The following is an outline of 1989 in spaceflight.

1989 in spaceflight
The Galileo probe is deployed from Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-34, beginning a fourteen-year mission to Jupiter
Orbital launches
First10 January
Last27 December
Total102
Successes101
Failures1
Rockets
Maiden flightsAriane 4 44L
Delta 4925
Delta 5920
Delta II 6925
Titan IVA
RetirementsAriane 2
Ariane 3
Atlas G
Delta 3920
Delta 5920
Titan 34D
Crewed flights
Orbital6
Total travellers27
The launch of the only Delta 5920 with the Cosmic Background Explorer.

Launches edit

Date and time (UTC) Rocket Flight number Launch site LSP
Payload
(⚀ = CubeSat)
Operator Orbit Function Decay (UTC) Outcome
Remarks

January edit

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  
 Kosmos 1990 (Resurs-F2) Low Earth Reconnaissance 11 February Successful
18 January
08:20
 Soyuz-U  Baikonur  
 Kosmos 1991 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 1 February Successful
26 January
09:16
 Proton-K/DM-2  Baikonur Site 200/40  
 Gorizont 17 Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful
26 January
15:36
 Kosmos-3M  Plesetsk Site 132/2  
 Kosmos 1992 (Strela-2M) Low Earth Communications In orbit Successful
27 January
01:23
 Ariane 2  Kourou ELA-1  Arianespace
 Intelsat 515 Intelsat Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful
28 January
12:30
 Soyuz-U  Baikonur  
 Kosmos 1993 (Yantar-4K2) Low Earth Reconnaissance 27 March Successful

February edit

10 February
08:53
 Soyuz-U2  Baikonur Site 1/5  
 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  
 Kosmos 2000 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 3 March Successful
14 February
04:21
 Molniya-M/2BL  Plesetsk  
 Kosmos 2001 (Oko) Molniya Early warning In orbit Successful
14 February
17:00
 Kosmos-3M  Plesetsk Site 132/2  
 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  
 Molniya 1-75 Molniya Communications In orbit Successful
17 February
14:59
 Soyuz-U  Plesetsk  
 Kosmos 2003 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 3 March Successful
21 February
23:30
 Mu-3S-II  Uchinoura  ISAS
 EXOS-D Akebono ISAS Low Earth Aurora observation In orbit Successful
22 February
03:28
 Kosmos-3M  Plesetsk Site 132/2  
 Kosmos 2004 (Parus) Low Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
28 February
04:05
 Tsyklon-3  Plesetsk Site 32  
 Meteor 2-18 Low Earth Earth sciences In orbit Successful

March edit

2 March
18:59
 Soyuz-U  Plesetsk  
 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
Crewed orbital flight with 5 astronauts
16 March
14:59
 Soyuz-U  Plesetsk  
 Kosmos 2006 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 31 March Successful
16 March
18:54
 Soyuz-U2  Baikonur Site 1/5  
 Progress 41 Low Earth (Mir) Logistics 25 April
12:12
Successful
23 March
12:25
 Soyuz-U  Baikonur  
 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

April edit

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  
 Kosmos 2016 (Parus) Low Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
6 April
14:00
 Soyuz-U  Plesetsk  
 Kosmos 2017 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 19 April Successful
14 April
04:08
 Proton-K/DM-2  Baikonur Site 200/39  
 Raduga 23 Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful
20 April
18:29
 Soyuz-U  Plesetsk  
 Kosmos 2018 (Yantar-4K2) Low Earth Reconnaissance 19 June Successful
26 April
17:00
 Soyuz-U  Plesetsk Site 41/1  
 Foton 5 Low Earth Microgravity research 11 May Successful

May edit

4 May
18:47
 Space Shuttle Atlantis  Kennedy LC-39B  
 STS-30 NASA Low Earth Interplanetary probe deployment 8 May
05:43
Successful
 Magellan NASA Cytherean Radar mapping 12 October 1994 Successful
Crewed orbital flight with 5 astronauts
5 May
13:00
 Soyuz-U  Plesetsk  
 Kosmos 2019 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 18 May Successful
10 May
19:47
 Titan 34D/Transtage  Cape Canaveral LC-40  Martin Marietta
 USA-37 (Vortex 6) NRO Geosynchronous SIGINT In orbit Successful
17 May
13:00
 Soyuz-U  Baikonur  
 Kosmos 2020 (Yantar-4K2) Low Earth Reconnaissance 15 July Successful
24 May
10:30
 Soyuz-U  Baikonur  
 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

June edit

1 June
12:59
 Soyuz-U  Plesetsk  
 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  
 Kosmos 2026 (Parus) Low Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
8 June
17:09
 Molniya-M/ML  Plesetsk  
 Molniya 3-45L Molniya Communications 14 December 2001 Successful
9 June
10:10
 Tsyklon-3  Plesetsk Site 32/2  
 Okean-01 Intended: Low Earth 9 June Launch failure
10 June
22:19
 Delta II 6925  Cape Canaveral LC-17A  McDonnell Douglas
 USA-38 (GPS II-2) US Air Force Medium Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
14 June
12:30
 Kosmos-3M  Plesetsk Site 133/3  
 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  
 Kosmos 2028 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 6 July Successful
21 June
23:35
 Proton-K/DM-2  Baikonur Site 200/39  
 Raduga 1-1 Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful
27 June
08:04
 Soyuz-U  Plesetsk Site 16/2  
 Resurs-F2 Low Earth Reconnaissance 11 July Successful

