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Field	Value
year	2014
image	EFT-1_launch_-_view_from_pad.jpg
caption	Orion EFT-1, the first test flight of the Orion spacecraft, occurred on 5 December 2014.
first	5 January
last	31 December
total	92
success	88
failed	2
partial	2
catalogued	90
firstsat

maidens	{{plainlist
retired	Antares 120
Antares 130
orbital	4
totalcrew	12
EVAs	7

Angara A5
Antares 120
Antares 130
Long March 3C/E Antares 130](antares-rocket)

In 2014, the maiden flight of the Angara A5, Antares 120 and Antares 130 took place.

A total of 92 orbital launches were attempted in 2014, of which 88 were successful, two were partially successful and two were failures. The year also saw seven EVAs by ISS astronauts. The majority of the year's orbital launches were conducted by Russia, the United States and China, with 34, 23 and 16 launches respectively.

Overview

An Ariane 5 ES launched the Georges Lemaître Automated Transfer Vehicle, the last one of the series, which also marked 60 successfully completed Ariane 5 launches in a row.

On 22 August 2014, Arianespace launched the first two Full Operational Capability Galileo satellites for the European satellite navigation system.

A number of significant events in planetary exploration occurred in 2014, including the entry of the Rosetta spacecraft into orbit around the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in August 2014 and the deployment of the Philae lander to its surface in November, which marked the first orbit of and landing on a comet, respectively, and featured prominently in social media. Another notable occurrence was the entry of India's Mars Orbiter Mission into Martian orbit in September, making India the first Asian nation to reach Mars.

On 5 December 2014, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy launched the first Orion spacecraft test mission for NASA, Exploration Flight Test 1.

Orbital launches

January

February

|- |d-date = 18 April 2014 |d-time = 15:46 |d-date = 15 January 2015

March

|d-date = 11 September 2014 |d-time = 02:23

April

|d-date = 31 July 2014

|d-date = 14 April 2015

May

|- |d-date = 3 September 2014

|d-date = 15 May 2014

|d-date = 10 November 2014 |d-time = 03:58

June

July

|d-date = 1 September 2014 |d-time = 09:18

|d-date = 20 November 2014

|d-date = 15 February 2015

August

Operational Operational

September

|d-date = 25 October 2014

|d-date = 12 March 2015 |d-time = 02:07

October

Operational

|d-date = 31 October |d-time = 22:42

S.S. Deke Slayton |d-time = T+15 seconds

|d-date = 26 April 2015

November

|- |d-date=3 December 2023

|d-date = 9 October 2016

|d-date = 11 June 2015 |d-time = 13:44

December

|d-date = 5 December 2014 |d-time = 16:29

|d-date = 22 October 2022

Suborbital flights

|d-date = 3 January

|d-date = 7 January

|d-date = 15 January

|d-date = 20 January

|d-date = 3 March |d-date = 3 March |d-date = 4 March

|d-date = 24 March

|d-date = 26 March

Test flight |d-date = 26 March |d-date = 26 March |d-date = 26 March |d-date= 11 April

