1988 in spaceflight
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Orbital launches | |
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First | 6 January 1988 |
Last | 29 December 1988 |
Total | 121 |
Catalogued | 116 |
National firsts | |
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Rockets | |
Maiden flights | Ariane 4 Long March 4A Shavit |
Retirements | Energia Titan 34D |
Crewed flights | |
Orbital | 5 |
Total travellers | 19 |
The following is an outline of 1988 in spaceflight.
Launches
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Payload (⚀ = CubeSat) |
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7 June 21:38:16 |
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Low Earth (Mir) | Mir EP-2 | 7 September 00:48:38 |
Successful | |||
Crewed flight launching three cosmonauts and landing two, computer problems during deorbit nearly resulted in loss of crew, and delayed landing by one day | |||||||
15 June 11:19 |
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EUMETSAT | GTO | Meteorology | In orbit | Successful | ||
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PanAmSat | GTO | Communications | In orbit | Successful | ||
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AMSAT | Low Earth | Amateur radio | 6 December 1996 | Successful | ||
Maiden flight of the Ariane 4 rocket | |||||||
7 July 17:38 |
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Intended: Areocentric Actual: Heliocentric |
Mars orbiter | In orbit | Spacecraft failure | |||
stationary lander | Phobos lander | In orbit | Never deployed | ||||
Loss of communication 2 September 1988 en route to Mars | |||||||
12 July 17:01 |
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Areocentric | Mars orbiter | In orbit | Spacecraft failure | |||
stationary lander | Phobos lander | In orbit | Never deployed | ||||
"hopping" lander | Phobos lander | In orbit | Never deployed | ||||
Loss of communication 27 March 1989 near Phobos | |||||||
29 August 04:23:11 |
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Low Earth (Mir) | Mir EP-3 | 21 December 09:57:00 |
Successful | |||
Crewed flight with three cosmonauts, one remained on Mir as part of EO-3, first Afghan space traveller | |||||||
29 September 15:37:00 |
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NASA | Low Earth | Satellite deployment | 3 October 16:37:11 |
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NASA | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
Crewed flight with five astronauts, first US crewed spaceflight after the Challenger accident in 1986, TDRS deployed using Inertial Upper Stage | |||||||
15 November 03:00:02 |
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Low Earth | Test flight | 06:26 | Successful | |||
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Low Earth (Buran) | Test flight | Successful | ||||
Uncrewed test, only flight of Buran and final flight of Energia | |||||||
26 November 14:49:34 |
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Low Earth (Mir) | Mir EO-4/EP-4 | 27 April 1989 02:57:58 |
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Crewed flight with three cosmonauts | |||||||
2 December 14:30:34 |
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NASA/NRO | Low Earth | Satellite deployment | 6 December 23:30:39 |
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NRO/CIA | Low Earth | Radar imaging | 25 March 1997 | Successful | ||
Crewed flight with five astronauts | |||||||
11 December 00:33 |
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UK Ministry of Defence | GTO | Communications | In orbit | Successful | ||
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SES Astra | GTO | Communications | In orbit | Successful |
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Deep-space rendezvous
There were no deep-space rendezvous in 1988.
References
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- Clark, Stephen. "Spaceflight Now".
- Kelso, T.S. "Satellite Catalog (SATCAT)". CelesTrak.[dead link]
- Krebs, Gunter. "Chronology of Space Launches".
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- McDowell, Jonathan. "GCAT Orbital Launch Log".
- 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.
- "NSSDCA Master Catalog". NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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- "Хроника освоения космоса" [Chronicle of space exploration]. CosmoWorld (in Russian).