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Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-29

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
March 13, 1989, 2:57 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

STS-29 was the eighth flight of Discovery and its primary mission was to deploy the TDRS-D 10 satellite. It also deployed eight secondary payloads.

Low Earth Orbit
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Ariane 44LP | JCSAT 1 & Meteosat 4

Aérospatiale | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
March 6, 1989, 11:29 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Geostationary communications and meteorology satellites

Geostationary Orbit
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Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 44

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 2, 1989, 6:59 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Film-return reconnaissance satellite

Low Earth Orbit
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Tsiklon-3 | Meteor-2 18

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | Ukraine
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Feb. 28, 1989, 4:05 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Second generation soviet meteorological satellite

Low Earth Orbit
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Kosmos-3M | Parus 64

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Feb. 22, 1989, 3:28 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

Low Earth Orbit
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Mu-3S-II | Akebono

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science | Japan
Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
Feb. 21, 1989, 11:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Japanese upper atmosphere research satellite

Elliptical Orbit
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Soyuz U | Zenit-8 77

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Feb. 17, 1989, 2:59 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Film-return reconnaissance satellite

Low Earth Orbit
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Molniya-M | Molniya-1T 75

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Feb. 15, 1989, 11 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Military communications satellite in a highly elliptic orbit

Elliptical Orbit
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Delta 6925 | GPS-2 1

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Feb. 14, 1989, 6:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Second generation GPS navigation satellite

Medium Earth Orbit
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Kosmos-3M | Duga-K 1

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Feb. 14, 1989, 5 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Experimental radar calibration satellite

Elliptical Orbit
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