This report summarizes U.S. and international launch activities for calendar year 2004 and provides a historical look at the past five years of commercial launch activities. The Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST) licensed nine commercial orbital launches and five suborbital launches in 2004. Of the nine orbital licensed launches, six were of U.S.-built vehicles. International Launch Services (ILS) launched three Atlas 2AS boosters, carrying the AMC 10, AMC 11, and Superbird 6 communications satellites; these launches were the last commercial missions for the Atlas 2 family of vehicles, which ILS and Lockheed Martin retired in 2004.
Commercial Space Transportation: 2004 Year in Review
2005
19 pages
Report
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Englisch
Space Launch Vehicles & Support Equipment , Air Transportation , Common Carrier & Satellite , Space transportation , Launch vehicles , Satellite orbits , Space commercialization , Small scientific satellites , Commercial spacecraft , Space industrialization , United States , Commercial space transportation