1983 in spaceflight

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[edit] Launches

This is a list of spaceflights launched in 1983.

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Launch Date/Time Rocket Launch
Site		 Launch Contractor Payload Operator Orbit Mission/
Function		 Re-Entry/
Destruction		 Outcome Remarks
4 April
6:30:00 UTC		 Space Shuttle Challenger LC-39A, Cape Canaveral USA STS-6, 4 astronauts NASA LEO Manned orbital flight 9 April 1983 Successful
TRW TDRS A Satellite Business Systems Geostationary orbit Communications satellite Still in orbit Successful Supporting Antarctic communications
18 June
13:33:00 UTC		 Space Shuttle Challenger LC-39A, Cape Canaveral USA STS-7, 5 astronauts NASA LEO Manned orbital flight 24 June 1983 Successful
Hughes Anik C2 Telesat Canada Geostationary orbit Communications satellite Graveyard orbit Successful Sold to Paracom S.A. 1993;Retired 7 January 1998
Hughes Palapa B-l Telkom Indonesia Geostaionary Communications satellite Still in orbit Successful so far
Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm SPAS-l NASA LEO Technology development 24 June 1983 Successful Deployed and retrieved by SRMS
Joint U.S.-West Germany OSTA-2 Open Systems Technology Associates LEO scientific pallet 24 June 1983 Successful
30 August
8:32:00 UTC		 Space Shuttle Challenger LC-39A, Cape Canaveral USA STS-8, 5 astronauts, 6 Rats NASA LEO Manned orbital flight 5 September 1983 Successful
NASA INSAT-1B IRSO Geostationary orbit multipurpose Comsat Still in orbit Successful so far
28 November
16:00:00 UTC		 Space Shuttle Columbia LC-39A, Cape Canaveral USA STS-9, 6 astronauts NASA LEO Manned orbital flight 8 December 1983 Successful
NASA Spacelab NASA/ESA LEO Microgravity experiments 8 December 1983 Successful reusable laboratory

[edit] Deep-space rendezvous

[edit] EVAs

Start Date/Time Duration End Time Spacecraft Crew Function Remarks
7 April, 21:05 UTC 4 hours, 10 mins 1:15UTC STS-6 (Challenger) Story Musgrave
Donald H. Peterson		 Payload bay tests First shuttle EVA

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Preceded by
1982		 Timeline of spaceflight
1983		 Succeeded by
1984