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[edit] Launches

This is a list of spaceflights launched in 1970.

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Launch Date/Time	Rocket	Launch Site	Launch Contractor	Payload	Operator	Orbit	Mission/ Function	Re-Entry/ Destruction	Outcome	Remarks
February 11 GMT	Lambda-4S	Kagoshima	Japan	Ōsumi	Tokyo univ.	LEO	Technology	August 2, 2003	Successful	First satellite launched by Japan
March 3 21:15 GMT	Black Arrow	Woomera	RAE	(none)	N/A	N/A	Test LV	N/A	Successful
April 11 19:13 GMT	Saturn V (C-5)	LC-39A, Kennedy	NASA	Apollo 13 CSM Odyssey	NASA	Intended: Lunar orbit Actual: Lunar free return	Manned Lunar orbit.	April 15, 1970	Failure	Explosion in Service Module crippled spacecraft, resulting in mission abort.
April 11 19:13 GMT	Saturn V (C-5)	LC-39A, Kennedy	NASA	Apollo 13 LM Aquarius	NASA	Intended: Lunar landing Actual: Lunar free return	Manned lunar landing	April 15, 1970	Failure	Mission aborted due to CSM malfunction. LM used to help bring crew back to Earth.
April 24	Long March 1 Rocket	North West Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center	PRC	Dong Fang Hong I	PRC	LEO	Test satellite	Unknown	Successful	First satellite launched by China
June 1 19:00 GMT	Soyuz (R-7/A-2)	LC-1/5, Baikonur	RVSN	Soyuz 9 2 Cosmonauts	RVSN	LEO	Manned Orbital Spaceflight	June 19, 1970 11:58 GMT	Successful	Longest Manned flight involving only one spacecraft. (As of 09/06/06)
June 1 19:00 GMT	Black Arrow	Woomera	RAE	Orba	RAE	LEO	Micrometeoroid detection satellite	June 19, 1970 11:58 GMT	Failure	First British attempt to launch a satellite. Failed to reach orbit after premature 2nd stage cutout.
December 12 10:54 GMT	Scout B	San Marco mobile range, Kenya	CRA	Uhuru	NASA	LEO	X-ray astronomy	Still in orbit	Successful	First satellite dedicated to X-ray astronomy.

[edit] Deep Space Rendez-vous in 1970

April 15 — Apollo 13 lunar flyby at 254 km (sample return mission)
September 20 — Luna 16, 100g from Mare Fecunditatis (sample return mission)
October 24 — Zond 8 circumlunar flight of the Moon (1,110 km)
November 17 — Luna 17 delivered Lunokhod 1 at Mare Imbrium
December 15 — Venera 7 atmospheric probe worked for 23 min on the Venerian surface

[edit] References

Kyle, Ed. "Space Launch Repot". http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/.
Wade, Mark. "Encyclopedia Astronautica". http://www.astronautix.com.
Krebs, Gunter. "Chronology of Space Launches". Gunter's Space Page. http://space.skyrocket.de/index_frame.htm?http://space.skyrocket.de/chrono.htm.
"Space Information Center". JAXA. http://spaceinfo.jaxa.jp.
McDowell, Jonathan. "Jonathan's Space Report". Jonathan's Space Page. http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.
"Mission Set Database". NASA GSFC. http://msdb.gsfc.nasa.gov/launches.php.
"NASASpaceFlight.com". http://www.nasaspaceflight.com.
"Launch Logs". Orbital Report News Agency. http://www.orbireport.com/Log.html.
"Space Calendar". NASA JPL. http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/.
"Southwest Space Archive". http://www.spacearchive.info/index.htm.
"Launch Forecast". SPACE.com. http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/launch_schedule.html.
"Spaceflight Now". http://www.spaceflightnow.com.
Pietrobon, Steven. "Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive". http://www.sworld.com.au/steven/space/.
"U.S. Space Objects Registry". http://www.usspaceobjectsregistry.state.gov/.
"Хроника освоения космоса" (in Russian). http://www.cosmoworld.ru/spaceencyclopedia/chrono/index.shtml.

Generic references:

Spaceflight portal

Preceded by 1969	Timeline of spaceflight 1970	Succeeded by 1971