relative safety

How safe is safe?

Launch Vehicle Subsystem Failures, 1980-1999
Country Propulsion Avionics Separation Electrical Structural Other Unknown
Total
U.S. 15 4 8 1
1 1 30
CIS/USSR 33 3 2
1 19 58
Europe 7 1
8
China 3 1
2 6
Japan 2 1
3
India 1 1 1 1
1 5
Israel 1
1
Brazil 2
2
N. Korea 1 1
Total 64 11 11 2
3 3 20 114



Tables do not post well so the article is (also VERY nice photos):

http://www.aero.org/publications/cro...er2001/03.html





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