1989 in spaceflight


The Galileo probe is deployed from Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-34, beginning a fourteen year mission to Jupiter
Orbital launches
First 10 January
Last 27 December
Total 102
Successes 101
Failures 1
Rockets
Maiden Flights Ariane 4 44L
Delta 4925
Delta 5920
Delta II 6925
Titan IVA
Retirements Ariane 2
Ariane 3
Atlas G
Delta 3920
Delta 5920
Titan 34D
Manned flights
Orbital 6
Total travellers 27

Contents


Launches

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Date and time (UTC) Rocket Launch site LSP
Payload Operator Orbit Function Decay (UTC) Outcome
Remarks

January
10 January
02:05		 Proton-K/DM-2 Baikonur Site 200/39
Kosmos 1987 (GLONASS) Medium Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
Kosmos 1988 (GLONASS) Medium Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
Kosmos 1989 (Etalon-2) Medium Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
12 January
11:29		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk Site 16/2
Kosmos 1990 (Resurs-F2) Low Earth Reconnaissance 11 February Successful
18 January
08:20		 Soyuz-U Baikonur
Kosmos 1991 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 1 February Successful
26 January
09:16		 Proton-K/DM-2 Baikonur Site 200/40
Gorizont 17 Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful
26 January
15:36		 Kosmos-3M Plesetsk Site 132/2
Kosmos 1992 (Strela-2M) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
27 January
01:23		 Ariane 2 Kourou ELA-1 Arianespace
Intelsat 515 Intelsat Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful
28 January
12:30		 Soyuz-U Baikonur
Kosmos 1993 (Yantar-4K2) Low Earth Reconnaissance 27 March Successful

February
10 February
08:53		 Soyuz-U2 Baikonur Site 1/5
Progress 40 Low Earth (Mir) Logistics 5 March
01:59		 Successful
10 February
15:13		 Tsyklon-3 Plesetsk Site 32
Kosmos 1994 (Strela-3) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
Kosmos 1995 (Strela-3) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
Kosmos 1996 (Strela-3) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
Kosmos 1997 (Strela-3) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
Kosmos 1998 (Strela-3) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
Kosmos 1999 (Strela-3) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
10 February
16:55		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk
Kosmos 2000 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 3 March Successful
14 February
04:21		 Molniya-M/2BL Plesetsk
Kosmos 2001 (Oko) Molniya Early warning In orbit Successful
14 February
17:00		 Kosmos-3M Plesetsk Site 132/2
Kosmos 2002 (Taifun-2) Low Earth Radar calibration 15 October Successful
14 February
18:30		 Delta II 6925 Cape Canaveral LC-17A McDonnell Douglas
USA-35 (GPS II-1) US Air Force Medium Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
Maiden flight of Delta II 6925
First flight of Block II GPS satellite
15 February
11:00		 Molniya-M/ML Baikonur
Molniya 1-75 Molniya Communications In orbit Successful
17 February
14:59		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk
Kosmos 2003 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 3 March Successful
21 February
23:30		 Mu-3S-II Uchinoura ISAS
Akebono ISAS Low Earth Aurora observation In orbit Operational
22 February
03:28		 Kosmos-3M Plesetsk Site 132/2
Kosmos 2004 (Parus) Low Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
28 February
04:05		 Tsyklon-3 Plesetsk Site 32
Meteor 2-18 Low Earth Earth sciences In orbit Successful

March
2 March
18:59		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk
Kosmos 2005 (Yantar-4K2) Low Earth Reconnaissance 25 April Successful
6 March
23:29		 Ariane 4 44LP Kourou ELA-2 Arianespace
JCSAT 1 JSAT Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful
Meteosat 4 EUMETSAT Geosynchronous Weather satellite In orbit Successful
13 March
14:57		 Space Shuttle Discovery Kennedy LC-39B
STS-29 NASA Low Earth Satellite deployment 18 March
14:36		 Successful
TDRS-4 (TDRS-D) NASA Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Operational
Manned orbital flight with 5 astronauts
16 March
14:59		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk
Kosmos 2006 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 31 March Successful
16 March
18:54		 Soyuz-U2 Baikonur Site 1/5
Progress 41 Low Earth (Mir) Logistics 25 April
12:12		 Successful
23 March
12:25		 Soyuz-U Baikonur
Kosmos 2007 (Yantar-4KS1) Low Earth Reconnaissance 22 September Successful
24 March
13:38		 Kosmos-3M Plesetsk Site 132/2
Kosmos 2008 (Strela-1M) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
Kosmos 2009 (Strela-1M) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
Kosmos 2010 (Strela-1M) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
Kosmos 2011 (Strela-1M) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
Kosmos 2012 (Strela-1M) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
Kosmos 2013 (Strela-1M) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
Kosmos 2014 (Strela-1M) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
Kosmos 2015 (Strela-1M) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
24 March
21:50		 Delta 3920 Cape Canaveral LC-17B McDonnell Douglas
USA-36 (Delta Star) US Air Force Low Earth Technology development 23 June 1992 Successful
Final flight of Delta 3920

