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Orbital launches | |
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First | 5 January |
Last | 29 December |
Total | 115 |
Catalogued | 110 |
National firsts | |
Space traveller | Syria |
Rockets | |
Maiden flights | ASLV Energia |
Retirements | Atlas H N-II Titan III(34)B |
Crewed flights | |
Orbital | 3 |
Total travellers | 8 |
The following is an outline of 1987 in spaceflight.
Date and time (UTC) | Rocket | Flight number | Launch site | LSP | |||
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Payload (⚀ = CubeSat) | Operator | Orbit | Function | Decay (UTC) | Outcome | ||
Remarks | |||||||
5 February 21:38:16 | Soyuz-U2 | Baikonur Site 1/5 | |||||
Soyuz TM-2 | Low Earth (Mir) | Mir EO-2 | 30 July 01:04:12 | Successful | |||
Crewed flight launching two cosmonauts and landing three, first crewed flight of Soyuz-TM | |||||||
12 February 06:40 | Titan 34B/Agena-D | Vandenberg SLC-4W | U.S. Air Force | ||||
SDS-1 F-6 [2] | U.S. Air Force | Molniya | Communications | In orbit | Successful | ||
Final flight of the Titan IIIB rocket. Final use of the RM-81 Agena upper stage in any rocket. | |||||||
26 February 23:05 | Delta 3914 | Cape Canaveral LC-17A | |||||
GOES 7 | NOAA | Geostationary | Weather | In orbit | Operational | ||
20 March 23:05 | Delta-3920 | Cape Canaveral LC-17 | |||||
Palapa B2-P | PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara | ? | Communications | In orbit | Successful | ||
31 March 00:16:16 | Proton-K | Baikonur Site 200/39 | |||||
Kvant-1 | 1991–2001: Roskosmos | Low Earth (Mir) | Mir module | 23 March 2001 05:59:36 | Successful | ||
Kvant FSB | Low Earth (Kvant-1) | Space tug | 25 August 1988 | Successful | |||
15 May 17:30:01 | Energia | Baikonur Site 250 | |||||
Polyus | Intended: Low Earth | Weapons tests Technology | 15 May | Launch failure | |||
Maiden flight of Energia, computer error resulted in spacecraft attempting to perform circularisation burn in a retrograde orientation, failed to orbit | |||||||
8 June | RH-300 Mk II | Sriharikota | ISRO | ||||
ISRO | Suborbital | Engineering test | 8 June | Successful | |||
First flight of the RH-300 Mk II, reached an altitude of 130 km (80 miles) | |||||||
22 July 01:59:17 | Soyuz-U2 | Baikonur Site 1/5 | |||||
Soyuz TM-3 | Low Earth (Mir) | Mir EP-1 | 29 December 09:16:15 | Successful | |||
Crewed flight with three cosmonauts, first Syrian in space, carried replacement for ill EO-2 crewmember | |||||||
24 August 16:30 | Skylark 7 | Woomera Test Range LA2 D | MORABA | ||||
Supernova (W-GR-147) | DFVLR | Suborbital | X-ray astronomy | 24 August | Successful | ||
Apogee: ~270 km | |||||||
8 October | Sonda IV | Barreira do Inferno Launch Center | IAE | ||||
IAE | Suborbital | Engineering test | 8 October | Successful | |||
"Operation Petrópolis". R&D launch for the VLS program. 510 kg payload. 570 km apogee. [3] | |||||||
21 November 02:19:00 | Ariane 2 | Kourou ELA-2 | Arianespace | ||||
TV-SAT 1 | Deutsche Bundespost | Current: Graveyard Operational: Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Spacecraft failure | ||
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. | |||||||
21 December 11:18:03 | Soyuz-U2 | Baikonur Site 1/5 | |||||
Soyuz TM-4 | Low Earth (Mir) | Mir EO-3 | 17 June 1988 10:12:32 | Successful | |||
Crewed flight with three cosmonauts |
There were no deep-space rendezvous in 1987.
The year 1967 in spaceflight saw the most orbital launches of the 20th century and more than any other year until 2021, including that of the first Australian satellite, WRESAT, which was launched from the Woomera Test Range atop an American Sparta rocket. The United States National Space Science Data Center catalogued 172 spacecraft placed into orbit by launches which occurred in 1967.
The United States National Space Science Data Center catalogued 157 spacecraft placed into orbit by launches which occurred in 1968. The first crewed Apollo missions occurred in 1968. It was also the year in which Earth lifeforms first left low Earth orbit, during the successful Zond 5 mission to the Moon and the Zond 6 lunar mission which crashed upon return, and the year that humans first left low Earth orbit, during the successful Apollo 8 mission to the Moon.
Explorer 1 was the first American satellite to reach orbit on 31 January 1958.
1973 saw the launch of the first American Space station known as Skylab on a Saturn V rocket.
The following is an outline of 1983 in spaceflight.
The year 1986 saw the destruction of Space Shuttle Challenger shortly after lift-off, killing all seven aboard, the first in-flight deaths of American astronauts. This accident followed the successful flight of Columbia just weeks earlier, and dealt a major setback to the U.S. crewed space program, suspending the Shuttle program for 32 months.
The following is an outline of 1989 in spaceflight.
1978 saw the launch of the Pioneer Venus missions launched by the United States, on 20 May and 8 August. The Pioneer Venus Multiprobe landed four spacecraft on the planet, one of which transmitted data for 67 minutes before being destroyed by atmospheric pressure. ISEE-C, which was launched on 8 December, flew past comet 21P/Giacobini–Zinner in 1985, and Halley's Comet in 1986.
The following is an outline of 1976 in spaceflight.
The following is an outline of 1979 in spaceflight.
The following is an outline of 1980 in spaceflight.
The following is an outline of 1988 in spaceflight.
This is a list of spaceflights launched between July and December 1960. For launches between January and June, see 1960 in spaceflight (January–June). For an overview of the whole year, see 1960 in spaceflight.
This is a list of spaceflights launched between April and June 1964. For launches in the rest of the year, see 1964 in spaceflight (January–March), 1964 in spaceflight (July–September) and 1964 in spaceflight (October–December). For an overview of the whole year, see 1964 in spaceflight.
This is a list of spaceflights launched between April and June 1965. For launches in the rest of the year, see 1965 in spaceflight (January–March), 1965 in spaceflight (July–September) and 1965 in spaceflight (October–December). For an overview of the whole year, see 1965 in spaceflight.