A resupply mission on Thursday was the 100th in a row that passed off successfully
Russia’s Roscosmos space agency reached the landmark of 100 consecutive successful launches on Thursday, after sending a freighter to the International Space Station (ISS).
The unbroken run of success began in October 2018 and has involved launches from four different locations: the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East, and the Guiana Space Center in the French overseas territory in South America.
The vast majority of space-launch vehicles used in the century of successful launches were from the time-tested Soyuz family, with 82 included in the streak. Four belonged to the new Angara models, with heavy Proton and light Rokot rockets accounting for the rest of the missions.
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