2015 orbital launches

In 2015, ExGalactic records 85 orbital launch attempts.

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

By country

LaunchesCountry
19China
18Kazakhstan
18USA
12French Guiana
8Russia
5India
4Japan
1Iran

Launches

  1. SpX CRS-5 — 10 January 2015, 09:47 UTC — Success
  2. MUOS-3 — 21 January 2015, 01:04 UTC — Success
  3. SMAP, FIREBIRD II A, FIREBIRD II B, GRIFEX, ExoCube — 31 January 2015, 14:22 UTC — Success
  4. IGS Radar Spare — 1 February 2015, 01:21 UTC — Success
  5. Inmarsat-5 F2 — 1 February 2015, 12:31 UTC — Success
  6. Fajr — 2 February 2015, 08:52 UTC — Success
  7. IXV — 11 February 2015, 13:40 UTC — Success
  8. DSCOVR — 11 February 2015, 23:03 UTC — Success
  9. Progress M-26M — 17 February 2015, 11:00 UTC — Success
  10. Bars-M (Kosmos 2503) — 27 February 2015, 11:01 UTC — Success
  11. Eutelsat 115 West B & ABS-3A — 2 March 2015, 03:50 UTC — Success
  12. MMS — 13 March 2015, 02:44 UTC — Success
  13. Ekspress AM7 — 18 March 2015, 22:05 UTC — Success
  14. GPS IIF-9 (USA-260) — 25 March 2015, 18:36 UTC — Success
  15. KOMPSat-3A — 25 March 2015, 22:08 UTC — Success
  16. IGS Optical 5 — 26 March 2015, 01:21 UTC — Success
  17. Soyuz TMA-16M — 27 March 2015, 19:42 UTC — Success
  18. Galileo L4 (FOC FM03-FM04) — 27 March 2015, 21:46 UTC — Success
  19. IRNSS-1D — 28 March 2015, 11:49 UTC — Success
  20. BDS I1-S — 30 March 2015, 13:52 UTC — Success
  21. Gonets M-21, Gonets M-22, Gonets M-23, Kosmos 2504 — 31 March 2015, 13:47 UTC — Success
  22. SpX CRS-6 — 14 April 2015, 20:10 UTC — Success
  23. Thor-7 & SICRAL-2 — 26 April 2015, 20:00 UTC — Success
  24. TürkmenÄlem 52E/MonacoSAT — 27 April 2015, 23:03 UTC — Success
  25. Progress M-27M — 28 April 2015, 07:09 UTC — Failure
  26. Mexsat-1 — 16 May 2015, 05:47 UTC — Failure
  27. OTV-4 (X-37B) (USA 261) (AFSPC-5) & ULTRASat cubesat deployer — 20 May 2015, 15:05 UTC — Success
  28. DirecTV 15 & Sky Mexico 1 — 27 May 2015, 21:16 UTC — Success
  29. Kobalt-M (Kosmos 2505) — 5 June 2015, 15:23 UTC — Success
  30. Sentinel-2A — 23 June 2015, 01:51 UTC — Success
  31. Persona (Kosmos 2506) — 23 June 2015, 16:44 UTC — Success
  32. Gaofen 8 — 26 June 2015, 06:22 UTC — Success
  33. SpX CRS-7 — 28 June 2015, 14:21 UTC — Failure
  34. Progress M-28M (60P) — 3 July 2015, 04:55 UTC — Success
  35. DMC-3A, DMC-3B, DMC-3C, CBNT-1 & DeOrbitSAIL — 10 July 2015, 16:28 UTC — Success
  36. GPS IIF-10 (USA-262) — 15 July 2015, 15:36 UTC — Success
  37. Star One C4 & MSG 4 — 15 July 2015, 21:42 UTC — Success
  38. Soyuz TMA-17M — 22 July 2015, 21:02 UTC — Success
  39. WGS-7 (USA-263) — 24 July 2015, 00:07 UTC — Success
  40. BDS M1-S & BDS M2-S — 25 July 2015, 12:29 UTC — Success
  41. Kounotori 5 (HTV-5) — 19 August 2015, 11:50 UTC — Success
  42. Eutelsat 8 West B & Intelsat 34 — 20 August 2015, 20:34 UTC — Success
  43. Yaogan-27 — 27 August 2015, 02:31 UTC — Success
