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2006 in spaceflight
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| year | 2006 |
| image | Atlas V 551 roars into blue sky.jpg |
| caption | Launch of New Horizons, the first probe to Pluto, on the first Atlas V 551 |
| first | 19 January |
| last | 27 December |
| total | 67 |
| success | 62 |
| failed | 5 |
| partial | 0 |
| catalogued | 63 |
| maidens | Atlas V 411 |
| Atlas V 551 | |
| Long March 4B-II (4C) | |
| Falcon 1 | |
| H-IIA 204 | |
| Soyuz-2.1b | |
| retired | Tsyklon-2 |
| M-V | |
| orbital | 5 |
| totalcrew | 26 |
| firstsat | |
| firsttrav | |
Atlas V 551 Long March 4B-II (4C) Falcon 1 H-IIA 204 Soyuz-2.1b M-V
This article outlines notable events occurring in 2006 in spaceflight, including major launches and EVAs. 2006 saw Brazil, Iran, and Sweden all get a national into space for the first time.
Launches
January
|- Operational
February
|- |d-date=11 April 2023 |d-time = 04:44 |d-date=24 October 2009 Achieved: Medium Earth |d-date=24 March
March
|- |d-time=T+60 seconds |d-date=29 September |d-time=01:13
April
|- Successful Successful
|d-date=18 September
May
|-
|d-date = 28 December 2011
|d-date = 26 February 2020 |d-time = 09:52
June
|- |d-date=17 January 2007 |d-date=20 March 2008
July
|- |d-date=17 July |d-time=13:14 |d-span=2 |d-span=inherit (unconfirmed) |d-date=+42 seconds |d-time=T+60 seconds |d-date = 22 November 2019 |d-time = 20:15
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August
|-
September
|- |d-date=24 September |d-time=02:43 |d-date=21 September |d-time=10:21 |d-date=29 October 2016 |d-time= |d-date = 17 November |d-date=21 April 2007 |d-time=12:31 |d-date=18 June 2008 |d-time=08:48 |d-date=26 September
October
|- |d-date=30 September 2010 |d-time=02:23 |d-date=27 March 2007 |d-time=22:44 Achieved: Subsynchronous
November
|-
December
|-
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Technology demonstration |d-date = 21 February 2008 |d-time = 03:29
Technology demonstration |d-date = 5 February 2011 |d-date = 4 August 2010 |d-time = 20:43
|d-date = 6 July 2021 |d-time = 12:20
Asteroseismology |}
Suborbital launches
January
|- |d-time = 11:57 |d-time = 22 January
February
|- |d-time = 6 February |d-time = 8 February |d-date=16 February |d-date=23 February
March
|- |d-date=8 March |d-time=03:25 |d-date=30 March
April
|- |d-date=7 April |d-date=12 April |d-date=13 April |d-date=22 April |d-date=28 April |d-date=29 April
May
|- |d-date=2 May |d-date=10 May |d-date=11 May |d-date=22 May |d-date=22 May
June
|- |d-date=5 June |d-date=7 June |d-date=8 June |d-date=14 June |d-date=22 June |d-date=22 June |d-date=23 June |d-date=30 June
July
|- Plasma research |d-date=1 July |d-date=1 July |d-date=4 July |d-date=4 July |d-date=4 July |d-date=4 July |d-date=4 July |d-date=5 July |d-date=9 July |d-date=12 July |d-date=21 July
August
|- |d-time=11:04 |d-date=21 August |d-date=21 August
September
|- |d-date=1 September |d-date=1 September |d-date=4 September |d-date=7 September |d-date=9 September |d-date=9 September |d-date=10 September |d-date=13 September |d-date=17 September |d-date=23 September |d-time=T+60 seconds
October
|- |d-date=25 October |d-date=28 October
November
|- |d-date=2 November |d-date=7 November |d-date=9 November |d-date=9 November |d-date=16 November |d-date=16 November |d-date=21 November |d-date=21 November |d-date=21 November |d-date=26 November |d-date=27 November |d-date=27 November |d-date=29 November
December
|- |d-date = 7 December |d-date = 24 December
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Deep Space Rendezvous in 2006
| Date (GMT) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 January | Stardust | First sample return mission from comet | space capsule landing on Earth with cometary samples |
| 15 January | Cassini | 10th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 2042 km |
| 27 February | Cassini | 11th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 1812 km |
| 10 March | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter | Areocentric orbit injection | |
| 18 March | Cassini | 12th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 1947 km |
| 11 April | Venus Express | Cytherean orbit injection | |
| 30 April | Cassini | 13th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 1853 km |
| 20 May | Cassini | 14th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 1879 km |
| 2 July | Cassini | 15th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 1911 km |
| 22 July | Cassini | 16th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 950 km |
| 4 September | SMART-1 | Lunar impact | |
| 7 September | Cassini | 17th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 950 km |
| 23 September | Cassini | 18th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 950 km |
| 9 October | Cassini | 19th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 950 km |
| 23 October | MESSENGER | 1st flyby of Venus | Gravity assist |
| 25 October | Cassini | 20th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 950 km |
| 12 December | Cassini | 21st flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 950 km |
| 28 December | Cassini | 22nd flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 1500 km |
