1987 in spaceflight

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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
Crewed flights
Orbital| 3
Total travellers| 8

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## Launches

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Date and time (UTC)  | Rocket | Flight number  | Launch site | LSP

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(⚀ = 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
Crewed flight launching two cosmonauts and landing three, first crewed 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 |
GOES 7 | NOAA | Geostationary | Weather | In orbit | Operational
20 March
23:05  | Delta-3920 |  | Cape Canaveral LC-17 |
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
Crewed flight with three cosmonauts, first Syrian in space, carried replacement for ill EO-2 crewmember
24 August
16:30  | Skylark 7 |  | Woomera Test Range LA2 D  | MORABA
Supernova (W-GR-147)  | DFVLR | Suborbital  | X-ray astronomy | 24 August | Successful
Apogee: ~270 km
8 October |  Sonda IV |  |  Barreira do Inferno Launch Center |  IAE
| IAE | Suborbital  | Engineering test | 8 October | Successful
"Operation Petrópolis". R&D launch for the VLS program. 510 kg payload. 570 km apogee.[2]
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
Crewed flight with three cosmonauts

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## Deep-space rendezvous

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There were no deep-space rendezvous in 1987.

## References

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* Bergin, Chris. "NASASpaceFlight.com".
* Clark, Stephen. "Spaceflight Now".
* Kelso, T.S. "Satellite Catalog (SATCAT)". CelesTrak.[dead link‍]
* Krebs, Gunter. "Chronology of Space Launches".
* Kyle, Ed. "Space Launch Report". Archived from the original on 5 October 2009. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
* 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.
* "Space Calendar". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[dead link‍]
* "Space Information Center". JAXA.[dead link‍]
* "Хроника освоения космоса" [Chronicle of space exploration]. CosmoWorld (in Russian).

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### Footnotes

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1. ^ "NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive". Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
2. ^ "Lançamento do foguete Sonda IV foi um sucesso". O Pioneiro (in Brazilian Portuguese). No. 528\. 9 October 1987. p. 5. Retrieved 18 February 2024.

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1980s|

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* 1987
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← 1986

Orbital launches in 1987

1988 →

January|

* Meteor-2 No.17
* Kosmos 1811
* Kosmos 1812
* Kosmos 1813
* Progress 27
* Kosmos 1814
* Kosmos 1815
* Molniya-3 No.42
* Kosmos 1816
* Kosmos 1817

February|

* Kosmos 1818
* Ginga
* Soyuz TM-2
* Kosmos 1819
* USA-21
* Kosmos 1820
* Kosmos 1821
* Momo 1
* Kosmos 1822
* Kosmos 1823
* Kosmos 1824
* GOES 7

March|

* Progress 28
* Kosmos 1825
* Kosmos 1826
* Kosmos 1827, Kosmos 1828, Kosmos 1829, Kosmos 1830, Kosmos 1831, Kosmos 1832
* Kosmos 1833
* Gran' No.31L
* Palapa B2P
* SROSS-A
* FLTSATCOM-6
* Kvant-1

April|

* Kosmos 1834
* Kosmos 1835
* Kosmos 1836
* Progress 29
* Kosmos 1837
* Kosmos 1838, Kosmos 1839, Kosmos 1840
* Kosmos 1841
* Kosmos 1842

May|

* Kosmos 1843
* Gorizont No.23L
* Kosmos 1844
* Kosmos 1845
* USA-22, LIPS-3, USA-23, USA-24, USA-25
* Polyus
* Progress 30
* Kosmos 1846
* Kosmos 1847
* Kosmos 1848

June|

* Kosmos 1849
* Kosmos 1850
* Kosmos 1851
* Kosmos 1852, Kosmos 1853, Kosmos 1854, Kosmos 1855, Kosmos 1856, Kosmos 1857, Kosmos 1858, Kosmos 1859
* Resurs-F1 No.105
* Kosmos 1860
* USA-26
* Kosmos 1861

July|

* Kosmos 1862
* Kosmos 1863
* Kosmos 1864
* Kosmos 1865
* Kosmos 1866
* Kosmos 1867
* Kosmos 1868
* Kosmos 1869
* Soyuz TM-3
* Kosmos 1870

August|

* Kosmos 1871
* Progress 31
* Fanhui Shi Weixing 10
* Meteor-2 No.21
* Kosmos 1872
* Kiku No.5
* Kosmos 1873

September|

* Kosmos 1874
* Ekran No.29L
* Kosmos 1875, Kosmos 1876, Kosmos 1877, Kosmos 1878, Kosmos 1879, Kosmos 1880
* Fanhui Shi Weixing I-01
* Kosmos 1881
* Kosmos 1882
* Aussat A3, ECS-4
* Kosmos 1883, Kosmos 1884, Kosmos 1885
* Transit-O 27, Transit-O 29
* Kosmos 1886
* Progress 32
* Kosmos 1887

October|

* Kosmos 1888
* Kosmos 1889
* Kosmos 1890
* Kosmos 1891
* Kosmos 1892
* Kosmos 1893
* USA-27
* Kosmos 1894

November|

* Kosmos 1895
* Kosmos 1896
* Progress 33
* TV-SAT 1
* Kosmos 1897
* USA-28

December|

* Kosmos 1898
* Kosmos 1899
* Gran' No.32L
* Kosmos 1900
* Kosmos 1901
* Kosmos 1902
* Soyuz TM-4
* Kosmos 1903
* Kosmos 1904
* Kosmos 1905
* Kosmos 1906
* Ekran-M No.13L
* Kosmos 1907

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