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2005 in spaceflight
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| year | 2005 |
| image | Final Titan IV launch.jpg |
| caption | Launch of the last Titan rocket, a Titan IVB, from Vandenberg SLC-4E |
| first | 12 January |
| last | 29 December |
| total | 55 |
| success | 52 |
| failed | 3 |
| partial | 0 |
| catalogued | 52 |
| maidens | Ariane 5GS |
| Atlas V 431 | |
| H-IIA 2022 | |
| retired | Atlas IIIB |
| Titan IVB | |
| orbital | 4 |
| totalcrew | 15 |
| firstsat |
Atlas V 431 H-IIA 2022 Titan IVB
This article outlines notable events occurring in 2005 in spaceflight, including major launches and EVAs. 2005 saw Iran launch its first satellite.
Orbital launches
January
|- |d-date=4 July |d-time = 05:52
February
|- |d-date = 3 December 2012 |d-date=16 June |d-time=00:02 |d-date = 30 August
March
|-
April
|- |d-date=11 November 2013 |d-date=11 October |d-time = 01:09:00 |d-date=7 May 2016 |d-time=08:32
May
|- |d-date=16 June
June
|- |d-date=7 September |d-time = 14:12:40 |d-time=+6 minutes |d-date=21 June Galaxy 28 (2007—)
July
|- |d-date=5 January 2025 |d-date=9 August |d-time = 12:11:22 |d-span=2 |d-span=inherit
August
|- |d-date = 28 August |d-time = 23:38 Intelsat (2006—)
|d-date = 22 September 2020 |d-time = 00:00
|d-date = 17 October
September
|- |d-date=15 October |d-time=21:44 |d-date=3 March 2006 |d-time=13:05 |d-date = 7 September 2006 |d-time = 16:00
October
|- |d-date=8 April 2006 |d-time=23:48 |d-date=8 October |d-date=16 October |d-time=04:32:50 Intelsat (2006—) Amateur radio |d-span=2 |d-span=inherit
November
|-
|d-date = Late January 2015
December
|- |d-date=19 June 2006 |d-time=17:53 Technology GE-23 (2007—) SAT-GE (2007—) |}
Suborbital launches
January
|- |d-date = 18 January |d-date = 18 January |d-date = 18 January |d-date = 18 January
February
|- |d-date = 1 February |d-date = 2 February |d-date = 14 February |d-date = 24 February |d-date = 24 February
March
|- |d-date = 1 March |d-date = 2 March |d-date = 2 March |d-date = 2 March |d-date = 2 March |d-date = 6 March |d-date = 15 March |d-date = 15 March |d-date = 19 March
April
|- |d-date = 8 April |d-date = 8 April
May
|- |d-date = 2 May |d-date = 5 May |d-date = 27 May |d-date = 27 May |d-date = 27 May
June
|- |d-date = 12 June |d-date = 28 June
July
|- |d-date = 4 July |d-date = 7 July |d-date = 7 July |d-date = 21 July
August
|- |d-date = 3 August |d-date = 3 August |d-date = 17 August |d-date = 18 August |d-date = 26 August
September
|- |d-date = 7 September |d-date = 14 September |d-date = 26 September |d-date = 27 September |d-date = 30 September
October
|- |d-date = 6 October |d-date = 10 October |d-date = 20 October |d-date = 27 October
November
|- |d-date = 1 November
|d-date = 2 November
|d-date = 14 November |d-date = 18 November
|d-date = 18 November
|d-date = 18 November
|d-date = 22 November
|d-date = 29 November
December
|- |d-date = 9 December |d-date = 14 December |d-date = 20 December |d-date = 21 December
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Deep Space Rendezvous
| Date (GMT) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 January | Cassini | Flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 60000 km |
| 14 January | Huygens | First soft landing on planet's satellite outside Moon and on Titan | |
| 15 February | Cassini | 3rd flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 950 km |
| 17 February | Cassini | Flyby of Enceladus | Closest approach: 1180 km |
| 4 March | Rosetta | 1st flyby of the Earth | Gravity assist |
| 9 March | Cassini | Flyby of Enceladus | Closest approach: 500 km |
| 31 March | Cassini | 4th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 2523 km |
| 16 April | Cassini | 5th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 950 km |
| 4 July | Deep Impact | First impact to comet | Projectile impacts 9P/Tempel 1 |
| 14 July | Cassini | Flyby of Enceladus | Closest approach: 1000 km |
| 2 August | MESSENGER | Flyby of the Earth | Gravity assist |
| 22 August | Cassini | 6th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 4015 km |
| 7 September | Cassini | 7th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 950 km |
| 12 September | Hayabusa | Arrival at asteroid 25143 Itokawa | |
| 26 September | Cassini | Flyby of Hyperion | Closest approach: 990 km |
| 11 October | Cassini | Flyby of Dione | Closest approach: 500 km |
| 28 October | Cassini | 8th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 1446 km |
| 12 November | MINERVA | Failed to land on Itokawa | |
| 19 November | Hayabusa | Accidentally landed on Itokawa | |
| The first asteroid ascent | Stayed for 30 min | ||
| 25 November | Hayabusa | Made a touch-and-go on Itokawa for sampling | Status unclear |
| 26 November | Cassini | Flyby of Rhea | Closest approach: 500 km |
| 26 December | Cassini | 9th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 10429 km |
EVAs
| Start date/time | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (UTC) | Duration | End time | |||||||
| (UTC) | Spacecraft | Crew | Remarks | ||||||
| 26 January | |||||||||
| 07:43 | 5 hours | ||||||||
| 28 minutes | 13:11 | Expedition 10 | |||||||
| ISS Pirs | USALeroy Chiao | ||||||||
| RUSSalizhan Sharipov | url=http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp10/eva/index.html | title=Expedition 10 Spacewalks | access-date=7 October 2008 | publisher=NASA | year=2005 | author=NASA | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081005111313/http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp10/eva/index.html | archive-date= 5 October 2008 | url-status=dead}} |