  44. GSAT-6 — 27 August 2015, 11:22 UTC — Success
  45. Inmarsat-5 F3 — 28 August 2015, 11:44 UTC — Success
  46. Soyuz TMA-18M — 2 September 2015, 04:37 UTC — Success
  47. MUOS-4 — 2 September 2015, 10:18 UTC — Success
  48. Galileo L5 (FOC FM05-FM06) — 11 September 2015, 02:08 UTC — Success
  49. TJS-1 (TJSW-1) — 12 September 2015, 15:42 UTC — Success
  50. Gaofen 9 — 14 September 2015, 04:42 UTC — Success
  51. Ekspress AM8 — 14 September 2015, 19:00 UTC — Success
  52. 20 Amateur satellites — 19 September 2015, 23:01 UTC — Success
  53. 3 x Strela-3M (Kosmos 2507, Kosmos 2508, Kosmos 2509) — 23 September 2015, 21:59 UTC — Success
  54. SECM-1 ( Pujiang-1, Tianwang 1A, Tianwang 1B, Tianwang 1C ) — 25 September 2015, 01:41 UTC — Success
  55. Astrosat — 28 September 2015, 04:30 UTC — Success
  56. BDS I2-S — 29 September 2015, 23:13 UTC — Success
  57. Sky Muster I (NBN-Co 1A) & ARSAT-2 — 30 September 2015, 20:30 UTC — Success
  58. Progress M-29M (61P) — 1 October 2015, 16:49 UTC — Success
  59. Mexsat-2 (Morelos III) — 2 October 2015, 10:28 UTC — Success
  60. Jilin-1 — 7 October 2015, 04:13 UTC — Success
  61. APStar-9 — 16 October 2015, 16:16 UTC — Success
  62. Türksat 4B — 16 October 2015, 20:40 UTC — Success
  63. Tianhui-1C — 26 October 2015, 07:10 UTC — Success
  64. GPS IIF-11 (USA-265) — 31 October 2015, 16:13 UTC — Success
  65. Zhongxing-2C (Chinasat-2C) — 3 November 2015, 16:25 UTC — Success
  66. ORS-4 — 4 November 2015, 03:45 UTC — Failure
  67. Yaogan-28 — 8 November 2015, 07:06 UTC — Success
  68. Arabsat 6B & GSAT-15 — 10 November 2015, 21:34 UTC — Success
  69. EKS (Tundra) (Kosmos 2510) — 17 November 2015, 06:33 UTC — Success
  70. LaoSat-1 — 20 November 2015, 16:07 UTC — Success
  71. Telstar 12 VANTAGE — 24 November 2015, 06:50 UTC — Success
  72. Yaogan-29 — 26 November 2015, 21:24 UTC — Success
  73. LISA Pathfinder — 3 December 2015, 04:04 UTC — Success
  74. Kanopus-ST (Kosmos 2511) & KYuA-1 (Kosmos 2512) — 5 December 2015, 14:08 UTC — Failure
  75. Cygnus CRS Orb-4 (S.S. Deke Slayton II) — 6 December 2015, 21:44 UTC — Success
  76. ChinaSat-1C — 9 December 2015, 16:46 UTC — Success
  77. Elektro-L No.2 — 11 December 2015, 13:45 UTC — Success
  78. Garpun No. 12L (Kosmos-2513) — 13 December 2015, 00:19 UTC — Success
  79. Soyuz TMA-19M — 15 December 2015, 11:03 UTC — Success
  80. TeLEOS-1 — 16 December 2015, 12:30 UTC — Success
  81. DAMPE ( Wukong/Monkey King ) — 17 December 2015, 00:12 UTC — Success
  82. Galileo L6 (FOC FM08-FM09) — 17 December 2015, 11:51 UTC — Success
  83. Progress MS (62P) — 21 December 2015, 08:44 UTC — Success
  84. Ekspress AMU1 / (EUTELSAT 36C) — 24 December 2015, 21:31 UTC — Success
  85. Gaofen 4 — 28 December 2015, 16:04 UTC — Success

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

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