Counts Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launches equally. Only full orbit or earth escape trajectory counts, with perigee >150km or apogee >1000km.
Re "Successfully send to orbit":
Most count July 12 launch of starlink 9-3 as a failure. Payloads sort of did orbit but perigee was too low and they re-entered.
If the criteria here is just that the launch results in rocket reaching some sort of orbit, it could possibly qualify, but I think that would potentially create confusion.
A clarification on whether it counts as successful would be good.
@ChristopherRandles Was the perigee above 150km? Then according to the conditions it would count, no? The word successfully is the sticking point I guess but I'm inclined to count it
@Mqrius Sorry I should have looked that up.
https://spacenews.com/starlink-satellites-lost-on-falcon-9-upper-stage-failure/
"The Starlink 9-3 satellites that were launched on July 11, 2024, had a perigee of 135 kilometers after a Falcon 9 upper stage engine anomaly:"
There is perhaps potentially some ambiguity over whether it is the rocket that has to successfully reach orbit or the launch to be successful or the payloads reach orbit or the mission, but the 150km perigee probably does it to ensure this does not count.