| 28 March | |||||||||
| 06:25 | 4 hours | ||||||||
| 30 minutes | 10:55 | Expedition 10 | |||||||
| ISS Pirs | USALeroy Chiao | ||||||||
| RUSSalizhan Sharipov | url=http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/reports/issreports/2005/iss05-16.html | title=International Space Station Status Report #05-16 | access-date=7 October 2008 | publisher=NASA | year=2005 | author=NASA | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081011001636/http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/reports/issreports/2005/iss05-16.html | archive-date= 11 October 2008 | url-status=dead}} |
| 30 July | |||||||||
| 09:48 | 6 hours | ||||||||
| 50 minutes | 17:36 | STS-114 | |||||||
| JPNSoichi Noguchi | |||||||||
| USAStephen Robinson | Performed using Shuttle airlock whilst docked to the ISS. Demonstrated shuttle thermal protection repair techniques and enhancements to the Station's attitude control system. installed a base and cabling for an External Stowage Platform, rerouted power to Control Moment Gyroscope-2 (CMG-2), retrieved two exposure experiments, and replaced a faulty global positioning system antenna on the station. | ||||||||
| 1 August | |||||||||
| 08:42 | 7 hours | ||||||||
| 14 minutes | 15:56 | STS-114 | |||||||
| Discovery | JPNSoichi Noguchi | ||||||||
| USAStephen Robinson | Performed using Shuttle airlock whilst docked to the ISS. Removed faulty CMG-1 from the Z1 truss, installed faulty CMG-1 into Discovery's payload bay, and installed new CMG-1 onto the Z1 truss segment. | ||||||||
| 3 August | |||||||||
| 08:48 | 6 hours | ||||||||
| 1 minute | 14:49 | STS-114 | |||||||
| Discovery | JPNSoichi Noguchi | ||||||||
| USAStephen Robinson | Performed using Shuttle airlock whilst docked to the ISS. Photographed and inspected Discoverys heat shield, removed two protruding gap fillers from between tiles in the forward area of the orbiter's underside, and installed amateur radio satellite PCSAT2. | ||||||||
| 18 August | |||||||||
| 19:02 | 4 hours | ||||||||
| 58 minutes | 19 August | ||||||||
| 00:00 | Expedition 11 | ||||||||
| ISS Pirs | RUSSergei Krikalyov | ||||||||
| USAJohn L. Phillips | Retrieved one of three canisters from the Biorisk experiment, removed Micro-Particles Capturer experiment and Space Environment Exposure Device from Zvezda, retrieved Matroska experiment, installed an ATV docking television camera. | ||||||||
| 7 November | |||||||||
| 15:32 | 5 hours | ||||||||
| 22 minutes | 20:54 | Expedition 12 | |||||||
| ISS Quest | USAWilliam S. McArthur | ||||||||
| RUSValery Tokarev | Installed and set up the P1 Truss camera, retrieved a failed Rotary Joint Motor Controller (RJMC), jettisoned a Floating Potential Probe, and removed and replaced a remote power controller module on the Mobile Transporter. First Quest-based spacewalk since April 2003. |
Orbital launch statistics
By country
For the purposes of this section, the yearly tally of orbital launches by country assigns each flight to the country of origin of the rocket, not to the launch services provider or the spaceport. | [ {"value":250, "color":"#a52a2a", "label": "Russia: 25 (45.45%)"}, {"value":120, "color":"#484785", "label": "United States: 12 (21.82%)"}, {"value":50, "color":"#318ce7", "label": "France: 5 (9.09%)"}, {"value":50, "color":"#ffd700", "label": "Ukraine: 5 (9.09%)"}, {"value":50, "color":"#ff0000", "label": "China: 5 (9.09%)"}, {"value":20, "color":"#ffffff", "label": "Japan: 2 (3.64%)"}, {"value":10, "color":"#ff9933", "label": "India: 1 (1.82%)"}, ]
| Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| failures | style="text-align:left;" | style="text-align:left;" | style="text-align:left;" | style="text-align:left;" | style="text-align:left;" | style="text-align:left;" | style="text-align:left;" | World | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 25 | 22 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
By rocket
By family
| Family | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ariane | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Atlas | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Delta | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| H-II | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Long March | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Minotaur | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Mu | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Pegasus | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| PSLV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| R-7 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | ||
| R-14 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| R-29 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| R-36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Space Shuttle | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Titan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Final flight | |
| Universal Rocket | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Zenit | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
By type
| Rocket | Country | Family | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ariane 5 | Ariane | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Atlas III | Atlas | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Final flight | |
