US regains title of space-launch world leader

Posted on 4 Jan 2018 by Michael Cruickshank

The United States has once again risen to become the country with the greatest number of space launches in 2017, buoyed by the strength of private launch companies.

The large number of US launches in 2017 was largely due to SpaceX. Image courtesy of SpaceX All up, in 2017, the US managed to achieve 29 orbital space launches, a significant increase from the 22 achieved in the previous year. The fact that the country managed to carry out so…

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