1987 in spaceflight

1987 in spaceflight

The Atlas H launches on its final flight
Orbital launches
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
Soviet UnionSoyuz-U2 Soviet UnionBaikonur Site 1/5 Soviet Union
Soviet UnionSoyuz 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
United StatesTitan 34B/Agena-D United StatesVandenberg SLC-4W United StatesU.S. Air Force
United StatesSDS-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
United StatesDelta 3914 United StatesCape Canaveral LC-17A United States
United StatesGOES 7 NOAA Geostationary Weather In orbit Operational
20 March
23:05
United StatesDelta-3920 United StatesCape Canaveral LC-17 United States
IndonesiaPalapa B2-P PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara ? Communications In orbit Successful
31 March
00:16:16
Soviet UnionProton-K Soviet UnionBaikonur Site 200/39 Soviet Union
Soviet UnionKvant-1 1991—2001: Roskosmos Low Earth (Mir) Mir module 23 March 2001
05:59:36
Successful
Soviet UnionKvant FSB Low Earth (Kvant-1) Space tug 25 August 1988 Successful
15 May
17:30:01
Soviet UnionEnergia Soviet UnionBaikonur Site 250 Soviet Union
Soviet UnionPolyus 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 India RH-300 Mk II India Sriharikota India ISRO
India 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
Soviet UnionSoyuz-U2 Soviet UnionBaikonur Site 1/5 Soviet Union
Soviet UnionSoyuz 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
European UnionAriane 2 FranceKourou ELA-2 FranceArianespace
West GermanyTV-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
Soviet UnionSoyuz-U2 Soviet UnionBaikonur Site 1/5 Soviet Union
Soviet UnionSoyuz TM-4 Low Earth (Mir) Mir EO-3 17 June 1988
10:12:32
Successful
Manned flight with three cosmonauts
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Deep-space rendezvous

There were no deep-space rendezvous in 1987.

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