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The following is an outline of
1987 in spaceflight
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Launches
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Date and time (
UTC
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Rocket
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Flight number
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Launch site
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LSP
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Payload
(? =
CubeSat
)
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Operator
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Orbit
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Function
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Decay
(UTC)
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Outcome
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Remarks
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5 February
21:38:16
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Soyuz-U2
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Baikonur
Site 1/5
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Soyuz TM-2
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Low Earth
(
Mir
)
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Mir
EO-2
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30 July
01:04:12
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Successful
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Crewed flight launching two
cosmonauts
and landing three, first crewed flight of
Soyuz-TM
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12 February
06:40
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Titan 34B
/
Agena-D
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Vandenberg
SLC-4W
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U.S. Air Force
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SDS-1 F-6
[1]
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U.S. Air Force
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Molniya
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Communications
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In orbit
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Successful
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Final flight of the
Titan IIIB
rocket. Final use of the
RM-81 Agena
upper stage in any rocket.
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26 February
23:05
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Delta 3914
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Cape Canaveral
LC-17A
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GOES 7
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NOAA
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Geostationary
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Weather
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In orbit
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Operational
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20 March
23:05
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Delta-3920
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Cape Canaveral
LC-17
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Palapa B2-P
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PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara
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?
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Communications
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In orbit
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Successful
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31 March
00:16:16
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Proton-K
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Baikonur
Site 200/39
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Kvant-1
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1991?2001:
Roskosmos
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Low Earth (Mir)
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Mir module
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23 March 2001
05:59:36
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Successful
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Kvant FSB
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Low Earth (Kvant-1)
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Space tug
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25 August 1988
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Successful
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15 May
17:30:01
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Energia
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Baikonur
Site 250
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Polyus
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Intended: Low Earth
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Weapons tests
Technology
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15 May
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Launch failure
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Maiden flight of Energia, computer error resulted in spacecraft attempting to perform circularisation burn in a
retrograde
orientation, failed to orbit
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8 June
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RH-300 Mk II
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Sriharikota
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ISRO
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ISRO
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Suborbital
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Engineering test
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8 June
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Successful
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First flight of the RH-300 Mk II, reached an altitude of 130 km (80 miles)
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22 July
01:59:17
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Soyuz-U2
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Baikonur Site 1/5
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Soyuz TM-3
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Low Earth (Mir)
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Mir
EP-1
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29 December
09:16:15
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Successful
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Crewed flight with three cosmonauts, first
Syrian
in space, carried replacement for ill EO-2 crewmember
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8 October
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Sonda IV
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Barreira do Inferno Launch Center
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IAE
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IAE
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Suborbital
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Engineering test
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8 October
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Successful
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"Operation Petropolis". R&D launch for the
VLS
program. 510 kg payload. 570 km perigee.
[2]
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21 November
02:19:00
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Ariane 2
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Kourou
ELA-2
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Arianespace
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TV-SAT 1
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Deutsche Bundespost
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Current:
Graveyard
Operational:
Geosynchronous
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Communications
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In orbit
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Spacecraft failure
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Immediately after launch, one of its solar panels failed to deploy, and as a result of this the main uplink antenna, which was located behind the solar panel, could not deploy either. Briefly used to verify the systems of the
Spacebus 300
satellite bus before being retired to a graveyard orbit.
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21 December
11:18:03
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Soyuz-U2
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Baikonur Site 1/5
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Soyuz TM-4
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Low Earth (Mir)
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Mir
EO-3
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17 June 1988
10:12:32
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Successful
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Crewed flight with three cosmonauts
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Deep-space rendezvous
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There were no deep-space rendezvous in 1987.
References
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edit
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- Bergin, Chris.
"NASASpaceFlight.com"
.
- Clark, Stephen.
"Spaceflight Now"
.
- Kelso, T.S.
"Satellite Catalog (SATCAT)"
. CelesTrak.
[
dead link
]
- Krebs, Gunter.
"Chronology of Space Launches"
.
- Kyle, Ed.
"Space Launch Report"
. Archived from
the original
on 5 October 2009
. Retrieved
13 August
2022
.
- McDowell, Jonathan.
"GCAT Orbital Launch Log"
.
- Pietrobon, Steven.
"Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive"
.
- Wade, Mark.
"Encyclopedia Astronautica"
.
- Webb, Brian.
"Southwest Space Archive"
.
- Zak, Anatoly.
"Russian Space Web"
.
- "ISS Calendar"
.
Spaceflight 101
.
- "NSSDCA Master Catalog"
.
NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive
.
NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center
.
- "Space Calendar"
.
NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
.
[
dead link
]
- "Space Information Center"
.
JAXA
.
[
dead link
]
- "Хроника освоения космоса"
[Chronicle of space exploration].
CosmoWorld
(in Russian).
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Launches are separated by dots ( ? ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ).
Crewed flights
are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
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