PSLV | ![]() |
4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
R-7 | ![]() |
17 | 15 | 1 | 1 | |
R-36 | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Safir | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Strypi | ![]() |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Universal Rocket | ![]() |
10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | |
Vega | ![]() |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
Zenit | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
By type
[edit]Rocket | Country | Family | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
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Ariane 5 | ![]() |
Ariane | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
Atlas V | ![]() |
Atlas | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
Delta II | ![]() |
Delta | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Delta IV | ![]() |
Delta | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Dnepr | ![]() |
R-36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Final flight |
Falcon 9 | ![]() |
Falcon | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | |
GSLV | ![]() |
GSLV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
H-IIA | ![]() |
H-II | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
H-IIB | ![]() |
H-II | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Long March 2 | ![]() |
Long March | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
Long March 3 | ![]() |
Long March | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
Long March 4 | ![]() |
Long March | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
Long March 6 | ![]() |
Long March | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
Long March 11 | ![]() |
Long March | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
Proton | ![]() |
Universal Rocket | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | |
PSLV | ![]() |
PSLV | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
Safir | ![]() |
Safir | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Soyuz | ![]() |
R-7 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
Soyuz-2 | ![]() |
R-7 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | |
Super Strypi | ![]() |
Strypi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Maiden flight |
UR-100 | ![]() |
Universal Rocket | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Vega | ![]() |
Vega | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
Zenit | ![]() |
Zenit | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
By configuration
[edit]Rocket | Country | Type | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
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Ariane 5 ECA | ![]() |
Ariane 5 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
Atlas V 401 | ![]() |
Atlas V | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
Atlas V 421 | ![]() |
Atlas V | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Atlas V 501 | ![]() |
Atlas V | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Atlas V 551 | ![]() |
Atlas V | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Delta II 7320 | ![]() |
Delta II | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Delta IV Medium+ (4,2) | ![]() |
Delta IV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Delta IV Medium+ (5,4) | ![]() |
Delta IV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Dnepr | ![]() |
R-36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Final flight |
Falcon 9 v1.1 | ![]() |
Falcon 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | |
Falcon 9 Full Thrust | ![]() |
Falcon 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
GSLV Mk II | ![]() |
GSLV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
H-IIA 202 | ![]() |
H-IIA | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
H-IIA 204 | ![]() |
H-IIA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
H-IIB | ![]() |
H-IIB | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Long March 2D | ![]() |
Long March 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
Long March 3B/E | ![]() |
Long March 3 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
Long March 3B / YZ-1 | ![]() |
Long March 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
Long March 3C/E / YZ-1 | ![]() |
Long March 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
Long March 4B | ![]() |
Long March 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Long March 4C | ![]() |
Long March 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Long March 6 | ![]() |
Long March 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
Long March 11 | ![]() |
Long March 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
Proton-M / Blok DM-03 | ![]() |
Proton | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Proton-M / Briz-M | ![]() |
Proton | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | |
PSLV-CA | ![]() |
PSLV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
PSLV-XL | ![]() |
PSLV | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
Rokot / Briz-KM | ![]() |
UR-100 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Safir-1B | ![]() |
Safir | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Soyuz-2.1a | ![]() |
Soyuz-2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | |
Soyuz-2.1b | ![]() |
Soyuz-2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Soyuz-2.1b / Fregat-M | ![]() |
Soyuz-2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Soyuz ST-B / Fregat-MT | ![]() |
Soyuz-2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
Soyuz-2-1v / Volga | ![]() |
Soyuz-2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Soyuz-FG | ![]() |
Soyuz | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
Soyuz-U | ![]() |
Soyuz | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
Super Strypi | ![]() |
Strypi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Maiden flight |
Vega | ![]() |
Vega | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
Zenit-3F | ![]() |
Zenit | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
By spaceport
[edit]Site | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
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Baikonur | ![]() |
18 | 16 | 2 | 0 | |
Barking Sands | ![]() |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Cape Canaveral | ![]() |
17 | 16 | 1 | 0 | |
Dombarovsky | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Kourou | ![]() |
12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
Jiuquan | ![]() |
5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
Plesetsk | ![]() |
7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | |
Satish Dhawan | ![]() |
5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
Semnan | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Taiyuan | ![]() |
5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
Tanegashima | ![]() |
4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
Vandenberg | ![]() |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Xichang | ![]() |
9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 87 | 82 | 4 | 1 |
By orbit
[edit]- Transatmospheric
- Low Earth
- Low Earth (ISS)
- Low Earth (SSO)
- Low Earth (retrograde)
- Geosychronous
(transfer) - Medium Earth
- High Earth
- Heliocentric
Orbital regime | Launches | Achieved | Not achieved | Accidentally achieved |
Remarks |
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Transatmospheric | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Low Earth | 45 | 42 | 2 | 1 | 14 to ISS (1 launch failure, 1 failure post-separation) |
Geosynchronous/transfer | 32 | 31 | 1 | 0 | |
Medium Earth | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
High Earth | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 87 | 83 | 3 | 1 |
Gallery
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Soyuz TMA-16M launches carrying ISS year long mission crew members Scott Kelly and Mikhail Korniyenko and Soyuz commander Gennady Padalka.
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Photo of Ceres taken by the Dawn spacecraft at a distance of 13,600 km (8,500 mi).
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First stage of the Falcon 9 Flight 20 rocket immediately before touching down at Landing Zone 1.
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Scott Kelly working outside of the International Space Station
Notes
[edit]- ^ Clockwise from top:
- The first ever vertical landing of an orbital-class launch vehicle, during the Falcon 9's twentieth flight in December. The vehicle landed at Cape Canaveral LZ-1.
- A close-up view of one of many high albedo regions on the dwarf planet Ceres spotted by the Dawn spacecraft upon its arrival in March. Ceres was the second world to be visited by Dawn after the main belt asteroid 4 Vesta.
- Commander Scott Kelly is pulled from the Soyuz TMA-M Eridan following its landing in Kazakhstan in March. The landing signalled the conclusion of Kelly's and Mikhail Kornienko's year in space.
- A true colour view of Pluto, photographed by the New Horizons spacecraft during its historic flyby in July. Launched in 2006, the spacecraft traversed a distance of nearly 5 billion kilometres (3.1 billion miles) before performing the first ever reconnaissance of a Kuiper belt object (KBO).
- ^ The European experimental spaceplane IXV was briefly in orbit but did not receive a COSPAR catalog number.
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