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Kosmos-3M | Parus 80

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
April 1, 1993, 6:57 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Navigation satellite providing location information for the Tsiklon-B navigation system

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Soyuz-U2 | Progress M-17

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 31, 1993, 3:34 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Unknown Mission

There are no mission or payload details available for this launch.

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Tsiklon-2 | US-PM 1

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | Ukraine
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 30, 1993, noon
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

US-PM (Upravlenniye Sputnik Passivny Modifikirovanny) (also reported as US-PU) was a solar powered improved EORSAT (Electronic Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite). It used an passive ELINT devices to track naval vessels from space by registering their electronic emmissions.

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Delta II | GPS IIA-10

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
March 30, 1993, 3:09 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

GPS-2A (Global Positioning System) or Navstar-2A (Navigation System using Timing And ranging) are improved satellites of the second generation of the GPS navigation system.

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Zenit-2 | Tselina-2 13

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | Ukraine
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 26, 1993, 2:21 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Second generation ELING satellite

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Atlas I | UHF F/O F1

General Dynamics | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
March 25, 1993, 9:38 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The U.S. Navy began replacing and upgrading its ultra-high frequency (UHF) satellite communications network during the 1990s with a constellation of customized satellites built by Hughes Space and Communications Company. Known as the UFO (Ultra High Frequency Follow On) series, these HS-601 model satellites support the Navy's global communications network, serving ships at sea and a variety of other U.S. military fixed and mobile terminals.

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Start-1 | EKA-1

Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 25, 1993, 1:15 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

EKA 1 and 2 were vehicle evaluation payloads on the maiden flights of the Start-1 and Start launch vehicles.

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Proton | Raduga 29

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 25, 1993, 2:28 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Geostationary communications satellite for military and governmental puposes

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Soyuz-U2 | Progress M-16

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Feb. 21, 1993, 6:32 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Unknown Mission

There are no mission or payload details available for this launch.

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Mu-3S-II | Asuka

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science | Japan
Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
Feb. 20, 1993, 2:20 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The objective of the ASCA (Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astronomy) (or Astro D) mission was to perform spectroscopic X-Ray astronomy in the wavelength band 1--12 keV. with particular emphasis on spectroscopy of the iron K band.

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