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Fact Sheet
Orbital Launches
First	10 January
Last	27 December
Total	102
Successes	101
Failures	1
Rockets
Maiden Flights	Ariane 4 44L; Delta 4925; Delta 5920; Delta II 6925; Titan IVA
Retirements	Ariane 2; Ariane 3; Atlas G; Delta 3920; Delta 5920; Titan 34D
Manned flights
Orbital	6
Total travellers	27
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[edit] Launches

Date/Time (UTC)	Rocket		Launch site		LSP
	Payload	Operator	Orbit	Function	Decay (UTC)	Outcome
	Remarks
[edit] January
10 January 02:05	Proton-K/DM-2		Baikonur Site 200/39
	Kosmos 1987 (GLONASS)		Medium Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 1988 (GLONASS)		Medium Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 1989 (Etalon-2)		Medium Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
12 January 11:29	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk Site 16/2
12 January 11:29	Kosmos 1990 (Resurs-F2)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	11 February	Successful
18 January 08:20	Soyuz-U		Baikonur
18 January 08:20	Kosmos 1991 (Zenit-8)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	1 February	Successful
26 January 09:16	Proton-K/DM-2		Baikonur Site 200/40
26 January 09:16	Gorizont 17		Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Successful
26 January 15:36	Kosmos-3M		Plesetsk Site 132/2
26 January 15:36	Kosmos 1992 (Strela-2M)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
27 January 01:23	Ariane 2		Kourou ELA-1		Arianespace
27 January 01:23	Intelsat 515	Intelsat	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Successful
28 January 12:30	Soyuz-U		Baikonur
28 January 12:30	Kosmos 1993 (Yantar-4K2)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	27 March	Successful
[edit] February
10 February 08:53	Soyuz-U2		Baikonur Site 1/5
10 February 08:53	Progress 40		Low Earth (Mir)	Logistics	5 March 01:59	Successful
10 February 15:13	Tsyklon-3		Plesetsk Site 32
	Kosmos 1994 (Strela-3)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 1995 (Strela-3)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 1996 (Strela-3)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 1997 (Strela-3)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 1998 (Strela-3)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 1999 (Strela-3)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
10 February 16:55	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk
10 February 16:55	Kosmos 2000 (Zenit-8)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	3 March	Successful
14 February 04:21	Molniya-M/2BL		Plesetsk
14 February 04:21	Kosmos 2001 (Oko)		Molniya	Early warning	In orbit	Successful
14 February 17:00	Kosmos-3M		Plesetsk Site 132/2
14 February 17:00	Kosmos 2002 (Taifun-2)		Low Earth	Radar calibration	15 October	Successful
14 February 18:30	Delta II 6925		Cape Canaveral LC-17A		McDonnell Douglas
	USA-35 (GPS II-1)	US Air Force	Medium Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
	Maiden flight of Delta II 6925 First flight of Block II GPS satellite
15 February 11:00	Molniya-M/ML		Baikonur
15 February 11:00	Molniya 1-75		Molniya	Communications	In orbit	Successful
17 February 14:59	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk
17 February 14:59	Kosmos 2003 (Zenit-8)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	3 March	Successful
21 February 23:30	Mu-3S-II		Uchinoura		ISAS
21 February 23:30	Akebono	ISAS	Low Earth	Aurora observation	In orbit	Operational
22 February 03:28	Kosmos-3M		Plesetsk Site 132/2
22 February 03:28	Kosmos 2004 (Parus)		Low Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
28 February 04:05	Tsyklon-3		Plesetsk Site 32
28 February 04:05	Meteor 2-18		Low Earth	Earth sciences	In orbit	Successful
[edit] March
2 March 18:59	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk
2 March 18:59	Kosmos 2005 (Yantar-4K2)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	25 April	Successful
