Tags: Year In Spaceflight.

The year 2007 contained several significant events in spaceflight including a Chinese ASAT test the launches of the US Phoenix and Dawn missions to study Mars and Asteroid belt respectively Japan’s Kaguya Lunar orbiter and the first Chinese Lunar probe Chang’e 1.The internationally accepted definition of a spaceflight is any flight which crosses the Kármán line 100 kilometres above sea level.

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COSPAR id
65
country with first astronaut
Malaysia
country with first satellite
Colombia, Mauritius
failed launches
3
maiden flight rocket
Shavit, Atlas V, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, Proton-M, Long March 3B, Zenit-2M
orbital flights
5
partial failed launches
2
retired rocket
H-IIA
successful launches
63
total launches
68
total travellers
27

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