With just a few weeks to go and not so many launches on the manifest, it looks like 2001 will be a record low year in launches. 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 2 8 14 19 35 72 55 87 112 118 127 119 110 114 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 120 106 109 106 125 128 124 124 106 105 123 121 127 129 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 121 103 110 116 101 116 88 95 79 89 74 73 86 77 1999 2000 2001 73 82 60? After a steady increase in the early years, a level of around 120 launches a year was reached in 1965/1966 with a maximum of 129 in 1984. In 1990 the Sovjet-Union fell apart, which caused a steep decrease in 1991. The launch of the Iridium and Globalstar satellites kept the rate a bite higher in the late 90's. Will we reach 60 launches this year? Greetings and clear, dark skies Leo Barhorst Medemblik 52.76350 N 5.09114 E 2 m ASL www.home.zonnet.nl/leobarhorst/index.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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