April
2 April
02:28		 Ariane 2 Kourou ELA-1 Arianespace
Tele-X Nordic Satellite AB Operational: Geosynchronous
Current: Graveyard		 Communications In orbit Successful
Final flight of Ariane 2
Tele-X retired 16 January 1998
4 April
18:36		 Kosmos-3M Plesetsk Site 132/2
Kosmos 2016 (Parus) Low Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
6 April
14:00		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk
Kosmos 2017 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 19 April Successful
14 April
04:08		 Proton-K/DM-2 Baikonur Site 200/39
Raduga 23 Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful
20 April
18:29		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk
Kosmos 2018 (Yantar-4K2) Low Earth Reconnaissance 19 June Successful
26 April
17:00		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk Site 41/1
Foton 5 Low Earth Microgravity research 11 May Successful

May
4 May
18:47		 Space Shuttle Atlantis Kennedy LC-39B
STS-30 NASA Low Earth Interstellar probe deployment 8 May
05:43		 Successful
Magellan NASA Cytherean Radar mapping 12 October 1994 Successful
Manned orbital flight with 5 astronauts
5 May
13:00		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk
Kosmos 2019 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 18 May Successful
10 May
19:47		 Titan 34D/Transtage Cape Canaveral LC-40 Martin Marietta
USA-37 (Vortex 6) NRO Geosynchronous SIGINT In orbit Successful
17 May
13:00		 Soyuz-U Baikonur
Kosmos 2020 (Yantar-4K2) Low Earth Reconnaissance 15 July Successful
24 May
10:30		 Soyuz-U Baikonur
Kosmos 2021 (Yantar-1KFT) Low Earth Reconnaissance 6 July Successful
25 May
08:50		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk Site 43/3
Resurs-F1 Low Earth Reconnaissance 17 June Successful
Pion 1 Low Earth Atmospheric research 23 July Successful
Pion 2 Low Earth Atmospheric research 24 July Successful
31 May
08:31		 Proton-K/DM-2 Baikonur Site 200/40
Kosmos 2022 (GLONASS) Medium Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
Kosmos 2023 (GLONASS) Medium Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
Kosmos 2024 (Etalon 2) Medium Earth Navigation In orbit Successful

June
1 June
12:59		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk
Kosmos 2025 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 15 June Successful
5 June
22:37		 Ariane 4 44L Kourou ELA-2 Arianespace
Superbird A SCC Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful
DFS-1 Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful
Maiden flight of Ariane 4 44L
7 June
05:12		 Kosmos-3M Plesetsk Site 132/2
Kosmos 2026 (Parus) Low Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
8 June
17:09		 Molniya-M/ML Plesetsk
Molniya 3-45L Molniya Communications 14 December 2001 Successful
9 June
10:10		 Tsyklon-3 Plesetsk Site 32/2
Okean-01 Intended: Low Earth 9 June Launch failure
10 June
22:19		 Delta II 6925 Cape Canaveral LC-17A McDonnell Douglas
USA-38 (GPS II-2) US Air Force Medium Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
14 June
12:30		 Kosmos-3M Plesetsk Site 133/3
Kosmos 2027 (Taifun-1) Low Earth Radar calibration 14 April 1992 Successful
14 June
13:18		 Titan IVA 402/IUS Cape Canaveral LC-41 Martin Marietta
USA-39 (DSP-14) US Air Force Geosynchronous Early warning In orbit Operational
Maiden flight of Titan IVA
16 June
09:30		 Soyuz-U Baikonur
Kosmos 2028 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 6 July Successful
21 June
23:35		 Proton-K/DM-2 Baikonur Site 200/39
Raduga 1-1 Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful
27 June
08:04		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk Site 16/2
Resurs-F2 Low Earth Reconnaissance 11 July Successful