|d-date = 14 April

|d-date = 22 April

|d-date = 27 April

|d-date = 3 May

|d-date = 8 May

|d-date = 20 May

|d-date = 21 May

|d-date = 24 May

|d-date = 2 June

|d-date = 22 June

|d-date = 26 June |d-date = 29 June |d-date = 29 June |d-date = 2 July

|d-date = 22 July

|d-date = 23 July

|d-date = 4 August

|d-date = 17 August

|d-date = 23 August

|d-time = 25 August

|d-date = 28 August

|d-date = 2 September

|d-date = 9 September

|d-date= 10 September

|d-date= 11 September

|d-date = 22 September

|d-date= 23 September

|d-date = 30 September

|d-date = 7 October

|d-date = 12 October

|d-date = 17 October

|d-date = 23 October

|d-date = 29 October

|d-date = 1 November

|d-date = 5 November

|d-date = 6 November

|d-date = 9 November

|d-date = 13 November

|d-date = 14 November

|d-date = 17 November

|d-date = 24 November

|d-date= 28 November

|d-date = 2 December

|d-date = 11 December

|d-date = 16 December

|d-date = 17 December

Apogee: 125.5 km |d-date = 18 December

|d-date = 26 December

Deep space rendezvous

Date (GMT)	Spacecraft	Event	Remarks
1 January	Cassini	98th flyby of Titan	Closest approach: 1400 km.
2 February	Cassini	99th flyby of Titan	Closest approach: 1236 km.
6 March	Cassini	100th flyby of Titan	Closest approach: 1500 km.
7 April	Cassini	101st flyby of Titan	Closest approach: 963 km.
17 May	Cassini	102nd flyby of Titan	Closest approach: 2994 km.
18 June	Cassini	103rd flyby of Titan	Closest approach: 3659 km.
20 July	Cassini	104th flyby of Titan	Closest approach: 5103 km.
6 August	Rosetta	Enters orbit of [67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko](67p-churyumov-gerasimenko)	First artificial satellite of a comet. Initial orbit was 100 kmhigh and was reduced to 30 km until 10 September.
10 August	ISEE-3/ICE	flyby of Earth and Moon	Closest approach Earth: 178400 km, closest approach Moon: 15938 km.
21 August	Cassini	105th flyby of Titan	Closest approach: 964 km.
21 September	Cassini	106th flyby of Titan	Closest approach: 1400 km.
22 September	MAVEN	Areocentric orbit injection	Preliminary orbit was 380 km x 44600 km, inclined 75 deg to the equator.
24 September	Mars Orbiter Mission	Areocentric orbit injection	India's first mission to Mars, preliminary orbit was 422 km x 76994 km, inclined 150 deg to the equator.
23 October	Cassini	107th flyby of Titan	Closest approach: 1013 km.
28 October	Chang'e 5-T1	lunar flyby on a free return trajectory	Closest approach: 13,000 km.
12 November	Philae	Landing on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko	First soft landing on a comet nucleus. Mission cut short when landing conditions resulted in its solar panels being out of position, depleting the lander's batteries. Data was still collected.
10 December	Cassini	108th flyby of Titan	Closest approach: 980 km.

Extra-Vehicular Activities (EVAs)

Start date/time	Duration	End time	Spacecraft	Crew
27 January
14:00	6 hours
8 minutes	20:08	Expedition 38 / 39	RUS Oleg Kotov	Installed High Resolution Camera (HRC) on SM Plane IV; installed Medium Resolution Camera (MRC) on SM Plane IV; photographed electrical connectors on ФП11 and ФП19 connector patch panels of SM; removed Worksite Interfaces (WIF) adaptor from SSRMS LEE B;
23 April
13:56	1 hours
36 minutes	15:32	Expedition 39 / 40	USA Richard Mastracchio	Replaced failed Multiplexer/Demultiplexer (MDM) unit on S0 truss; also removed two lanyards from Secondary Power Distribution Assembly (SPDA) doors.
19 June
14:10	7 hours
23 minutes	21:33	Expedition 40 / 41	RUS Alexander Skvortsov	Installed an automated phased antenna array used for the Russian command and telemetry system, relocated a part of the Obstanovka experiment that monitors charged particles and plasma in Low Earth Orbit, verifying the correct installation of the universal work platform (URM-D), taking samples from one of Zvezda's windows, and jettisoning an experiment frame.
18 August
14:02	5 hours
11 minutes	19:13	Expedition 40 / 41	RUS Alexander Skvortsov	Released Chasqui-1 cubesat into space; installed experiment packages (EXPOSE-R2 biological experiment, Plume Impingement and Deposit Monitoring unit), retrieved experiments (Vinoslivost materials exposure panel, Biorisk biological experiment), replaced cassette on SKK experiment and attached a handrail on an antenna.
7 October
12:30	6 hours
13 minutes	18:43	Expedition 41 / 42	USA Reid Wiseman	Re-located a failed pump module to a permanent stowage position, installed a back-up power supply for the Mobile Transporter and replaced a light on the robotic arm.
15 October
12:16	6 hours
34 minutes	18:50	Expedition 41 / 42	USA Reid Wiseman	Replaced failed sequential shunt unit (SSU) for 3A power system, relocated articulating portable foot restraint/tool stanchion (APFR/TS), removed camera port (CP) 7, relocated wireless video system external transceiver assembly (WETA) from CP8 to CP11, installed external TV camera group at CP8.
22 October
13:28	3 hours
38 minutes	17:06	Expedition 41 / 42	RUS Maksim Surayev	Removed and jettisoned Radiometriya experiment from Zvezda Plane II, removed EXPOSE-R experiment protective cover, took surface samples from Pirs extravehicular hatch 2 window (TEST experiment), removed and jettisoned two KURS antennas 2ACф1-1 and 2ACф1-2 from Poisk, photographed exterior of ISS Russian segment.

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. For example, Soyuz launches by Arianespace in Kourou are counted under Russia because Soyuz-2 is a Russian rocket.

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Country	Launches	Successes	Failures
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;"	style="text-align:left;"	style="text-align:left;"	World
16	16	0	0
6	6	0	0
4	4	0	0
1	1	0	0
1	1	0	0
4	4	0	0
34	31	1	2
3	3	0	0
23	22	1	0

By rocket

By family

Family	Launches	Successes	Failures	Partial failures	Remarks
Angara	1	1	0	0	Maiden flight
Antares	3	2	1	0
Ariane	6	6	0	0
Atlas	9	9	0	0
Delta	5	5	0	0
Falcon	6	6	0	0
GSLV	1	1	0	0
H-II	4	4	0	0
Kuaizhou	1	1	0	0
Long March	15	15	0	0
PSLV	3	3	0	0
R-7	22	21	0	1
R-36	2	2	0	0
Shavit	1	1	0	0
Universal Rocket	11	9	1	1
Vega	1	1	0	0
Zenit	1	1	0	0

