The year 2017 saw a total of 90 known orbital launch attempts from seven nations and space ports in eight different countries. 2017 had the second most orbital launch attempts of any year in the current century, short of 92 launches in 2014 and showing a slight increase from 2016 that had 85 known launch attempts.
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The year 2016 saw a total of 85 known orbital launch attempts operated by eight nations from space ports in
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A Rockot launch vehicle rumbled into the skies over the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on Saturday, carrying into orbit Russia’s GEO IK-2 No. 2 Geodesy satellite in an attempt to close a gap in the collection of geodynamic data.
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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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Thursday’s Rockot launch (2015-050) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome delivered four objects to orbit according to tracking data provided by the Joint Space Operations Center.
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A Russian Rockot launch vehicle thundered into the night skies over the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on Wednesday, blasting off from its above-ground launch container at Site 133/3 at 22:00 UTC to loft a trio of Rodnik military communication satellites into orbit, likely joined by a fourth spacecraft dedicated to technology demonstrations under the framework of the Russian military’s Kosmos satellite program.
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