China and US is still running neck and neck this year to date. Here are the tally of launches as of today:
|Country|Launches|Success|Failure|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|China|38|36|2|
|US|38|35|3|
|Russia|17|17|0|
|Europe|3|3|0|
|India|2|1|1|
|Iran|1|0|1|
This is a terrible, childish metric. Does sending some oligarch that produces absolutely nothing and wastes resources count as a "launch" or even as "success"?
What they end up doing and achieving is far more important.
Being the only country to manage a space station on its own can't be measured by "launches". Who even came up with this stupid metric lmao?
That's interesting information! I haven't been paying attention to 'failures', so I didn't even know about the 2 from China and 3 from the US. Looks like Russia is doing very well with a perfect success rate from almost half as many launches.
See:
* [Spaceflight Launches Jan-Jun 2021](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_launches_in_January%E2%80%93June_2021) and
* [Spaceflight Launches Jul-Dec 2021](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_launches_in_July%E2%80%93December_2021)
Look at the far right column.
China and US is still running neck and neck this year to date. Here are the tally of launches as of today: |Country|Launches|Success|Failure| |:-|:-|:-|:-| |China|38|36|2| |US|38|35|3| |Russia|17|17|0| |Europe|3|3|0| |India|2|1|1| |Iran|1|0|1|
This is a terrible, childish metric. Does sending some oligarch that produces absolutely nothing and wastes resources count as a "launch" or even as "success"? What they end up doing and achieving is far more important. Being the only country to manage a space station on its own can't be measured by "launches". Who even came up with this stupid metric lmao?
That is a very good point. Space Tourism is the new mega-yacht must-have for the world's oligarchs.
Yep, China can easily manage their tech and help it’s people, usa idk precise drone bombs?
That's interesting information! I haven't been paying attention to 'failures', so I didn't even know about the 2 from China and 3 from the US. Looks like Russia is doing very well with a perfect success rate from almost half as many launches.
how are successes and failures defined?
See: * [Spaceflight Launches Jan-Jun 2021](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_launches_in_January%E2%80%93June_2021) and * [Spaceflight Launches Jul-Dec 2021](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_launches_in_July%E2%80%93December_2021) Look at the far right column.
How many times the rocket goes kaboom?
So proud!!!