EVAs
| Start date/time | Duration | End time | Spacecraft | Crew | Function | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 February | ||||||
| 09:55 | 5 hours | |||||
| 43 minutes | 16:27 | Expedition 12 | ||||
| ISS Pirs | USAWilliam S. McArthur | |||||
| RUSValery Tokarev | Released SuitSat-1, retrieved the Biorisk experiment, photographed a sensor for a micrometeoroid experiment, and tied off the surviving umbilical of the Mobile Transporter. | |||||
| 1 June | ||||||
| 23:48 | 6 hours | |||||
| 31 minutes | 2 June | |||||
| 06:19 | Expedition 13 | |||||
| ISS Pirs | RUSPavel Vinogradov | |||||
| USAJeffrey Williams | Repaired a vent for the Elektron unit, retrieved a Biorisk experiment, retrieved a contamination-monitoring device from Zvezda, and replaced a malfunctioning camera on the Mobile Base System. | |||||
| 8 July | ||||||
| 13:17 | 7 hours | |||||
| 31 minutes | 20:48 | STS-121 | ||||
| ISS Quest | UK/USAPiers Sellers | |||||
| USAMichael E. Fossum | Installed a blade blocker in the zenith Interface Umbilical Assembly (IUA) to protect the undamaged power, data and video cable, rerouted the cable to prepare for the second EVA. Tested the combination of the Shuttle's Canadarm(SRMS) and the Orbiter Boom Sensor System as a platform for astronauts to make repairs to a damaged orbiter. | |||||
| 10 July | ||||||
| 12:14 | 6 hours | |||||
| 47 minutes | 19:01 | STS-121 | ||||
| ISS Quest | UK/USAPiers Sellers | |||||
| USAMichael E. Fossum | Restored the Mobile Transporter to full operation, and delivered a spare pump module for the station's cooling system. | |||||
| 12 July | ||||||
| 07:11 | 6 hours | |||||
| 20 minutes | 13:31 | STS-121 | ||||
| ISS Quest | UK/USAPiers Sellers | |||||
| USAMichael E. Fossum | Used an infrared camera to shoot 20 seconds of video of selected reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) panels on the shuttle wing's leading edge, and then moved to the payload bay to test a shuttle tile repair material known as NOAX on pre-damaged shuttle tiles that were flown in a test container. | |||||
| 3 August | ||||||
| 14:04 | 5 hours | |||||
| 54 minutes | 19:58 | Expedition 13 | ||||
| ISS Quest | USAJeffrey Williams | |||||
| GERThomas Reiter | Installed the Floating Potential Measurement Unit, two MISSE containers, a controller for a thermal radiator rotary joint on the S1 truss, a starboard jumper and spool positioning device on S1, a light on the truss railway handcart, and installed and replaced a malfunctioning GPS antenna. Tested an infrared camera designed to detect damage in a shuttle's thermal protection tiles. Inspection and photography of a scratch on the Quest airlock hatch. | |||||
| 12 September | ||||||
| 10:17 | 5 hours | |||||
| 26 minutes | 15:43 | STS-115 | ||||
| ISS Quest | USAJoseph R. Tanner | |||||
| USAHeidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper | Initial installation of the P3/P4 truss. Connected power cables on the truss, released the launch restraints on the solar array blanket box, the Beta Gimbal Assembly, and the solar array wings. Configured the Solar Alpha Rotary Joint, and removed two circuit interrupt devices to prepare for STS-116. | Piper became the 7th American and the 8th female spacewalker. | ||||
| 13 September | ||||||
| 09:05 | 7 hours | |||||
| 11 minutes | 16:16 | STS-115 | ||||
| ISS Quest | USADaniel C. Burbank | |||||
| CANSteven MacLean | Continued installation of the P3/4 truss onto the station, and activated the SARJ. | |||||
| 15 September | ||||||
| 10:00 | 6 hours | |||||
| 42 minutes | 16:42 | STS-115 | ||||
| ISS Quest | USAJoseph R. Tanner | |||||
| USAHeidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper | Installed a radiator onto the P3/4 truss, powered up a cooling radiator for the new solar arrays, replaced an S-Band radio antenna, and installed insulation for another antenna. Tanner took photos of the shuttles wings using an infrared camera. | |||||
| 22 November | ||||||
| 23:17 | 5 hours | |||||
| 38 minutes | 23 November | |||||
| 04:55 | Expedition 14 | |||||
| ISS Pirs | RUSMikhail Tyurin | |||||
| USAMichael Lopez-Alegria | "Orbiting golf shot" event sponsored by a Canadian golf company. Lopez-Alegria put the tee on the ladder outside Pirs, while Tyurin set up a camera, and then performed the golf shot. Inspected and photographed a Kurs antenna, relocated an ATV WAL antenna, installed a BTN neutron experiment, and jettisoned two thermal covers from the BTN. | |||||
| 12 December | ||||||
| 20:31 | 6 hours | |||||
| 36 minutes | 13 December | |||||
| 03:07 | STS-116 | |||||
| ISS Quest | USARobert Curbeam | |||||
| SWEChrister Fuglesang | Installed the P5 Truss, and replaced a video camera on the S1 truss. | |||||
| 14 December | ||||||
| 19:41 | 5 hours | 15 December | ||||
| 00:41 | STS-116 | |||||
| ISS Quest | USARobert Curbeam | |||||
| SWEChrister Fuglesang | Reconfigured channels 2–3 on the P3/P4 truss to take advantage of the new solar arrays, relocated two handcarts that run along the station's main truss, put a thermal cover on the station's robotic arm, and installed bags of tools for future spacewalkers. | |||||
| 16 December | ||||||
