TS News - Launch Successes And Failures 1996

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• Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 23:05:22 +0900
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TELE-satellit News, 6 January 1997

Launch Successes And Failures 1996
  CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA, 97/01/03 (JSR) -- The following is an annual roundup
of all launches and failures in 1996. It was compiled by Jonathan McDowell
of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and carried in a special
edition of his "Space Report" newsletter. Full text of the newsletter is
available on the World Wide Web at
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/QEDT/jcm/space/jsr/jsr.html 

 Launch Vehicles
 
 Launch vehicles are listed by type, in order of number of launches. The
totals are similar to last year, with a dramatic increase in the number of
Deltas and a continuing decline in the Soyuz launch rate.

US vehicles:            Launched        Failures
 NASA Space Shuttle     7               0
 Lockheed Martin Titan  4               0
 Lockheed Martin Atlas  7               0
 MDSSC Delta            10              0
 OSC Pegasus            5               1*
 
Russian vehicles:
 TsSKB-Progress Soyuz   12              2
 Krunichev Proton       8               2*
 Polyot Kosmos          4               0

Other vehicles:
 Arianespace Ariane     10              0
 Arianespace Ariane-5   1               1
 NASDA H-II             1               0
 China Long March       4               2 (1*)
 Yuzhnoe Tsiklon        2               0
 Yuzhnoe Zenit          1               0
 ISRO PSLV              1               0 
--------------------------------------------
Total                  77               8

*: Reached an orbit despite failure


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