When was the last time a rocket was launched into space?

Answer 1

Spaceflight Now keeps a fairly complete "Launch Log":
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/tracking/launchlog.html

Sea Launch (run by Boeing) used a Zenit (Russian) rocket to launch a Korean satellite last Wednesday. I dunno if that counts as a US, Russian or Korean launch.

United States: Vandenburg launched a Minuteman III on the 20th of July. Suborbital payload, but definitely into space for a while.

The last purely US (territory of launch, owner of payload, owner of launch vehicle was Boeing, a US company) orbital flight was the Shuttle Discovery on 7/4, and a week before that on June 28th satellite went up from Vandenburg.

Answer 2

Astronomy - I'm confused, are you saying the last NASA rocket launch was last March, or today? Definitely not last March - I saw a rocket launch this past June from Florida, and the space shuttle was flying just last month.

As someone else said, rockets are launched all the time from many different countries.

Answer 3

For this great question I called a few observatories and checked in with
Houston 's chapter of NASA ...

NASA's Space Technology 5 successfully launched today at 9:04 am EST, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on a Pegasus XL rocket.

ST5 Mission
The ST5 micro-satellites successfully launched on March 22, 2006 aboard an Orbital Sciences Pegasus Rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The official launch time was 9:03:45 a.m. EST. NASA's three micro-sats were launched to test and validate new technologies for future science missions.

ST5's objective was to demonstrate and flight qualify several innovative technologies and concepts for application to future space missions.

The ST5 Project is a part of NASA's New Millennium Program, which was created to identify, develop, build, and test innovative technologies and concepts for use in future missions. Its missions are guided by future needs of NASA's Earth and Space Science program.


Upcoming Events

ST5 Technology Symposium 9/13/2006
Results from the ST5 mission will be presented at the ST5 Technology Symposium.
This Symposium will be held September 13, 2006, in the building 8 auditorium at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Answer 4

That's very hard to say. Many countries now have launch capabilities including the US (both at NASA and via military facilities), the Europeans nations via the ESA, France via it's independent launch facilities, Russia, India, China and Japan. Commercial launches can also be conducted by Boeing's Sealaunch facility at whatever ocean location is most advantageous.

http://www.boeing.com/special/sea-launch/

I don't know of any single site that would be able to definitively tell you when the most recent launch occurred since that launch may or may not be public knowledge.

Answer 5

Not long, space launches are quite common. Often it is the military or nasa launching a new sattelite. Private companies also have launched rockets with satellites for telecommunications, telvision, or gps systems.

Answer 6

there's a sparkling launch corporation (referred to as SpaceX) that's arising their own rockets (referred to as the Falcon). they are going to have the capacity to launch small satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) for more beneficial or less 6 million money. that's about as affordable because it receives. To deliver the Mars rovers on a Delta-II booster (rocket) cost nicely over 10 million, each and each. .

Answer 7

The Shuttle Takes Off
July 5, 2006, Wednesday
The apparently successful launch of the shuttle Discovery is cause for restrained jubilation. The astronauts are not out of danger yet. Only further inspections will tell whether their fragile vehicle sustained any significant damage on ascent.

Answer 8

that depends on what you are refering to.
If you are talking about United States I believe a rocket was launched recently

Answer 9

couple weeks ago......i think