1987 in spaceflight

1987 in spaceflight
Orbital launches
The Atlas H launches on its final flight
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
Manned flights
Orbital	3
Total travellers	8

Launches

Date and time (UTC)	Rocket		Launch site		LSP
	Payload	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
	Manned flight launching two cosmonauts and landing three, first manned flight of Soyuz-TM
12 February 06:40	Titan 34B/Agena-D		Vandenberg SLC-4W		U.S. Air Force
	SDS-1 F-6^[1]	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
26 February 23:05	GOES 7	NOAA	Geostationary	Weather	In orbit	Operational
20 March 23:05	Delta-3920		Cape Canaveral LC-17
20 March 23:05	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
	Manned flight with three cosmonauts, first Syrian in space, carried replacement for ill EO-2 crewmember
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
	Manned flight with three cosmonauts

Deep-space rendezvous

There were no deep-space rendezvous in 1987.

References

Bergin, Chris. "NASASpaceFlight.com".
Clark, Stephen. "Spaceflight Now".
Kelso, T.S. "Satellite Catalog (SATCAT)". CelesTrak.
Krebs, Gunter. "Chronology of Space Launches".
Kyle, Ed. "Space Launch Report".
McDowell, Jonathan. "Jonathan's Space Report".
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.
"Space Calendar". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
"Space Information Center". JAXA.
"Хроника освоения космоса" [Chronicle of space exploration]. CosmoWorld (in Russian).

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Footnotes

↑ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1987-015A

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