6 March 23:29	Ariane 4 44LP		Kourou ELA-2		Arianespace
	JCSAT 1	JSAT	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Meteosat 4	EUMETSAT	Geosynchronous	Weather satellite	In orbit	Successful
13 March 14:57	Space Shuttle Discovery		Kennedy LC-39B
	STS-29	NASA	Low Earth	Satellite deployment	18 March 14:36	Successful
	TDRS-4 (TDRS-D)	NASA	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Operational
	Manned orbital flight with 5 astronauts
16 March 14:59	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk
16 March 14:59	Kosmos 2006 (Zenit-8)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	31 March	Successful
16 March 18:54	Soyuz-U2		Baikonur Site 1/5
16 March 18:54	Progress 41		Low Earth (Mir)	Logistics	25 April 12:12	Successful
23 March 12:25	Soyuz-U		Baikonur
23 March 12:25	Kosmos 2007 (Yantar-4KS1)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	22 September	Successful
24 March 13:38	Kosmos-3M		Plesetsk Site 132/2
	Kosmos 2008 (Strela-1M)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 2009 (Strela-1M)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 2010 (Strela-1M)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 2011 (Strela-1M)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 2012 (Strela-1M)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 2013 (Strela-1M)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 2014 (Strela-1M)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 2015 (Strela-1M)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
24 March 21:50	Delta 3920		Cape Canaveral LC-17B		McDonnell Douglas
	USA-36 (Delta Star)	US Air Force	Low Earth	Technology development	23 June 1992	Successful
	Final flight of Delta 3920
[edit] April
2 April 02:28	Ariane 2		Kourou ELA-1		Arianespace
	Tele-X	Nordic Satellite AB	Operational: Geosynchronous Current: Graveyard	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Final flight of Ariane 2 Tele-X retired 16 January 1998
4 April 18:36	Kosmos-3M		Plesetsk Site 132/2
4 April 18:36	Kosmos 2016 (Parus)		Low Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
6 April 14:00	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk
6 April 14:00	Kosmos 2017 (Zenit-8)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	19 April	Successful
14 April 04:08	Proton-K/DM-2		Baikonur Site 200/39
14 April 04:08	Raduga 23		Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Successful
20 April 18:29	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk
20 April 18:29	Kosmos 2018 (Yantar-4K2)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	19 June	Successful
26 April 17:00	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk Site 41/1
26 April 17:00	Foton 5		Low Earth	Microgravity research	11 May	Successful
[edit] May
4 May 18:47	Space Shuttle Atlantis		Kennedy LC-39B
	STS-30	NASA	Low Earth	Interstellar probe deployment	8 May 05:43	Successful
	Magellan	NASA	Cytherean	Radar mapping	12 October 1994	Successful
	Manned orbital flight with 5 astronauts
5 May 13:00	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk
5 May 13:00	Kosmos 2019 (Zenit-8)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	18 May	Successful
10 May 19:47	Titan 34D/Transtage		Cape Canaveral LC-40		Martin Marietta
10 May 19:47	USA-37 (Vortex 6)	NRO	Geosynchronous	SIGINT	In orbit	Successful
17 May 13:00	Soyuz-U		Baikonur
17 May 13:00	Kosmos 2020 (Yantar-4K2)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	15 July	Successful
24 May 10:30	Soyuz-U		Baikonur
24 May 10:30	Kosmos 2021 (Yantar-1KFT)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	6 July	Successful
25 May 08:50	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk Site 43/3
	Resurs-F1		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	17 June	Successful
	Pion 1		Low Earth	Atmospheric research	23 July	Successful
	Pion 2		Low Earth	Atmospheric research	24 July	Successful
31 May 08:31	Proton-K/DM-2		Baikonur Site 200/40
