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Space exploration in 2016

For space missions in 2015 click here

The world's orbital launch attempts in 2016 (as of May 6, 2024 ):

*Third stage underperformed during the launch; compensated by Fregat's extended firing.

**Spacecraft failed to reach its orbit as planned after nominal operation of the launch vehicle;

***Unspecified problems were reported aboard the satellite immediately after orbital insertion.

The 2016 space launch score card (as of May 6, 2024 ):

*Delivered into wrong orbit;

**failed launch;

***In case of an equal number of launches, the country that reached that number first is listed at the top;

****Includes on-pad pre-launch explosion of a Falcon-9 rocket with the AMOS-6 satellite, which is not added to the total tally of orbital launch attempts.

Canceled missions

April: A Dnepr booster to launch a pair of Iridium NEXT satellites from Silo facility No. 370/11 in Dombarovsky. (The mission was postponed from June 2015 and later moved to a Falcon rocket.)

2015: Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat-SB rocket to launch the Arkon-2M No. 1 remote-sensing satellites for all-weather radar observations of the Earth surface from a 550-600-kilometer Sun-synchronous orbit. The launch was originally promised in 2009 (299) and later in 2012-2013. In 2010, a pair of spacecraft was scheduled for launch in 2013, however by 2012, the first Arkon-2M was expected to fly in 2015 and the second in 2016. The Arkon-2M program was canceled by November 2012 to free funds for Arktika, Resurs and Obzor projects.

2014-2015: Russia to launch a solar telescope -- Koronas-4-Monitor -- to replace a failed Koronas-Foton spacecraft. (A February 2010 proposal from Astrophysics Institute at the National Nuclear Research University.) By the end of March 2010, a project to replace Koronas-Foton was identified as Solaris by the Solar System division within Space Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The division recommended Lebedev Physics Institute, FIAN, as a main developer of the satellite's payload. The issue of the spacecraft bus remained open at the time, with NPO Lavochkin's yet-to-be-flown Navigator platform as one of the contenders. Unlike Koronas-Foton, the new telescope was expected to be narrowly specialized in solar observations and it was to be inserted into very high orbit to minimize the shadow from Earth and the influence of the planet's radiation belt. As of April 2010, the project was yet to be approved for the inclusion into the Russian space program or to receive any funding.

2015: Russia to launch MKA FKI No. 5 ARKA orbital solar observatory. (Canceled in March 2014, later re-configured.

For missions in 2017 click here

This page is compiled by Anatoly Zak

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A Soyuz-2-1b rocket lifts off with the GLONASS-M-51 satellite on Feb. 7, 2016. Click to enlarge. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense

A Proton rocket lifts off with ExoMars-2016 spacecraft on March 14. Click to enlarge. Credit: ESA

A 1-to-4 scale model of the Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module from the first phase of the ExoMars project launched on March 14. Copyright © 2010 Anatoly Zak

Soyuz MS-01 lifts off on July 7, 2016. Click to enlarge. Credit: Roskosmos