Russia Discloses Spacecraft Launch Data

Disclosing once-secret missions, a new report prepared for Parliament on Thursday says Russia and the Soviet Union have put nearly 3,000 satellites or spacecraft into orbit.

The launches were made public during parliamentary hearings on space exploration.

More than 5 percent of the launches, including tests, were aborted, and 2 percent of the satellites veered into miscalculated orbits, ITAR-Tass said without elaborating.

The data cover all flights since the Soviet Union launched the space era by sending Sputnik into orbit in 1957. A total of 2,656 booster rockets have launched 2,976 satellites into orbit since then.