1962 August 1 - 21:07 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Atlas. Atlas F 15F Research and development test Agency: USAF. Apogee: 1,400 km (800 mi). First successful Atlas F flight at operational site, SMS 576E (15F)

1963 March 24 - 00:29 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Atlas. Atlas F 52F FAILURE: Failure. OT TALL TREE 4 operational test launch Agency: USAF SAC. Apogee: 10 km (6 mi).

1964 August 7 - 20:12 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Atlas. Atlas F 110F Demonstration and shakedown operations launch Agency: USAF SAC. Apogee: 1,400 km (800 mi).

1964 December 22 - 19:15 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Atlas. Atlas F 111F ST Agency: USAF SAC. Apogee: 1,400 km (800 mi).

1994 March 13 - 22:32 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Taurus. ARPA Taurus T1 1110 USA 101 Mass: 502 kg (1,106 lb). Spacecraft: TAOS. Agency: USAF. Perigee: 555 km (344 mi). Apogee: 561 km (348 mi). Inclination: 105.00 deg. Period: 95.80 min. Space Test Experiment Program; 10 satellite subsystem experiments. Space craft engaged in investigation of spaceflight techniques and technology (US Cat A).

1998 February 10 - 13:20 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Taurus. Taurus 2210 T2 GFO Spacecraft: GFO. Agency: USN. Perigee: 786 km (488 mi). Apogee: 788 km (489 mi). Inclination: 108.10 deg. Period: 100.60 min. Altimeter.

1998 October 3 - 10:04 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Taurus. ARPA Taurus T3 1110 STEX Spacecraft: STEX. Agency: NRO. Perigee: 744 km (462 mi). Apogee: 759 km (472 mi). Inclination: 84.99 deg. Period: 99.77 min. Tested TAL-D55 plasma engine and was to be part of the NRO's ATex tether experiment. The ATeX lower end mass was meant to remain attached to the STEX parent spacecraft, but with only 21 m of tether deployed, it appeared the tether was so far off vertical that automatic safety systems jettisoned the base to protect the remainder of the STEX satellite. Thus, the upper and lower ATeX end masses were in orbit as one object connected by a 21 m tether, and designated USA 141 (1998-055C). The main STEX satellite was in orbit as a separate object, 1998-055A.

1999 December 21 - 07:13 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Taurus. Taurus 2110 T4 Kompsat Mass: 470 kg (1,030 lb). Spacecraft: KOMPSAT. Agency: KARI. Perigee: 690 km (420 mi). Apogee: 722 km (448 mi). Inclination: 98.30 deg. Korean Multipurpose Satellite; carried an ocean color sensor developed by TRW and particle detectors. KOMPSAT was built by the Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) based on a test model built by TRW; it used the TRW STEP Lightsat bus and had a mass of around 500 kg, with 73 kg of hydrazine fuel.

2000 March 12 - 09:29 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Taurus. Taurus 1110 T5 MTI Mass: 587 kg (1,294 lb). Spacecraft: MTI. Agency: Sandia. Perigee: 574 km (357 mi). Apogee: 609 km (378 mi). Inclination: 97.40 deg. Period: 96.42 min. Military Technology. Sandia Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI), aka USAF Space Test Program mission P97-3. The satellite was equipped with a hyperspectral imager for military target recognition / treaty monitoring applications.

2001 September 21 - 18:49 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Taurus. Taurus 2110 T6 FAILURE: A problem a few seconds after first stage separation caused the rocket to go off course; it recovered and the remainder of the stages fired, but final cutoff velocity was too low to reach a sustainable orbit. Orbview-4 Mass: 368 kg (811 lb). Spacecraft: Orbview. Agency: Orbimage (U.S.). Launch delayed from June 27, July 18/22, August 12/21 and September1. The Orbital Sciences Taurus 2110 failed to remain in orbit. A problem a few seconds after first stage separation caused the T6 rocket to go off course; the rocket recovered and the remainder of the stages fired, but final cutoff velocity was too low to reach a sustainable orbit. The Castor 120 zero stage was on course but the Orion 50S first stage motor went off course. The satellites separated from the final stage as planned but burned up in the earth's atmosphere northeast of Madagascar before completing the first orbit. The final orbit was about 75-80 km x 425-430 km x 97 deg. The primary payload was the OrbView-4 imaging satellite. OrbView-4, built by Orbital, was a 368 kg box-shaped spacecraft carrying a 1-m resolution panchromatic camera and an 8-m resolution 200-channel hyperspectral imager with a 0.45-meter aperture. It was to be used by the US Air Force.

2003 February 6 - 21:00 GMT - Launch Vehicle: OBV. OBV 1 BV-6 Boost Vehicle Test Flight Agency: OSC. Apogee: 1,810 km (1,120 mi). Successful first launch of the prototype of the three-stage version of the Taurus launch vehicle being developed by Orbital Sciences for Boeing for use in the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system. The vehicle launched the dummy payload on a trajectory over the Pacific Ocean, reaching an altitude of 2100 km and traveling 6500 km down range.