Operator file · US-118
International Launch Services
International Launch Services is a commercial launch operator based in United States of America, founded in 1995. It has flown 42 launches under its own name. 40 succeeded and 2 failed, a success rate of 95.2%. It has nothing on the schedule we can see right now.
Flight record
Launch statistics
These are launches under ILS’s own name in The Space Devs’ Launch Library. They don’t count missions or payloads. A spacecraft that flew on someone else’s rocket counts for the operator that flew it.
Operator or customer
An operator owns the rocket and runs the count, and the launch schedule filters by operator. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. Some organisations are both. Below, ILS is counted in whichever role the current schedule gives it.
Manifest role
No scheduled flight names ILS with someone else flying it.
How we count it: a scheduled launch counts as a customer flight when this organisation’s name or abbreviation is in the launch name, mission name or programme, and someone else is flying it. We don’t search mission descriptions, and we only see the schedule as far as it goes, which is 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. So treat both counts as a minimum.
About ILS
International Launch Services, Inc. (ILS) is a joint venture with exclusive rights to the worldwide sale of commercial Angara and Proton rocket launch services. Proton launches take place at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan while Angara is planned to launch from the Plesetsk and Vostochny Cosmodromes in Russia.
Upcoming launches
Manifest
ILS has nothing on the schedule we can see, which runs to 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. Its missions show up here once a launch date is published.
All upcoming launchesThe label on each flight says how exact its launch time is. If the date is only known to the month, you’ll see the month and no countdown. A weather go-probability only shows when Launch Library has one for that flight. EveryLaunch doesn’t work it out.
ILS in the archive
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Common questions
- How many launches has International Launch Services flown?
- International Launch Services has flown 42 launches under its own name. 40 succeeded and 2 failed. That counts launches it flew itself, not missions or payloads it contributed to.
- What is International Launch Services's success rate?
- 95.2%. That's 40 successful flights out of 42 attempts. Its last 8 launches in a row have succeeded.
- When is International Launch Services's next launch?
- International Launch Services has nothing on the schedule EveryLaunch can see, which runs to 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z.
- Does International Launch Services fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?
- International Launch Services has flown 42 launches under its own name. It isn't the operator on any scheduled flight we can see. An operator owns the rocket and runs the count. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. The operator filter on the launch schedule only lists operators, so a well-known agency can own a mission and still not show up there.
- Where is International Launch Services based?
- United States of America. Launch Library lists it as a commercial operator, founded in 1995.