	Kosmos 2022 (GLONASS)		Medium Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 2023 (GLONASS)		Medium Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 2024 (Etalon 2)		Medium Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
[edit] June
1 June 12:59	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk
1 June 12:59	Kosmos 2025 (Zenit-8)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	15 June	Successful
5 June 22:37	Ariane 4 44L		Kourou ELA-2		Arianespace
	Superbird A	SCC	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	DFS-1		Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Maiden flight of Ariane 4 44L
7 June 05:12	Kosmos-3M		Plesetsk Site 132/2
7 June 05:12	Kosmos 2026 (Parus)		Low Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
8 June 17:09	Molniya-M/ML		Plesetsk
8 June 17:09	Molniya 3-45L		Molniya	Communications	14 December 2001	Successful
9 June 10:10	Tsyklon-3		Plesetsk Site 32/2
9 June 10:10	Okean-01		Intended: Low Earth		9 June	Launch failure
10 June 22:19	Delta II 6925		Cape Canaveral LC-17A		McDonnell Douglas
10 June 22:19	USA-38 (GPS II-2)	US Air Force	Medium Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
14 June 12:30	Kosmos-3M		Plesetsk Site 133/3
14 June 12:30	Kosmos 2027 (Taifun-1)		Low Earth	Radar calibration	14 April 1992	Successful
14 June 13:18	Titan IVA 402/IUS		Cape Canaveral LC-41		Martin Marietta
	USA-39 (DSP-14)	US Air Force	Geosynchronous	Early warning	In orbit	Operational
	Maiden flight of Titan IVA
16 June 09:30	Soyuz-U		Baikonur
16 June 09:30	Kosmos 2028 (Zenit-8)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	6 July	Successful
21 June 23:35	Proton-K/DM-2		Baikonur Site 200/39
21 June 23:35	Raduga 1-1		Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Successful
27 June 08:04	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk Site 16/2
27 June 08:04	Resurs-F2		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	11 July	Successful
[edit] July
4 July 15:21	Kosmos-3M		Plesetsk Site 133/3
4 July 15:21	Nadezhda 1		Low Earth	Maritime surveillance	In orbit	Successful
5 July 08:00	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk
5 July 08:00	Kosmos 2029 (Zenit-8)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	17 July	Successful
5 July 22:45	Proton-K/DM-2		Baikonur Site 200/40
5 July 22:45	Gorizont 18		Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Successful
12 July 00:14	Ariane 3		Kourou ELA-1		Arianespace
	Olympus 1	ESA	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Final flight of Ariane 3 and launch from ELA-1
12 July 15:00	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk
	Kosmos 2030 (Yantar-4K2)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	28 July	Spacecraft failure
	Spacecraft exploded in orbit on 28 July
18 July 09:44	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk Site 16/2
	Resurs-F3		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	8 August	Successful
	Pion 3		Low Earth	Atmospheric research	19 September	Successful
	Pion 4		Low Earth	Atmospheric research	19 September	Successful
18 July 12:10	Soyuz-U2		Baikonur Site 1/5
18 July 12:10	Kosmos 2031 (Ortlets-1)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	15 September	Successful
20 July 08:59	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk
20 July 08:59	Kosmos 2032 (Zenit-8)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	3 August	Successful
24 July 00:00	Tsyklon-2		Baikonur Site 90
24 July 00:00	Kosmos 2033 (US-P)		Low Earth	ELINT	6 January 1991	Successful
25 July 07:48	Kosmos-3M		Plesetsk Site 133/3
25 July 07:48	Kosmos 2034 (Parus)		Low Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
[edit] August
2 August 11:29	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk
2 August 11:29	Kosmos 2035 (Zenit-8)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	16 August	Successful
8 August 12:37	Space Shuttle Columbia		Kennedy LC-39B
	STS-28	NASA	Low Earth	Satellite deployment	13 August	Successful
	USA-40 (SDS-2-1)	US Air Force	Molniya	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	USA-41	DoD		SIGINT	In orbit	Successful
