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Sea Launch

Russia · Commercial

Sea Launch is a commercial launch operator based in Russia. It has flown 43 launches under its own name. 40 succeeded and 3 failed, a success rate of 93.0%. It has nothing on the schedule we can see right now.

SourceLAUNCH LIBRARY 2
Window reaches2039-12-31 00:00:00Z
Page generated2026-11-11 11:11:05Z

Flight record

Launch statistics

ON RECORD
Total launches43
Successful40
Failed3
Success rate93.0%
Consecutive successes3
Scheduled0

These are launches under SL’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, SL is counted in whichever role the current schedule gives it.

Manifest role

NONE FILED
Flying as operator0
Named as customer0
Window reaches2039-12-31 00:00:00Z
Scheduled (register total)0

No scheduled flight names SL 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.

Upcoming launches

Manifest

EMPTY

SL 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 launches

The 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.

SL in the archive

From NASA's public image library and Wikimedia Commons. Each photo shows the credit its licence asks for and links back to where it came from.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Karen Holloway-Adkins, KSC wildlife specialist, searches the Banana River for a grass specimen. In the background is one of the launch pads. The biologist is studying the life history of sea turtles, especially what they eat, where they lay their eggs and what factors might harm their survival. On the boat trip she is also monitoring the growth of sea grasses and algae and the water quality of estuaries and lagoons used by sea turtles and other aquatic wildlife.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Karen Holloway-Adkins, KSC wildlife specialist, searches the Banana River for a grass specimen. In the background is one of the launch pads. The biologist is studying the life history of sea turtles, especially what they eat, where they lay their eggs and what factors might harm their survival. On the boat trip she is also monitoring the growth of sea grasses and algae and the water quality of estuaries and lagoons used by sea turtles and other aquatic wildlife.NASA / KSC · public domainNASA ↗
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich First Light Sea Level
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich First Light Sea LevelNASA / JPL · public domainNASA ↗
Sentinel Launch-6B Launch
Sentinel Launch-6B LaunchNASA / AFRC · public domainNASA ↗

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Common questions

How many launches has Sea Launch flown?
Sea Launch has flown 43 launches under its own name. 40 succeeded and 3 failed. That counts launches it flew itself, not missions or payloads it contributed to.
What is Sea Launch's success rate?
93.0%. That's 40 successful flights out of 43 attempts. Its last 3 launches in a row have succeeded.
When is Sea Launch's next launch?
Sea Launch has nothing on the schedule EveryLaunch can see, which runs to 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z.
Does Sea Launch fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?
Sea Launch has flown 43 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 Sea Launch based?
Russia. Launch Library lists it as a commercial operator.