By type

Rocket	Family	Launches	Successes	Failures	Partial failures	Remarks
Angara A5	Angara	1	1	0	0	Maiden flight
Antares	Antares	3	2	1	0
Ariane 5	Ariane	6	6	0	0
Atlas V	Atlas	9	9	0	0
Delta II	Delta	1	1	0	0
Delta IV	Delta	4	4	0	0
Dnepr	R-36	2	2	0	0
Falcon 9	Falcon	6	6	0	0
GSLV	GSLV	1	1	0	0
Kuaizhou 1	Kuaizhou	1	1	0	0
H-IIA	H-II	4	4	0	0
Long March 2	Long March	6	6	0	0
Long March 3	Long March	2	2	0	0
Long March 4	Long March	7	7	0	0
Proton	Universal Rocket	8	6	1	1
PSLV	PSLV	3	3	0	0
Shavit	Shavit	1	1	0	0
Soyuz	R-7	8	8	0	0
Soyuz-2	R-7	14	13	0	1
UR-100	Universal Rocket	3	3	0	0
Vega	Vega	1	1	0	0
Zenit	Zenit	1	1	0	0

By configuration

Rocket	Type	Launches	Successes	Failures	Partial failures	Remarks
Angara A5 / Briz-M	Angara A5	1	1	0	0	Maiden flight
Antares 120	Antares	2	2	0	0
Antares 130	Antares	1	0	1	0	Maiden flight
Ariane 5 ECA	Ariane 5	5	5	0	0
Ariane 5 ES	Ariane 5	1	1	0	0
Atlas V 401	Atlas V	7	7	0	0
Atlas V 541	Atlas V	2	2	0	0
Delta II 7320	Delta II	1	1	0	0
Delta IV Medium+ (4,2)	Delta IV	3	3	0	0
Delta IV Heavy	Delta IV	1	1	0	0
Dnepr	Dnepr	2	2	0	0
Falcon 9 v1.1	Falcon 9	6	6	0	0
GSLV Mk II	GSLV	1	1	0	0	First successful launch
H-IIA 202	H-IIA	4	4	0	0
Kuahzhou 1	Kuaizhou 1	1	1	0	0
Long March 2C	Long March 2	4	4	0	0
Long March 2D	Long March 2	2	2	0	0
Long March 3A	Long March 3	1	1	0	0
Long March 3C/E	Long March 3	1	1	0	0	Maiden flight
Long March 4B	Long March 4	4	4	0	0
Long March 4C	Long March 4	3	3	0	0
Proton-M / Briz-M	Proton	8	6	1	1
PSLV-CA	PSLV	1	1	0	0
PSLV-XL	PSLV	2	2	0	0
Rokot / Briz-KM	UR-100	2	2	0	0
Shavit-2	Shavit	1	1	0	0
Soyuz-2.1a or ST-A	Soyuz-2	3	3	0	0
Soyuz-2.1a or ST-A / Fregat-M	Soyuz-2	2	2	0	0
Soyuz-2.1b or ST-B	Soyuz-2	2	2	0	0
Soyuz-2.1b / Fregat-M	Soyuz-2	4	4	0	0
Soyuz ST-B / Fregat-MT	Soyuz-2	3	2	0	1
Soyuz-FG	Soyuz	4	4	0	0
Soyuz-U	Soyuz	4	4	0	0
Strela	UR-100	1	1	0	0
Vega	Vega	1	1	0	0
Zenit-3SL	Zenit	1	1	0	0

By spaceport

Site	Country	Launches	Successes	Failures	Partial failures
Baikonur		21	19	1	1
Cape Canaveral		16	16	0	0
Dombarovsky		2	2	0	0
Jiuquan		8	8	0	0
Kourou		11	10	0	1
MARS		3	2	1	0
Ocean Odyssey	UN International waters	1	1	0	0
Palmachim		1	1	0	0
Plesetsk		9	9	0	0
Satish Dhawan		4	4	0	0
Taiyuan		6	6	0	0
Tanegashima		4	4	0	0
Vandenberg		4	4	0	0
Xichang		2	2	0	0

By orbit

(transfer) : Inclined GSO : High Earth : Heliocentric

Orbital regime	Launches	Achieved	Not achieved	Accidentally
achieved	Remarks	Total	92	90	2	0
Transatmospheric	1	1	0	0	Deployed into a transatmospheric orbit via low and medium Earth orbits
Low Earth	49	48	1	0	14 to ISS (1 failure)
Medium Earth / Molniya	12	12	0	0
Geosynchronous / GTO	28	27	1	0
High Earth / Lunar transfer	1	1	0	0
Heliocentric / Planetary transfer	1	1	0	0

Notes

References

Footnotes

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