Space Launch Totals by Site

If plans hold, Cape Canaveral/KSC will host more space
launches during 2003 than any other site - the first
time this has happened since the late 1990s.

Table 1 is list of launch sites, ranked by number of
orbital launch attempts during 2000-2003. Table 2
identifies the average number of launches per pad.

Table 1.
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Launches(Failures)[Planned 2003]
Site 2000 2001 2002 2003* Total*
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan 30(0) 16(0) 15(1) 10(0)[3] 71(1)
Cape Canaveral/KSC, FL 19(0) 16(0) 14(0) 15(1)[2] 64(1)
Kourou, French Guyana 12(0) 8(1) 12(1) 4(0) 36(2)
Plesetsk, Russia 5(2) 6(0) 10(1) 7(0)[1] 28(3)
Vandenberg AFB, CA 8(0) 5(1) 3(0) 5(0)[1] 21(1)
Sea Launch Platform 3(1) 2(0) 1(0) 3(0) 9(1)
Xi Chang, China 4(0) - - 2(0)[1] 6(0)
Taiyuan, China 1(0) - 3(1) 2(1) 6(2)
Tanegashima, Japan - 1(0) 3(0) 1(0)[1] 5(0)
Sriharikota, India - 2(1) 1(0) 2(0) 5(1)
Jiuquan, China - 1(0) 2(0) 2(0) 5(0)
Svobodny, Russia 1(0) 1(0) - - 2(0)
Kagoshima, Japan 1(1) - - 1(0) 2(1)
Palmanchim, Isreal - - 1(0) - 1(0)
Kodiak LC, AL - 1(0) - - 1(0)
Kwajalien, Marshall Is. 1(0) - - - 1(0)
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Total* 263(13)

*Year to Date 11/25/2003

Table 2
Site Launches Pads% Avg/
2000-03* Year/Pad
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan 71(1) 8 2.2
Cape Canaveral/KSC, FL 64(1) 10% 1.6
Kourou, French Guyana 36(2) 2 4.5
Plesetsk, Russia 28(3) 5 1.4
Vandenberg AFB, CA 21(1) 7% 0.8
Sea Launch Platform 9(1) 1 2.3
Xi Chang, China 6(0) 1 1.5
Taiyuan, China 6(2) 2 0.8
Tanegashima, Japan 5(0) 1 1.3
Sriharikota, India 5(1) 1 1.3
Jiuquan, China 5(0) 2 0.6
Svobodny, Russia 2(0) 1 0.5
Kagoshima, Japan 2(1) 1 0.5
Palmanchim, Isreal 1(0) 1 0.3
Kodiak LC, AL 1(0) 1 0.3
Kwajalien, Marshall Is. 1(0) 1% 0.3
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Totals/Average 263(13) 43 1.5

%Includes L-1011 drop launch platform
*Year to Date 11/25/2003

Observations:

1. Five sites accounted for 220 of the 263 launches (83.7%)
during the period.

2. Ten of the 16 launch sites handled an average of less
than 1.5 launches per year during the period. Eight sites,
including Vandenberg AFB, hosted less than one launch per
year per pad/platform.

3. 2003 may be the slowest year at Baikonur since the early
1960s.

4. Sea Launch Platform "Odyssey" may crack into the top
five busiest category next year, with six launches planned.

5. There is a lot of underused launch infrastructure on
this planet. Kourou had the highest launch density by far
during the period, with an average of 4.5 per year per pad.
Sea Launch ranked second in this category. Orbital's L-1011
"Stargazer" handled an average of 1.8 Pegasus launches per
year during the period.

- Ed Kyle

(ed kyle) wrote in message . com...

Kodiak LC, AL - 1(0) - - 1(0)

Ooops.

Kodiak Launch Complex, ALASKA (AK), not ALABAMA (AL).
They build 'em in Alabama, but they don't launch 'em.

- Ed Kyle