| 19:25 | 7 hours | |||||
| 31 minutes | 17 December | |||||
| 02:57 | STS-116 | |||||
| ISS Quest | USARobert Curbeam | |||||
| USASunita Williams | Reconfigured channels 1 and 4 on the P3/P4 truss to take advantage of the new solar arrays, installed a robotic arm grapple fixture, and positioned three bundles ofdebris shield panels outside Zvezda. Additional time was spent trying to help retract the P6 solar array panel by shaking the panel's blanket box from its base. | Williams became the 8th American and the 9th female spacewalker. | ||||
| 18 December | ||||||
| 19:00 | 6 hours | |||||
| 38 minutes | 19 December | |||||
| 01:38 | STS-116 | |||||
| ISS Quest | USARobert Curbeam | |||||
| SWEChrister Fuglesang | Assisted ground controllers with retracting the P6 solar array panels. |
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":220, "color":"#a52a2a", "label": "Russia: 22 (32.84%)"}, {"value":180, "color":"#484785", "label": "United States: 18 (26.87%)"}, {"value":80, "color":"#ffd700", "label": "Ukraine: 8 (11.94%)"}, {"value":60, "color":"#ff0000", "label": "China: 6 (8.95%)"}, {"value":60, "color":"#ffffff", "label": "Japan: 6 (8.95%)"}, {"value":50, "color":"#318ce7", "label": "France: 5 (7.47%)"}, {"value":10, "color":"#ff9933", "label": "India: 1 (1.49%)"}, {"value":10, "color":"#ffc0cb", "label": "North Korea: 1 (1.49%)"}, ]
| Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | 21 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | 17 | 1 | 0 |
By rocket
By family
| Rocket | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ariane | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Atlas | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Delta | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Falcon | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Maiden flight | |
| GSLV | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| H-II | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Long March | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Minotaur | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Mu | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Final flight | |
| Pegasus | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| R-7 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | ||
| R-14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| R-29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| R-36 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Space Shuttle | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Topol | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Unha | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Maiden flight, disputed | |
| Universal Rocket | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Zenit | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
By type
| Rocket | Country | Family | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ariane 5 | Ariane | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Atlas V | Atlas | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Delta II | Delta | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Delta IV | Delta | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dnepr | R-36 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Falcon 1 | Falcon | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Maiden flight | |
| GSLV | GSLV | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| H-IIA | H-II | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Kosmos | R-12/R-14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Long March 2 | Long March | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Long March 3 | Long March | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Long March 4 | Long March | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| M-V | Mu | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Final flight | |
| Minotaur I | Minotaur | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Molniya | R-7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Pegasus | Pegasus | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Proton | Universal Rocket | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Shtil' | R-29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Soyuz | R-7 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Soyuz-2 | R-7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Space Shuttle | Space Shuttle | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Start-1 | Topol | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Tsyklon | R-36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Unha | Unha | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Maiden flight, disputed | |
| UR-100 | Universal Rocket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Zenit | Zenit | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
By configuration
| Rocket | Country | Type | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ariane 5 ECA | Ariane 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Atlas V 411 | Atlas V | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight | |
| Atlas V 551 | Atlas V | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight | |
