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Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51-D

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 12, 1985, 1:59 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

STS-51-D was the sixteenth flight of the shuttle and fourth for the Space Shuttle Discovery. Its mission was to deploy a number of 10 satellites. The landing suffered extensive brake damaged and a ruptured tire. All subsequent landings had to be done at the Edwards Air Force Base until the development and implementation of nose steering.

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Soyuz U | Zenit-8 13

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 3, 1985, 8:40 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Film-return reconnaissance satellite

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Soyuz U | Yantar-4KS1 3

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 25, 1985, 10 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

First generation electro-optical reconnaissance satellite

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Atlas G Centaur | Intelsat 510

Convair | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
March 22, 1985, 11:55 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Geostationary communications satellite

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Proton-K/DM | Ekran

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 22, 1985, 5 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Ekran was a Soviet series of geostationary satellites which were the first in the world to provide Direct-To-Home TV service.

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Kosmos-3M | Strela-1M 289-296

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 21, 1985, 12:08 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Military communications satellites

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Kosmos-3M | Parus 49

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 14, 1985, 1:09 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

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Atlas E/OIS | Geosat 1

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
March 13, 1985, 2 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Oceanographic radar altimetry satellite designed to obtain mapping of the Earth's geoid

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Tsiklon-3 | Tselina-D 48

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | Ukraine
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 5, 1985, 3:39 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Tselina-D satellites provided detailed observation of radio sources detected by the smaller Tselina-O satellites as part of the Tselina ELINT system.

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Soyuz U | Zenit-8 12

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 1, 1985, 10:40 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Film-return reconnaissance satellite

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