The final score of orbital launches in 2021 was 146 launch attempts – record number of launch attempts since space launch history began with the launch of Sputnik in 1957. The previous record of 139 orbital launches was back in 1967. The “winner”...
Quoting the Iranian Ministry of Defence, Iran’s Mehr news agency website has reported that a Simorgh (Safir 2A) rocket has successfully launched three payloads – but the success is disputed. The payloads – assumed to be small satellites – were announced as...
China made two final launches in 2021. It successfully launched a Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, China, at 1113 GMT on 29 December. The vehicle was carrying the Tianhui 4 cartography satellite for the PLA (Peoples...
Russia successfully launched a Soyuz 2.1B/Fregat vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan, at 1310 GMT on 27 December. The vehicle was carrying 36 OneWeb communications satellites. This launch brings the total of OneWeb satellites launched to...
China successfully launched a Long March 4C (CZ-2D) vehicle from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, China, at 0311 GMT on 26 December 2021. The launch vehicle was carrying the Ziyuan 1-2E imaging satellite and the Xixwan_3 (CAS-9) technology demonstrator and amateur...
A Long March 7A (CZ-7A) rocket launched a pair of Shiyan 12 satellies, Shiyan 12-01 and Shiyan 12-02 on a mission dubbed HOTS (High Orbit Test Satellite) into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. The launch occurred from the Wenchang satellite launch centre, Hainan Island...
