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🌊Sea Launch Launch History

Every orbital and deep-space launch attempt attributed to Sea Launch, year by year, drawn from the GCAT launch catalog. Country is the launching state of the pad.

Data current as of 2026-07-20.

Sea Launch made 36 orbital and deep-space launch attempts between 1999 and 2014. Of those, 33 succeeded and 3 failed. The success rate comes to 92 percent. The busiest year was 2006, with 5 launches. The most recent launch in the catalog was in 2014.

36
Launch attempts
33
Successes
3
Failures
92%
Success rate

Launches per year

2 4 6 1999: 2 launches (2 successes, 0 failures) 2000: 3 launches (2 successes, 1 failure) 2001: 2 launches (2 successes, 0 failures) 2002: 1 launch (1 success, 0 failures) 2003: 3 launches (3 successes, 0 failures) 2004: 3 launches (3 successes, 0 failures) 2005: 4 launches (4 successes, 0 failures) 2006: 5 launches (5 successes, 0 failures) 2007: 1 launch (0 successes, 1 failure) 2008: 5 launches (5 successes, 0 failures) 2009: 1 launch (1 success, 0 failures) 2010: 0 launches (0 successes, 0 failures) 2011: 1 launch (1 success, 0 failures) 2012: 3 launches (3 successes, 0 failures) 2013: 1 launch (0 successes, 1 failure) 2014: 1 launch (1 success, 0 failures) 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013
Successes Failures Each bar links to that year's full chronology.

Year by year

Year Attempts Successes Failures Success rate
2014 1 1 0 100%
2013 1 0 1 0%
2012 3 3 0 100%
2011 1 1 0 100%
2009 1 1 0 100%
2008 5 5 0 100%
2007 1 0 1 0%
2006 5 5 0 100%
2005 4 4 0 100%
2004 3 3 0 100%
2003 3 3 0 100%
2002 1 1 0 100%
2001 2 2 0 100%
2000 3 2 1 67%
1999 2 2 0 100%

Launch sites

Counts for each GCAT launch site attributed to Sea Launch.

Site code Site Launches Successes Failures First year Last year
KLA Kiritimati launch area (Sea Launch) 36 33 3 1999 2014

Recent launches

The most recent launches attributed to Sea Launch, newest first.

Date Designator Payloads Vehicle Site / Pad Outcome
May 26, 2014 2014-030 SL37/DM-SL-36L : EUTELSAT 3B Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Feb 1, 2013 2013-F01 SL36/DM-SL-35L : Intelsat IS-27 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Failure
Dec 3, 2012 2012-069 SL35/DM SL-34L : EUTELSAT 70B Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Aug 19, 2012 2012-045 SL34/DM SL-33L : Intelsat IS-21 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Jun 1, 2012 2012-030 SL33/DM SL-32L : Intelsat IS-19 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Sep 24, 2011 2011-051 SL31/DM-SL-31L : Atlantic Bird 7 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Apr 20, 2009 2009-020 SL30/DM-SL-30L : SICRAL 1B Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Sep 24, 2008 2008-045 SL29/DM-SL-29L : Galaxy 19 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Jul 16, 2008 2008-035 SL28/DM-SL-28L : Echostar 11 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
May 21, 2008 2008-024 SL27/DM-SL-27L : Galaxy 18 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Mar 19, 2008 2008-013 SL26/DM-SL-26L : DirecTV-11 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Jan 15, 2008 2008-001 SL25/DM-SL-15L : Thuraya 3 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Jan 30, 2007 2007-F01 SL24/DM-SL-25L : NSS 8 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Failure
Oct 30, 2006 2006-049 SL22/DM-SL-24L : XM Radio-4 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Aug 22, 2006 2006-034 SL23/DM-SL-23L : Koreasat 5 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Jun 18, 2006 2006-023 SL20/DM-SL-21L : Galaxy 16 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Apr 12, 2006 2006-010 SL21/DM-SL-22L : JCSAT 9 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Feb 15, 2006 2006-003 SL15/DM-SL-14L : Echostar 10 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Nov 8, 2005 2005-044 SL19/DM-SL-20L : INMARSAT 4 F2 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Jun 23, 2005 2005-022 SL4/DM-SL-13L : IA-8 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Apr 26, 2005 2005-015 SL18/DM-SL-19L : Spaceway 1 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Mar 1, 2005 2005-008 SL17/DM-SL-17L : XM Radio-3 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Jun 29, 2004 2004-024 SL11/DM-SL-11L : Apstar 5 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
May 4, 2004 2004-016 SL14/DM-SL-16L : DirecTV-7S Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success
Jan 11, 2004 2004-001 SL12/DM-SL-9L : Telstar 14 Zenit-3SL KLA / KLA - Success

Showing the latest 25 of 36 launches.

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