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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Galileo Satellites 11 & 12 received an on-target orbital injection on Thursday by their Soyuz / Fregat launch vehicle as seen in orbital data for the two latest additions to Europe’s navigation satellite fleet.
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A Russian Soyuz 2-1B rocket blasted off from French Guiana on Thursday, lifting a pair of European Galileo Navigation Satellites into a Medium Earth Orbit 23,200 Kilometers high in a mission lasting close to four hours.
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A Russian Soyuz 2-1B rocket lifted off from the Guiana Space Center on December 17, 2015 on a mission to deliver the 11th and 12th Galileo Navigation Satellites to orbit as the year-closing mission from the tropical launch site.
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Russia’s Soyuz workhorse launch vehicle blasted off from its tropical launch site in French Guiana on Thursday at 11:51 UTC, embarking on a mission to deliver the 11th and 12th satellite in the Galileo satellite navigation system to orbit.
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A Soyuz rocket has been cleared to thunder off from its tropical launch site in South America on Thursday, carrying a pair of European Galileo Navigation Satellites into an orbit over 20,000 Kilometers in altitude.
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Saturday’s launch of a ULA Atlas V rocket carrying the GPS IIF-11 satellite reached its target orbit, as confirmed by tracking data released overnight.
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The Atlas V workhorse rocket is three-for-three in October, successfully conducting its third mission of this calendar month on Saturday and setting a new record in the ever increasing pace of United Launch Alliance missions.
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An Atlas V rocket raced into the skies over Florida’s Space Coast on Saturday, lifting off at 16:13 UTC to begin a three-and-a-half-hour mission to deliver the GPS IIF-11 satellite to orbit in the continued modernization of the Global Positioning System Satellite Fleet.
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An Atlas V rocket raced into the skies over Florida’s Space Coast on Saturday, lifting off at 16:13 UTC to begin a three-and-a-half-hour mission to deliver the GPS IIF-11 satellite to orbit in the continued modernization of the Global Positioning System Satellite Fleet.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifted off from Florida’s Space Coast on Saturday, embarking on a long mission to deliver the GPS IIF-11 satellite to Medium Earth Orbit in support of the continued modernization of the Global Positioning System satellite fleet.
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The launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket carrying the GPS IIF-11 satellite is being pushed back 24 hours to Saturday to provide additional time for a Ground Support Equipment issue to be addressed. Saturday’s launch window stretches from 16:13 to 16:32 UTC.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is standing tall atop its Florida launch pad for liftoff on Friday, aiming to become the third Atlas V to take flight this month – a new record for the Atlas V that can look back at 58 missions since its inauguration in 2002, but never managed to launch more than twice in a single calendar month.
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The Beidou-3 I2-S navigation satellite has entered Geosynchronous Orbit, according to tracking data that resumed for the satellite late in the week after an eight-day gap in data which is not uncommon for satellites when on the move.
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Tuesday’s night’s Long March 3B Launch (2015-053) delivered two objects to a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit according to tracking data published by the Joint Space Operations Center.
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China was back in action on Tuesday, launching a Long March 3B rocket to deliver the next Beidou-3 navigation satellite to orbit in the ongoing deployment of China’s Global Satellite Navigation System.
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