| Atlas V | Atlas | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Delta II | Delta | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dnepr | R-36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| H-IIA | H-II | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Kosmos | R-12/R-14 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Long March 2 | Long March | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Long March 3 | Long March | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Minotaur I | Minotaur | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| M-V | Mu | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Molniya | R-7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Pegasus | Pegasus | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| PSLV | PSLV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Proton | Universal Rocket | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Soyuz | R-7 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Space Shuttle | Space Shuttle | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Titan IV | Titan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Final flight | |
| UR-100 | Universal Rocket | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Volna | R-29 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Zenit | Zenit | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
By configuration
| Rocket | Country | Type | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ariane 5 ECA | Ariane 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Ariane 5 GS | Ariane 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight | |
| Atlas IIIB | Atlas III | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Final flight | |
| Atlas V 401 | Atlas V | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Atlas V 431 | Atlas V | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight | |
| Delta II 7320 | Delta II | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Delta II 7925 | Delta II | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dnepr | Dnepr | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| H-IIA 2022 | H-IIA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight | |
| Kosmos-3M | Kosmos | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Long March 2C | Long March 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Long March 2D | Long March 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Long March 2F | Long March 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Long March 3B | Long March 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Minotaur I | Minotaur I | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| M-V | M-V | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Molniya-M / ML | Molniya | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Final flight | |
| Pegasus-XL | Pegasus | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| PSLV-G | PSLV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Proton-K / DM-2 | Proton | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Proton-K / DM-2M | Proton | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Proton-M / Briz-M | Proton | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Rokot / Briz-KM | UR-100 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Soyuz-FG | Soyuz | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Soyuz-FG / Fregat | Soyuz | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Soyuz-U | Soyuz | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Space Shuttle | Space Shuttle | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Titan IV-B (404B) | Titan IV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Final flight | |
| Titan IV-B (405B) | Titan IV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Final flight | |
| Volna | Volna | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Maiden flight | |
| Zenit-3SL | Zenit | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
By launch site
| Site | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks | Total | 55 | 52 | 3 | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baikonur | 19 | 19 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Barents Sea | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Launched from Borisoglebsk submarine | ||||||
| Cape Canaveral | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Jiuquan | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Kennedy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Kourou | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Ocean Odyssey | UN International | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Plesetsk | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | |||||||
| Satish Dhawan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Tanegashima | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Uchinoura | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Vandenberg | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | One launch used Stargazer aircraft | ||||||
| Xichang | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
By orbit
(transfer) : Inclined GSO : High Earth : Heliocentric
| Orbital regime | Launches | Successes | Failures | Accidentally | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| achieved | Remarks | Total | 55 | 52 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| Transatmospheric | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Low Earth | 29 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 7 to ISS | |||||
| Medium Earth / Molniya | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| Geosynchronous / GTO | 19 | 19 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| High Earth / Lunar transfer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Heliocentric / Planetary transfer | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
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