	Manned orbital flight with 5 astronauts
8 August 23:25	Ariane 4 44LP		Kourou ELA-2		Arianespace
	TV-Sat 2		Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Hipparcos	ESA	Geosynchronous transfer	Astronomy	In orbit	Successful
15 August 10:29	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk Site 43/4
15 August 10:29	Resurs-F4		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	14 September	Successful
18 August 05:57	Delta II 6925		Cape Canaveral LC-17A		McDonnell Douglas
18 August 05:57	USA-42 (GPS II-3)	US Air Force	Medium Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
22 August 12:59	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk
22 August 12:59	Kosmos 2036 (Zenit-8)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	5 September	Successful
23 August 03:09	Soyuz-U2		Baikonur Site 1/5
	Progress M-1		Low Earth (Mir)	Logistics	1 December 11:21	Successful
	Maiden flight of Progress-M spacecraft
27 August 22:59	Delta 4925		Cape Canaveral LC-17B		McDonnell Douglas
	Marco Polo 1	BSkyB	Operational: Geosynchronous Current: Graveyard	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Maiden flight of Delta 4925
28 August 00:14	Tsyklon-3		Plesetsk Site 32/2
28 August 00:14	Kosmos 2037 (Geo-IK)		Low Earth	Earth science	In orbit	Successful
[edit] September
4 September 05:54	Titan 34D/Transtage		Cape Canaveral LC-40		Martin Marietta
	USA-43 (DSCS-II)	DoD	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Operational
	USA-44 (DSCS-III)	DoD	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Operational
	Final flight of Titan 34D and Transtage upper stage
5 September 19:11	H-I		Tanegashima LA-N		Mitsubishi
5 September 19:11	GMS-4	NASDA	Geosynchronous	Weather satellite	In orbit	Successful
5 September 21:38	Soyuz-U2		Baikonur Site 1/5
	Soyuz TM-8		Low Earth (Mir)	Mir EO-5	19 February 1990 04:36	Successful
	Manned orbital flight with 2 cosmonauts
6 September 01:48	Titan II 23G		Vandenberg SLC-4W		Martin Marietta
6 September 01:48	USA-45	DoD		SIGINT	In orbit	Successful
6 September 10:49	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk Site 43/3
6 September 10:49	/Resurs-F5		Low Earth	Microgravity experiments	22 September	Successful
14 September 09:49	Tsyklon-3		Plesetsk Site 32
	Kosmos 2038 (Strela-3)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 2039 (Strela-3)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 2040 (Strela-3)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 2041 (Strela-3)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 2042 (Strela-3)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Kosmos 2043 (Strela-3)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
15 September 06:30	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk
15 September 06:30	//Kosmos 2044 (Bion 9)	ESA/NASA	Low Earth	Microgravity research	29 September	Successful
22 September 08:00	Soyuz-U		Baikonur
22 September 08:00	Kosmos 2045 (Zenit-8)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	2 October	Successful
25 September 08:56	Atlas G		Cape Canaveral LC-36B		Lockheed
	USA-46 (FLTSATCOM 8)	DoD	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	Final flight of Atlas G
27 September 14:38	Molniya-M/ML		Plesetsk
27 September 14:38	Molniya 1-76		Molniya	Communications	11 November 2000	Successful
27 September 16:20	Tsyklon-2		Baikonur Site 90
27 September 16:20	Kosmos 2046 (US-P)		Low Earth	Naval reconnaissance	16 April 1991	Successful
28 September 00:04	Tsyklon-3		Plesetsk Site 32/2
	Intercosmos 24		Low Earth	Atmospheric research	In orbit	Successful
	Magion 2		Low Earth	Atmospheric research	In orbit	Successful
28 September 17:05	Proton-K/DM-2		Baikonur Site 200/40
28 September 17:05	Gorizont 19		Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Successful
[edit] October
3 October 14:59	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk
3 October 14:59	Kosmos 2047 (Yantar-4K2)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	21 November	Successful