| Delta II 7420 | Delta II | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Delta II 7920 | Delta II | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Delta II 7925 | Delta II | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Delta IV M | Delta IV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Final flight | |
| Delta IV M+ (4,2) | Delta IV | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dnepr | Dnepr | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Falcon 1 | Falcon 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Maiden flight | |
| GSLV Mk I | GSLV | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| H-IIA 202 | H-IIA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| H-IIA 204 | H-IIA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight | |
| H-IIA 2022 | H-IIA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| H-IIA 2024 | H-IIA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Kosmos-3M | Kosmos | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Long March 2C | Long March 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Long March 3A | Long March 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Long March 3B | Long March 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Long March 4B | Long March 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Long March 4B-II | Long March 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight, later Long March 4C | |
| M-V | M-V | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Final flight | |
| Minotaur I | Minotaur I | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Molniya-M / 2BL | Molniya | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Pegasus-XL | Pegasus | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Proton-K / DM-2 | Proton | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Proton-K / DM-3 | Proton | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Proton-M / Briz-M | Proton | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Rokot / Briz-KM | UR-100 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Shtil' | Shtil' | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Soyuz-2.1a / Fregat | Soyuz-2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight, first orbital launch of Soyuz-2 | |
| Soyuz-2.1b / Fregat | Soyuz-2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight of Soyuz-2.1b | |
| Soyuz-FG | Soyuz | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Soyuz-U | Soyuz | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Space Shuttle | Space Shuttle | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Start-1 | Start-1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Tsyklon-2 | Tsyklon | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Final flight | |
| Unha | Unha | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Maiden flight, disputed | |
| Zenit-3SL | Zenit | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
By launch site
| Site | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks | Total | 67 | 62 | 5 | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baikonur | 17 | 15 | 2 | 0 | |||||||
| Barents | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Launched from Ekaterinburg submarine | ||||||
| Cape Canaveral | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Dombarovsky | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | First launch | ||||||
| Jiuquan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Kennedy | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Kwajalein | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
| Kourou | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| MARS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | First launch | ||||||
| Ocean Odyssey | UN International | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Plesetsk | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Satish Dhawan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
| Svobodny | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Final launch | ||||||
| Taiyuan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Tanegashima | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Tonghae | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
| Uchinoura | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Vandenberg | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | One launch used Stargazer aircraft | ||||||
| Xichang | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
By orbit
(transfer) : Inclined GSO : High Earth : Heliocentric : Solar escape
| Orbital regime | Launches | Successes | Failures | Accidentally | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| achieved | Remarks | Total | 67 | 62 | 5 | 1 | ||||
| Transatmospheric | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Low Earth | 35 | 32 | 3 | 0 | 8 to ISS | |||||
| Medium Earth / Molniya | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| Geosynchronous / GTO | 24 | 22 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| High Earth / Lunar transfer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Heliocentric / Planetary transfer | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Solar escape | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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