The year 2015 saw 87 orbital launch attempts from spaceports across the globe – 84 missions reached orbit in a year that saw 82 successful orbital launches. Here are photos of all of 2015’s space launches.
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The year 2015 saw a total of 87 known orbital launch attempts operated by seven nations from space ports in eight countries.
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The Gaofen-4 satellite enjoyed an on-target orbital insertion on Monday in the final space launch of 2015, orbital data released later in the day shows.
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A Chinese Long March 3B Rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Monday, lifting the Gaofen-4 satellite to have a watchful eye on Planet Earth, becoming China’s first remote sensing satellite operated from Geosynchronous Orbit.
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#GoodMorning #Africa! Your brilliant colors are a great way to start the day. #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/HbesQzdXy2 — Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) December
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A spent Payload Assist Module Type D re-entered the atmosphere on Monday after six years in orbit. Sitting atop a Delta II rocket, the PAM-D helped boost a GPS navigation satellite to orbit.
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Thursday night’s Proton-M/Briz-M launch delivered the Ekspress AMU-1 satellite to its intended orbit, orbital data issued by the Joint Space Operations Center indicates.
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A Russian Proton rocket thunders into the night skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome, beginning its year-ending mission to deliver the Ekspress AMU-1 satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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A Proton-M rocket climbed into the night skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Thursday, starting a long overnight mission to deliver the Ekspress AMU-1 communications satellite to orbit and close out a busy year of launches from Russian Cosmodromes.
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A Russian Proton-M rocket suffered a rare launch scrub Wednesday night as unfavorable winds aloft forced a 24-hour delay of the planned launch of the Ekspress AMU-1 communications satellite.
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Russia’s Proton-M rocket is set for its year-closing mission on Wednesday, launching the Ekspress AMU-1 communications satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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A Russian government-operated Proton-M rocket rolls to its Baikonur Launch Pad to prepare for its year-closing mission, lifting the Ekspress AMU-1 satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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Just days after the blazing re-entry of the rocket from the launch of a three-man crew to the International Space Station dazzled observers in Newfoundland and Labrador, another Soyuz rocket stage was spotted re-entering over North America.
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The Arkyd-3R CubeSat operated by Planetary Resources re-entered the atmosphere on December 23, 2015 after five months in orbit to test systems for future miniature space telescope satellites.
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The Progress MS spacecraft made a flawless rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station on Wednesday, arriving at the orbiting laboratory for a stay of eight months, facilitating the transfer of over 2,400 Kilograms of cargo delivered by the spacecraft.
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Spacewalk veterans Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra completed an excursion of three hours and 16 minutes on Monday, making quick work in rectifying an undesired situation involving the Space Station’s Mobile Transporter that had gotten stuck in between Work Sites.
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NASA announced on Tuesday that the Mars InSight mission is forced to suspend its plans of a March 2016 launch after the key instrument of the stationary Mars lander suffered a series of leaks that can not be repaired in time to meet the planetary launch window.
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