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Table 1-39: Worldwide Commercial Space Launches1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011TOTAL space launches 15 12 14 11 15 23 24 38 41 39 35 16 24 17 15 18 21 23 28 24 23 18 494United States, total 9 6 6 5 5 12 11 17 22 15 7 3 5 5 6 1 2 3 6 4 4 0 154Athena 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6Atlas 1 2 3 3 4 8 7 6 5 4 3 1 3 4 5 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 63Conestoga 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1Delta 5 4 3 1 1 1 3 7 11 5 2 1 2 0 0 0 1 3 2 2 2 0 56Falcon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 5Pegasus 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 4 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 16Taurus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4Titan 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3Europe, total 5 6 6 6 8 8 9 11 9 8 12 8 10 4 1 5 5 6 5 5 6 4 147Ariane 4 5 6 6 6 8 8 9 11 9 8 8 6 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 98Ariane 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 3 3 1 5 5 6 5 5 6 4 49Russia, total 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 5 13 13 3 8 5 5 8 9 12 11 10 13 10 134Cosmos 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 8Dnepr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 2 1 3 1 15Kosmos 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 3Proton 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 4 5 6 2 5 1 4 4 4 4 6 7 8 7 75Rockot 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 8Shtil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1Soyuz 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 12Soyuz 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 2 7Start 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4Volna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1Ukraine, total 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1Zenit 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1China, total 1 0 2 0 2 3 2 3 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 21Long March 2C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6Long March 2E 0 0 2 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6Long March 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3Long March 3B 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 6India, total 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1PSLV 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1Sea Launch a , total 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 1 3 3 4 5 1 6 4 0 2 36Zenit 3SL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 1 3 3 4 5 1 6 4 0 2 36aSea Launch is an international venture involving organizations in four countries and uses its own launch facility outside nationalborders. Their first commercial launch, in 1999, was licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration. Sea Launch filed for Chapter11 bankruptcy protection in June 2009 and thus had no launches in the second half <strong>of</strong> the year.TOTAL1990-2011NOTESA commercial launch is a launch that is internationally competed (i.e., available in principle to international launch providers) orwhose primary payload is commercial in nature. FAA-licensed launches carrying captive government (NASA and DOD) or industrypayloads (ORBCOMM, Delta 3 demosat, Zenit 3SL demosat, and others) are counted here. Data are for orbital launches only.SOURCES1990–99: U.S. <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Transportation</strong>, Federal Aviation Administration, Associate Administrator for Commercial Space<strong>Transportation</strong>, personal communication, June 4, 2002.2000-11: U.S. <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Transportation</strong>, Federal Aviation Administration, Commercial Space <strong>Transportation</strong>: Year in Review(Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table 2, available at http://www.faa.gov/about/<strong>of</strong>fice_org/headquarters_<strong>of</strong>fices/ast/ as <strong>of</strong> Mar. 5,2012.

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