2002 orbital launches

In 2002, ExGalactic records 63 orbital launch attempts.

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

By country

LaunchesCountry
16USA
15Kazakhstan
12French Guiana
10Russia
3China
3Japan
3Other
1India

Launches

  1. Milstar 5 — 16 January 2002, 00:30 UTC — Success
  2. Insat 3C — 23 January 2002, 23:46 UTC — Success
  3. Tsubasa — 4 February 2002, 02:45 UTC — Success
  4. Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) — 5 February 2002, 20:58 UTC — Success
  5. Iridium 91 — 11 February 2002, 17:43 UTC — Success
  6. Echostar VII — 21 February 2002, 12:43 UTC — Success
  7. INTELSAT 904 — 23 February 2002, 06:59 UTC — Success
  8. Yantar-4K2 81 — 25 February 2002, 17:26 UTC — Success
  9. Envisat — 1 March 2002, 01:07 UTC — Success
  10. STS-109 — 1 March 2002, 11:22 UTC — Success
  11. TDRS 9 — 8 March 2002, 22:59 UTC — Success
  12. GRACE — 17 March 2002, 09:21 UTC — Success
  13. Progress M1-8 — 21 March 2002, 20:13 UTC — Success
  14. JCSAT 2A — 29 March 2002, 01:29 UTC — Success
  15. INTELSAT 903 — 30 March 2002, 17:25 UTC — Success
  16. US-K 81 — 1 April 2002, 22:06 UTC — Success
  17. STS-110 — 8 April 2002, 20:44 UTC — Success
  18. NSS 7 — 16 April 2002, 23:02 UTC — Success
  19. Soyuz TM-34 — 25 April 2002, 06:26 UTC — Success
  20. SPOT 5 — 4 May 2002, 01:31 UTC — Success
  21. Aqua — 4 May 2002, 09:54 UTC — Success
  22. DirecTV-5 — 7 May 2002, 17:00 UTC — Success
  23. Hai Yang 1 & Feng Yun 1D — 15 May 2002, 01:50 UTC — Success
  24. Ofeq-5 — 28 May 2002, 15:25 UTC — Success
  25. Parus 93 — 28 May 2002, 18:14 UTC — Success
  26. INTELSAT 905 — 5 June 2002, 06:44 UTC — Success
  27. STS-111 — 5 June 2002, 21:22 UTC — Success
  28. Ekspress A1R — 10 June 2002, 01:14 UTC — Success
  29. Galaxy 3C — 15 June 2002, 22:39 UTC — Success
  30. Iridium 97 & 98 — 20 June 2002, 09:33 UTC — Success
  31. NOAA 17 — 24 June 2002, 18:23 UTC — Success
  32. Progress M-46 — 26 June 2002, 05:36 UTC — Success
  33. Contour — 3 July 2002, 06:47 UTC — Success
  34. Stellat 5 & N-Star C — 5 July 2002, 23:22 UTC — Success
  35. Strela-3 131 & 132 — 8 July 2002, 06:35 UTC — Success
  36. Araks-N 2 — 25 July 2002, 15:13 UTC — Success
  37. Hot Bird 6 — 21 August 2002, 22:05 UTC — Success
  38. Echostar VIII — 22 August 2002, 05:15 UTC — Success
  39. Atlantic Bird 1 & Meteosat 8 — 28 August 2002, 22:45 UTC — Success
  40. INTELSAT 906 — 6 September 2002, 06:44 UTC — Success
  41. USERS & DRTS — 10 September 2002, 08:20 UTC — Success
  42. KALPANA-1 — 12 September 2002, 10:23 UTC — Success
  43. Hangtian Tsinghua 1-01 — 15 September 2002, 10:30 UTC — Failure
  44. Hispasat 1D — 18 September 2002, 22:04 UTC — Success
  45. Progress M1-9 — 25 September 2002, 16:58 UTC — Success
  46. Nadezhda-M — 26 September 2002, 14:27 UTC — Success
  47. STS-112 — 7 October 2002, 19:45 UTC — Success
  48. Foton-M No. 1 — 15 October 2002, 18:20 UTC — Failure
  49. Integral — 17 October 2002, 04:41 UTC — Success
  50. Zi Yuan-2 02 xing — 27 October 2002, 03:17 UTC — Success
  51. Soyuz TMA-1 — 30 October 2002, 03:11 UTC — Success
  52. Eutelsat W5 — 20 November 2002, 22:39 UTC — Success
  53. STS-113 — 24 November 2002, 00:49 UTC — Success
  54. Astra 1K — 25 November 2002, 23:04 UTC — Failure
  55. AlSat-1 — 28 November 2002, 06:07 UTC — Success
  56. TDRS 10 — 5 December 2002, 02:42 UTC — Success
  57. Hot Bird 7 & Stentor — 11 December 2002, 22:21 UTC — Failure
  58. Midori-2 — 14 December 2002, 01:31 UTC — Success
  59. NSS 6 — 17 December 2002, 23:04 UTC — Success
  60. AATiS-OSCAR-49 — 20 December 2002, 17:00 UTC — Success
  61. US-K 82 — 24 December 2002, 12:20 UTC — Success
  62. Uragan 80 to 82 — 25 December 2002, 07:37 UTC — Success
  63. Nimiq 2 — 29 December 2002, 23:16 UTC — Success

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

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