July
4 July
15:21		 Kosmos-3M Plesetsk Site 133/3
Nadezhda 1 Low Earth Maritime surveillance In orbit Successful
5 July
08:00		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk
Kosmos 2029 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 17 July Successful
5 July
22:45		 Proton-K/DM-2 Baikonur Site 200/40
Gorizont 18 Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful
12 July
00:14		 Ariane 3 Kourou ELA-1 Arianespace
Olympus 1 ESA Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful
Final flight of Ariane 3 and launch from ELA-1
12 July
15:00		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk
Kosmos 2030 (Yantar-4K2) Low Earth Reconnaissance 28 July Spacecraft failure
Spacecraft exploded in orbit on 28 July
18 July
09:44		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk Site 16/2
Resurs-F3 Low Earth Reconnaissance 8 August Successful
Pion 3 Low Earth Atmospheric research 19 September Successful
Pion 4 Low Earth Atmospheric research 19 September Successful
18 July
12:10		 Soyuz-U2 Baikonur Site 1/5
Kosmos 2031 (Ortlets-1) Low Earth Reconnaissance 15 September Successful
20 July
08:59		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk
Kosmos 2032 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 3 August Successful
24 July
00:00		 Tsyklon-2 Baikonur Site 90
Kosmos 2033 (US-P) Low Earth ELINT 6 January 1991 Successful
25 July
07:48		 Kosmos-3M Plesetsk Site 133/3
Kosmos 2034 (Parus) Low Earth Navigation In orbit Successful

August
2 August
11:29		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk
Kosmos 2035 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 16 August Successful
8 August
12:37		 Space Shuttle Columbia Kennedy LC-39B
STS-28 NASA Low Earth Satellite deployment 13 August Successful
USA-40 (SDS-2-1) US Air Force Molniya Communications In orbit Successful
USA-41 DoD SIGINT In orbit Successful
Manned orbital flight with 5 astronauts
8 August
23:25		 Ariane 4 44LP Kourou ELA-2 Arianespace
TV-Sat 2 Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful
Hipparcos ESA Geosynchronous transfer Astronomy In orbit Successful
15 August
10:29		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk Site 43/4
Resurs-F4 Low Earth Reconnaissance 14 September Successful
18 August
05:57		 Delta II 6925 Cape Canaveral LC-17A McDonnell Douglas
USA-42 (GPS II-3) US Air Force Medium Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
22 August
12:59		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk
Kosmos 2036 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 5 September Successful
23 August
03:09		 Soyuz-U2 Baikonur Site 1/5
Progress M-1 Low Earth (Mir) Logistics 1 December
11:21		 Successful
Maiden flight of Progress-M spacecraft
27 August
22:59		 Delta 4925 Cape Canaveral LC-17B McDonnell Douglas
Marco Polo 1 BSkyB Operational: Geosynchronous
Current: Graveyard		 Communications In orbit Successful
Maiden flight of Delta 4925
28 August
00:14		 Tsyklon-3 Plesetsk Site 32/2
Kosmos 2037 (Geo-IK) Low Earth Earth science In orbit Successful

September
4 September
05:54		 Titan 34D/Transtage Cape Canaveral LC-40 Martin Marietta
USA-43 (DSCS-II) DoD Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Operational
USA-44 (DSCS-III) DoD Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Operational
Final flight of Titan 34D and Transtage upper stage
5 September
19:11		 H-I Tanegashima LA-N Mitsubishi
GMS-4 NASDA Geosynchronous Weather satellite In orbit Successful
5 September
21:38		 Soyuz-U2 Baikonur Site 1/5
Soyuz TM-8 Low Earth (Mir) Mir EO-5 19 February 1990
04:36		 Successful
Manned orbital flight with 2 cosmonauts
6 September
01:48		 Titan II 23G Vandenberg SLC-4W Martin Marietta
USA-45 DoD SIGINT In orbit Successful
6 September
10:49		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk Site 43/3
/Resurs-F5 Low Earth Microgravity experiments 22 September Successful
14 September
09:49		 Tsyklon-3 Plesetsk Site 32
Kosmos 2038 (Strela-3) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
Kosmos 2039 (Strela-3) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
Kosmos 2040 (Strela-3) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
Kosmos 2041 (Strela-3) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
Kosmos 2042 (Strela-3) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
Kosmos 2043 (Strela-3) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
15 September
06:30		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk
//Kosmos 2044 (Bion 9) ESA/NASA Low Earth Microgravity research 29 September Successful
22 September
08:00		 Soyuz-U Baikonur
Kosmos 2045 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 2 October Successful
25 September
08:56		 Atlas G Cape Canaveral LC-36B Lockheed
USA-46 (FLTSATCOM 8) DoD Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful
Final flight of Atlas G
27 September
14:38		 Molniya-M/ML Plesetsk
Molniya 1-76 Molniya Communications 11 November 2000 Successful
27 September
16:20		 Tsyklon-2 Baikonur Site 90
Kosmos 2046 (US-P) Low Earth Naval reconnaissance 16 April 1991 Successful
28 September
00:04		 Tsyklon-3 Plesetsk Site 32/2
Intercosmos 24 Low Earth Atmospheric research In orbit Successful
Magion 2 Low Earth Atmospheric research In orbit Successful
28 September
17:05		 Proton-K/DM-2 Baikonur Site 200/40
Gorizont 19 Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful

October
3 October
14:59		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk
Kosmos 2047 (Yantar-4K2) Low Earth Reconnaissance 21 November Successful
17 October
13:00		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk
Kosmos 2048 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 26 October Successful
18 October
16:53		 Space Shuttle Atlantis Kennedy LC-39B
STS-34 NASA Low Earth Interstellar probe deployment 23 October Successful
Galileo NASA Jovian Jupiter orbiter 21 September 2003 Successful
Galileo Probe NASA Jovian Jupiter entry probe 7 December 1995 Successful
Manned orbital flight with 5 astronauts
21 October
09:31		 Delta II 6925 Cape Canaveral LC-17A McDonnell Douglas
USA-47 (GPS II-4) US Air Force Medium Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
24 October
21:35		 Tsyklon-3 Plesetsk Site 32
Meteor 3-3 Low Earth Earth science In orbit Successful
27 October
23:05		 Ariane 4 44L Kourou ELA-2 Arianespace
Intelsat 602 Intelsat Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful

November
17 November
10:50		 Soyuz-U Baikonur
Kosmos 2049 (Yantar-4KS1) Low Earth Reconnaissance 19 June 1990 Successful
18 November
14:34		 Delta 5920 Vandenberg SLC-2W McDonnell Douglas
COBE NASA Sun-synchronous Cosmology In orbit Successful
Only flight of Delta 5920
23 November
00:23		 Space Shuttle Discovery Kennedy LC-39B
STS-33 NASA Low Earth Satellite deployment 28 November Successful
USA-48 (Magnum-2) NRO Geosynchronous ELINT In orbit Operational
Manned orbital flight with 5 astronauts
23 November
20:35		 Molniya-M/2BL Plesetsk
Kosmos 2050 (Oko) Molniya Early warning In orbit Successful
24 November
23:22		 Tsyklon-2 Baikonur Site 90
Kosmos 2051 (US-P) Low Earth Naval reconnaissance 21 January 1991 Successful
26 November
13:01		 Proton-K Baikonur Site 200/39
Kvant-2 Low Earth (Mir) Mir component 23 March 2001
05:50		 Successful
28 November
10:02		 Molniya-M/ML Plesetsk
Molniya 3-46L Molniya Communications 20 May 2000 Successful
30 November
15:00		 Soyuz-U Plesetsk
Kosmos 2052 (Yantar-4K2) Low Earth Reconnaissance 24 January 1990 Successful

December
1 December
20:20		 Proton-K/D-1 Baikonur Site 200/40
/Granat CNES High Earth Astronomy 25 May 1999 Successful
11 December
18:10		 Delta II 6925 Cape Canaveral LC-17B McDonnell Douglas
USA-49 (GPS II-5) US Air Force Medium Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
15 December
11:30		 Proton-K/DM-2 Baikonur Site 81/23
Raduga 24 Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful
20 December
03:30		 Soyuz-U2 Baikonur Site 1/5
Progress M-2 Low Earth (Mir) Logistics 9 February 1990
07:56		 Successful
27 December
00:00		 Tsyklon-3 Plesetsk Site 32/2
Kosmos 2053 (Koltso 2) Low Earth Radar calibration 2 September 1997 Successful
27 December
11:10		 Proton-K/DM-2 Baikonur Site 200/39
Kosmos 2054 (Luch) Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Operational
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Deep-space rendezvous

Date (GMT) Spacecraft Event Remarks
23 January Phobos 1 Flyby of Mars Failed orbiter mission
29 January Phobos 2 Areocentric orbit injection
27 March Phobos 2 Enters synchronous orbit of Phobos
25 August Voyager 2 Flyby of Neptune Closest approach: 44,800 kilometres (27,800 mi)

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Preceded by
1988		 Timeline of spaceflight
1989		 Succeeded by
1990