1987 in spaceflight
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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 |
Launches
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 | |||
Manned flight launching two cosmonauts and landing three, first manned flight of Soyuz-TM | |||||||
26 February 23:05 |
Delta 3914 | Cape Canaveral LC-17A | |||||
GOES 7 | NOAA | Geostationary | Weather | In orbit | Operational | ||
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 | |||||||
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
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- Pietrobon, Steven. "Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive".
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- Webb, Brian. "Southwest Space Archive".
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- "NSSDCA Master Catalog". NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Footnotes