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Does anyone know the next most prolific/frequent commercial launcher after SpaceX and what their annual average is? The frequency of their launches seem complet
by siavosh 6y ago
Does anyone know the next most prolific/frequent commercial launcher after SpaceX and what their annual average is? The frequency of their launches seem completely nuts.
- Rebelgecko 6y agoIts one if those things where you could probably game the metrics to justify half a dozen different answers. For example ISRO doesn't have many launches, but they do a lot of rideshares so I wouldn't be surprised if they're #1 or #2 in terms of individual satellites launched last year. It also depends a lot on what you consider a commercial launcher. In recent history, the Chinese Long March rockets have been dominating the numbers game (around 25 launches last year, vs around 20 Soyuz and 15 Falcon 9s). But the Long March family is a lot more diverse than most rocket families, so they're probably not #1 if you're comparing specific configurations. You also probably don't want to count rockets that missed space and ended up in the middle of a village, which hurts China's totals.
- __m 6y agoOr we admit that they have more launches
- Denvercoder9 6y agoWikipedia has statistics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_in_spaceflight#Orbital_launch_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_in_spaceflight#Orbital_la... Note though that 2019 was a pretty slow year for SpaceX, they launched almost twice as much in 2018.