17 October 13:00	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk
17 October 13:00	Kosmos 2048 (Zenit-8)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	26 October	Successful
18 October 16:53	Space Shuttle Atlantis		Kennedy LC-39B
	STS-34	NASA	Low Earth	Interstellar probe deployment	23 October	Successful
	Galileo	NASA	Jovian	Jupiter orbiter	21 September 2003	Successful
	Galileo Probe	NASA	Jovian	Jupiter entry probe	7 December 1995	Successful
	Manned orbital flight with 5 astronauts
21 October 09:31	Delta II 6925		Cape Canaveral LC-17A		McDonnell Douglas
21 October 09:31	USA-47 (GPS II-4)	US Air Force	Medium Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
24 October 21:35	Tsyklon-3		Plesetsk Site 32
24 October 21:35	Meteor 3-3		Low Earth	Earth science	In orbit	Successful
27 October 23:05	Ariane 4 44L		Kourou ELA-2		Arianespace
27 October 23:05	Intelsat 602	Intelsat	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Successful
[edit] November
17 November 10:50	Soyuz-U		Baikonur
17 November 10:50	Kosmos 2049 (Yantar-4KS1)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	19 June 1990	Successful
18 November 14:34	Delta 5920		Vandenberg SLC-2W		McDonnell Douglas
	COBE	NASA	Sun-synchronous	Cosmology	In orbit	Successful
	Only flight of Delta 5920
23 November 00:23	Space Shuttle Discovery		Kennedy LC-39B
	STS-33	NASA	Low Earth	Satellite deployment	28 November	Successful
	USA-48 (Magnum-2)	NRO	Geosynchronous	ELINT	In orbit	Operational
	Manned orbital flight with 5 astronauts
23 November 20:35	Molniya-M/2BL		Plesetsk
23 November 20:35	Kosmos 2050 (Oko)		Molniya	Early warning	In orbit	Successful
24 November 23:22	Tsyklon-2		Baikonur Site 90
24 November 23:22	Kosmos 2051 (US-P)		Low Earth	Naval reconnaissance	21 January 1991	Successful
26 November 13:01	Proton-K		Baikonur Site 200/39
26 November 13:01	Kvant-2		Low Earth (Mir)	Mir component	23 March 2001 05:50	Successful
28 November 10:02	Molniya-M/ML		Plesetsk
28 November 10:02	Molniya 3-46L		Molniya	Communications	20 May 2000	Successful
30 November 15:00	Soyuz-U		Plesetsk
30 November 15:00	Kosmos 2052 (Yantar-4K2)		Low Earth	Reconnaissance	24 January 1990	Successful
[edit] December
1 December 20:20	Proton-K/D-1		Baikonur Site 200/40
1 December 20:20	/Granat	CNES	High Earth	Astronomy	25 May 1999	Successful
11 December 18:10	Delta II 6925		Cape Canaveral LC-17B		McDonnell Douglas
11 December 18:10	USA-49 (GPS II-5)	US Air Force	Medium Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
15 December 11:30	Proton-K/DM-2		Baikonur Site 81/23
15 December 11:30	Raduga 24		Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Successful
20 December 03:30	Soyuz-U2		Baikonur Site 1/5
20 December 03:30	Progress M-2		Low Earth (Mir)	Logistics	9 February 1990 07:56	Successful
27 December 00:00	Tsyklon-3		Plesetsk Site 32/2
27 December 00:00	Kosmos 2053 (Koltso 2)		Low Earth	Radar calibration	2 September 1997	Successful
27 December 11:10	Proton-K/DM-2		Baikonur Site 200/39
27 December 11:10	Kosmos 2054 (Luch 3)		Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Operational

[edit] Deep-space rendezvous

Date (GMT)	Spacecraft	Event	Remarks
23 January	Phobos 1	Flyby of Mars
29 January	Phobos 2	Areocentric orbit injection
27 March	Phobos 2	Enters synchronous orbit of Phobos
25 August	Voyager 2	Flyby of Neptune	Closest approach: 44,800 kilometres (27,800 mi)

[edit] References

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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.
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"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.
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Generic references:

Spaceflight portal

[edit] Footnotes

Contents

[edit] Launches

[edit] January

[edit] February

[edit] March

[edit] April

[edit] May

[edit] June

[edit] July

[edit] August

[edit] September

[edit] October

[edit] November

[edit] December

[edit] Deep-space rendezvous

[edit] References

[edit] Footnotes