Proton? It has about 89 percent success, nowhere close to Falcon 9’s 99 percent success rate.
Soyuz is the most reliable launch vehicle and spacecraft that's ever existed.
Soyuz-U had 765 successes in 786 flights. (97.3%) Soyuz-FG had 69 successes in 70 flights (98.5%) Soyuz-2 has 160 successes in 166 flights (96.3%)
Falcon 9 has 362 successes in 365 flights. (99.1%). That includes the partial failure of the CRS-1 mission, which successfully delivered CRS-1 to the space station but released secondary payloads into a lower than expected orbit. It does't include the AMOS-6 fire, which would bring Falcon 9 down 98.9%.
Falcon 9 is more reliable than Soyuz.
You made the comparison first. Are you taking it back then?
Falcon 9 had its first flight in... 2010.
Id personally rather ride Falcon, but to each his own I guess.
I was merely pointing out that soyuz has like 1500+ launches over Falcon 9 and that there is no comparison.
Not the current variants. If we’re integrating everything called Soyuz we may we well do the same with Long March and every American rocket that uses similar engines.
Falcon is widely considered the most reliable platform you can launch on today.
Every statistical audit I’ve seen by someone with a background in aerospace engineering.
> Soyuz has like a 98% average success rate over all the variants
Great. You don’t get to fly on “all the variants,” you fly on the most recent. The RD-107A, 108A and Soyuz-2 are not as reliable as Falcon 9.