July edit

4 July
15:21
 Kosmos-3M  Plesetsk Site 133/3  
 Nadezhda 1 Low Earth Maritime surveillance In orbit Successful
5 July
08:00
 Soyuz-U  Plesetsk  
 Kosmos 2029 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 17 July Successful
5 July
22:45
 Proton-K/DM-2  Baikonur Site 200/40  
 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  
 Kosmos 2031 (Ortlets-1) Low Earth Reconnaissance 15 September Successful
20 July
08:59
 Soyuz-U  Plesetsk  
 Kosmos 2032 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance 3 August Successful
24 July
00:00
 Tsyklon-2  Baikonur Site 90  
 Kosmos 2033 (US-P) Low Earth ELINT 6 January 1991 Successful
25 July
07:48
 Kosmos-3M  Plesetsk Site 133/3  
 Kosmos 2034 (Parus) Low Earth Navigation In orbit Successful

August edit

2 August
11:29
 Soyuz-U  Plesetsk  
 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
Crewed 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  
 Resurs-F4 Low Earth Reconnaissance 14 September Successful
18 August
05:57
 Delta II 6925  Cape Canaveral LC-17A  McDonnell Douglas
 USA-42 (GPS II-3) US Air Force Medium Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
22 August
12:59
 Soyuz-U  Plesetsk  
 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  
 Kosmos 2037 (Geo-IK) Low Earth Earth science In orbit Successful

September edit

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
 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
Crewed orbital flight with 2 cosmonauts
6 September
01:48
 Titan II 23G  Vandenberg SLC-4W  Martin Marietta
 USA-45 DoD SIGINT In orbit Successful
6 September
10:49
 Soyuz-U  Plesetsk Site 43/3  
 / 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  
 / / Kosmos 2044 (Bion 9) ESA/NASA Low Earth Microgravity research 29 September Successful
22 September
08:00
 Soyuz-U  Baikonur  
 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  
 Molniya 1-76 Molniya Communications 11 November 2000 Successful
27 September
16:20
 Tsyklon-2  Baikonur Site 90  
 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  
 Gorizont 19 Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful

October edit

3 October
14:59
 Soyuz-U  Plesetsk  
 Kosmos 2047 (Yantar-4K2) Low Earth Reconnaissance 21 November Successful
17 October
13:00
 Soyuz-U  Plesetsk  
 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 Interplanetary 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
Crewed orbital flight with 5 astronauts
21 October
09:31
 Delta II 6925  Cape Canaveral LC-17A  McDonnell Douglas
 USA-47 (GPS II-4) US Air Force Medium Earth Navigation In orbit Successful
24 October
21:35
 Tsyklon-3  Plesetsk Site 32  
 Meteor 3-3 Low Earth Earth science In orbit Successful
27 October
23:05
 Ariane 4 44L  Kourou ELA-2  Arianespace
 Intelsat 602 Intelsat Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful

November edit

17 November
10:50
 Soyuz-U  Baikonur  
 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
Crewed orbital flight with 5 astronauts
23 November
20:35
 Molniya-M/2BL  Plesetsk  
 Kosmos 2050 (Oko) Molniya Early warning In orbit Successful
24 November
23:22
 Tsyklon-2  Baikonur Site 90  
 Kosmos 2051 (US-P) Low Earth Naval reconnaissance 21 January 1991 Successful
26 November
13:01
 Proton-K  Baikonur Site 200/39  
 Kvant-2 Low Earth (Mir) Mir component 23 March 2001
05:50
Successful
28 November
10:02
 Molniya-M/ML  Plesetsk  
 Molniya 3-46L Molniya Communications 20 May 2000 Successful
30 November
15:00
 Soyuz-U  Plesetsk  
 Kosmos 2052 (Yantar-4K2) Low Earth Reconnaissance 24 January 1990 Successful

December edit

1 December
20:20
 Proton-K/D-1  Baikonur Site 200/40  
 / Granat CNES High Earth Astronomy 25 May 1999 Successful
11 December
18:10
 Delta II 6925  Cape Canaveral LC-17B  McDonnell Douglas
 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  
 Raduga 24 Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Successful
20 December
03:30
 Soyuz-U2  Baikonur Site 1/5  
 Progress M-2 Low Earth (Mir) Logistics 9 February 1990
07:56
Successful
27 December
00:00
 Tsyklon-3  Plesetsk Site 32/2  
 Kosmos 2053 (Koltso 2) Low Earth Radar calibration 2 September 1997 Successful
27 December
11:10
 Proton-K/DM-2  Baikonur Site 200/39  
 Kosmos 2054 (Luch) Geosynchronous Communications In orbit Operational

Deep-space rendezvous edit

Date (GMT) Spacecraft Event Remarks
23 January Phobos 1 Flyby of Mars Failed orbiter mission
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)

References edit

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Generic references:
  Spaceflight portal

Footnotes edit