1987 in spaceflight

none October 2019 June 2019 yes yes 1987 Atlas-H.jpg The Atlas H launches on its final flight 180 5 January 29 December 115 110 ASLVEnergia Atlas HN-IITitan III(34)B 1980 3 8 Timeline of spaceflight 1986 1988 The following is an outline of 1987 in spaceflight. right on Launches 1987 1 5 February 21:38:16 USSRSoyuz-U2 USSRBaikonur Site 1/5 USSR Crewed flight launching two cosmonauts and landing three, first crewed flight of Soyuz-TM USSRSoyuz TM-2 Mir EO-2 Low Earth (Mir) 30 July 01:04:12 Successful 1 12 February 06:40 USATitan 34B/Agena-D USAVandenberg SLC-4W USAU.S. Air Force Final flight of the Titan IIIB rocket. Final use of the RM-81 Agena upper stage in any rocket. USASDS-1 F-6https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1987-015A NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive 21 August 2019 29 September 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200929151808/https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1987-015A live U.S. Air Force Communications Molniya Successful 1 26 February 23:05 USADelta 3914 USACape Canaveral LC-17A USA USAGOES 7 NOAA Weather Geostationary Successful 1 20 March 23:05 USADelta-3920 USACape Canaveral LC-17 USA INAPalapa B2-P PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara Communications ? Successful 2 31 March 00:16:16 USSRProton-K USSRBaikonur Site 200/39 USSR USSRKvant-1 1991–2001: Roskosmos Mir module Low Earth (Mir) 23 March 2001 05:59:36 Successful USSRKvant FSB Space tug Low Earth (Kvant-1) 25 August 1988 Successful 1 15 May 17:30:01 USSREnergia USSRBaikonur Site 250 USSR Maiden flight of Energia, computer error resulted in spacecraft attempting to perform circularisation burn in a retrograde orientation, failed to orbit USSRPolyus Weapons testsTechnology Intended: Low Earth 15 May Launch failure 1 8 June India RH-300 Mk II India Sriharikota India ISRO First flight of the RH-300 Mk II, reached an altitude of 130 km (80 miles) India ISRO Engineering test Suborbital 8 June Successful 1 22 July 01:59:17 USSRSoyuz-U2 USSRBaikonur Site 1/5 USSR Crewed flight with three cosmonauts, first Syrian in space, carried replacement for ill EO-2 crewmember USSRSoyuz TM-3 Mir EP-1 Low Earth (Mir) 29 December 09:16:15 Successful 1 24 August 16:30 UKSkylark 7 AUSWoomera Test Range LA2 D FRGMORABA Apogee: ~270 km FRG Supernova (W-GR-147) DFVLR Suborbital X-ray astronomy 24 August Successful 1 8 October Brazil Sonda IV Brazil Barreira do Inferno Launch Center Brazil IAE "Operation Petrópolis". R&D launch for the VLS program. 510 kg payload. 570 km apogee.https://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=885959&pesq=%22Ve%C3%ADculo%20Lan%C3%A7ador%20de%20Sat%C3%A9lites%22&pasta=ano%20198&pagfis=106998 Lançamento do foguete Sonda IV foi um sucesso 1987-10-09 2024-02-18 O Pioneiro 528 5 pt-br Brazil IAE Engineering test Suborbital 8 October Successful 1 21 November 02:19:00 FRAAriane 2 FRAKourou ELA-2 FRAArianespace 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. West GermanyTV-SAT 1 Deutsche Bundespost Communications Current: GraveyardOperational: Geosynchronous Spacecraft failure 1 21 December 11:18:03 USSRSoyuz-U2 USSRBaikonur Site 1/5 USSR Crewed flight with three cosmonauts USSRSoyuz TM-4 Mir EO-3 Low Earth (Mir) 17 June 1988 10:12:32 Successful |} February 2011 Deep-space rendezvous There were no deep-space rendezvous in 1987. References Footnotes 30em 1987 on expanded Category:Spaceflight by year