1996 orbital launches

In 1996, ExGalactic records 77 orbital launch attempts.

Counts include only launches confirmed by at least two independent sources.

By country

LaunchesCountry
28USA
16Kazakhstan
11French Guiana
11Russia
5Other
4China
1India
1Japan

Launches

  1. STS-72 — 11 January 1996, 09:41 UTC — Success
  2. PAS 3R & MEASAT 1 — 12 January 1996, 23:10 UTC — Success
  3. Mugunghwa 2 — 14 January 1996, 11:10 UTC — Success
  4. Parus 85 — 16 January 1996, 15:33 UTC — Success
  5. Gorizont 31 — 25 January 1996, 09:56 UTC — Success
  6. Palapa C1 — 1 February 1996, 01:15 UTC — Success
  7. N-Star b — 5 February 1996, 07:19 UTC — Success
  8. INTELSAT 708 — 14 February 1996, 19:01 UTC — Failure
  9. NEAR Shoemaker — 17 February 1996, 20:43 UTC — Success
  10. Gonets-D 319 to 321 & Strela-3 113 to 115 — 19 February 1996, 00:58 UTC — Success
  11. Raduga 33 — 19 February 1996, 08:19 UTC — Success
  12. Soyuz TM-23 — 21 February 1996, 12:34 UTC — Success
  13. STS-75 — 22 February 1996, 20:18 UTC — Success
  14. Polar — 24 February 1996, 11:24 UTC — Success
  15. REX II — 9 March 1996, 01:33 UTC — Success
  16. INTELSAT 707 — 14 March 1996, 07:11 UTC — Success
  17. Yantar-4K2 75 — 14 March 1996, 17:40 UTC — Success
  18. IRS-P3 — 21 March 1996, 04:53 UTC — Success
  19. STS-76 — 22 March 1996, 08:13 UTC — Success
  20. GPS IIA-16 — 28 March 1996, 00:21 UTC — Success
  21. INMARSAT III F-1 — 3 April 1996, 23:01 UTC — Success
  22. Astra 1F — 8 April 1996, 23:09 UTC — Success
  23. M-SAT 1 — 20 April 1996, 22:36 UTC — Success
  24. Priroda — 23 April 1996, 11:48 UTC — Success
  25. MSX — 24 April 1996, 12:27 UTC — Success
  26. Taifun-1B 14 — 24 April 1996, 13:00 UTC — Success
  27. Mercury 15 — 24 April 1996, 23:37 UTC — Success
  28. BeppoSAX — 30 April 1996, 04:31 UTC — Success
  29. Progress M-31 — 5 May 1996, 07:04 UTC — Success
  30. SLDCOM 4 — 12 May 1996, 21:32 UTC — Success
  31. Yantar-1KFT 18 — 14 May 1996, 08:55 UTC — Failure
  32. Palapa C2 & AMOS 1 — 16 May 1996, 01:56 UTC — Success
  33. Miniature Sensor Technology Integration 3 (MSTI-3) — 17 May 1996, 02:44 UTC — Success
  34. STS-77 — 19 May 1996, 10:30 UTC — Success
  35. Galaxy 9 — 24 May 1996, 01:10 UTC — Success
  36. Gorizont 32 — 25 May 1996, 02:05 UTC — Success
  37. Cluster — 4 June 1996, 12:34 UTC — Failure
  38. INTELSAT 709 — 15 June 1996, 06:55 UTC — Success
  39. STS-78 — 20 June 1996, 14:49 UTC — Success
  40. Yantar-4K2 76 — 20 June 1996, 18:44 UTC — Failure
  41. Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) — 2 July 1996, 07:48 UTC — Success
  42. Quasar 11 — 3 July 1996, 00:30 UTC — Success
  43. Apstar 1A — 3 July 1996, 10:47 UTC — Success
  44. Arabsat IIA & Türksat 1C — 9 July 1996, 22:24 UTC — Success
  45. GPS IIA-17 — 16 July 1996, 00:50 UTC — Success
  46. UHF F/O F7 — 25 July 1996, 12:41 UTC — Success
  47. Progress M-32 — 31 July 1996, 20:00 UTC — Success
  48. Italsat F2 & Télécom 2D — 8 August 1996, 22:49 UTC — Success
  49. Molniya-1T 89 — 14 August 1996, 22:20 UTC — Success
  50. Midori — 17 August 1996, 01:53 UTC — Success
  51. Soyuz TM-24 — 17 August 1996, 13:18 UTC — Success
  52. Zhongxing 7 — 18 August 1996, 10:27 UTC — Failure
  53. Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST) — 21 August 1996, 09:47 UTC — Success
  54. Interbol 2, Magin 5 & MuSat 1 — 29 August 1996, 05:22 UTC — Success
  55. Tselina-2 18 — 4 September 1996, 09:01 UTC — Success
  56. Parus 86 — 5 September 1996, 12:47 UTC — Success
  57. INMARSAT III F-2 — 6 September 1996, 17:37 UTC — Success
  58. GE 1 — 8 September 1996, 21:49 UTC — Success
  59. Echostar II — 11 September 1996, 00:00 UTC — Success
  60. GPS IIA-18 — 12 September 1996, 08:49 UTC — Success
  61. STS-79 — 16 September 1996, 08:54 UTC — Success
  62. Ekspress 2 — 26 September 1996, 17:50 UTC — Success
  63. Fanhui Shi Weixing (17) — 20 October 1996, 07:20 UTC — Success
  64. Molniya-3 62L — 24 October 1996, 11:37 UTC — Success
  65. High Energy Transient Explorer (HETE) & Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas-B (SAC-B) — 4 November 1996, 17:08 UTC — Failure
  66. Mars Global Surveyor — 7 November 1996, 17:00 UTC — Success
  67. Arabsat 2B & MEASAT 2 — 13 November 1996, 22:40 UTC — Success
  68. Mars-96 — 16 November 1996, 20:48 UTC — Success
  69. STS-80 — 19 November 1996, 19:55 UTC — Success
  70. Progress M-33 — 19 November 1996, 23:20 UTC — Success
  71. Hot Bird 2 — 21 November 1996, 20:47 UTC — Success
  72. Mars Pathfinder — 4 December 1996, 06:58 UTC — Success
  73. US-PM 8 — 11 December 1996, 12:00 UTC — Success
  74. INMARSAT III F-3 — 18 December 1996, 01:57 UTC — Success
  75. Parus 87 — 20 December 1996, 06:43 UTC — Success
  76. KH-11 12 — 20 December 1996, 18:04 UTC — Success
  77. Bion 11 — 24 December 1996, 13:50 UTC — Success

Sources: Jonathan's Space Report (GCAT), CC-BY; CelesTrak; Launch Library 2.

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