AIAA

ATK

C

COPV

CRS

ESA

FSO

HPFTP

JAXA

JSC

kg

L

LO2/LOX

LV

MIB

mph

MRCV

NASA

OA

OCO

OMS

psi

RP-1

SMA

SRB

SSME

STS

T

ULA

U.S.

USOS

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Alliant Techsystems

Celsius

Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel

Commercial Resupply Services

European Space Agency

Flight Safety Office

High Pressure Fuel Turbopump

Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency

Johnson Space Center

Kilogram

Launch

Liquid Oxygen

Launch Vehicle

Mishap Investigation Board

Miles Per Hour

Mixture Ratio Control Valve

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Orbital ATK

Orbiting Carbon Observatory

Orbital Maneuvering System

Pounds per Square Inch

Rocket Propellant-1 Kerosene

Safety and Mission Assurance

Solid Rocket Booster

Space Shuttle Main Engine

Space Transportation System

Time

United Launch Alliance

United States

United States On-orbit Segment

Significant Incidents & Close Calls in Human Spaceflight

 

Significant Incidents & Close Calls in Human Spaceflight: EVA Operations

 

Interactive Launch Vehicle History

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This Interactive Tool provides a launch vehicle history for orbital launch vehicles that have a direct connection to crewed space flight through the end of the 2018 calendar year.

 

Each vehicle mission is listed as an individual data point.  Cancelled missions are not included.  Launch vehicles which were destroyed during the normal processing flow with their payload are counted as a failed mission.

 

 

Complete Failure - the launcher suffered a fault that precluded the spacecraft from reaching mission orbit or caused catastrophic damage to the payload.

Partial Failure - the launcher had a fault, but the mission orbit was reached. Counted as failures for the realized and predicted rates.

Realized rate is the historical success rate based on: (cumulative number of successful launches)/(cumulative number of launch attempts).

Predicted rate is the likelihood that the first launch of the next year will be successful, based on: (cumulative successful launches +1)/(cumulative launches +2).