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PSLV | IRS-P4 & Uribyol-3
Indian Space Research Organization | IndiaSatish Dhawan Space Centre, India
May 26, 1999, 6:22 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
IRS-P4 (Indian Remote Sensing Satellite) or Oceansat is the first indian satellite primarily built for Ocean applications. Kitsat (Korean Institute of Technology Satellite 3), renamed on orbit as Uribyol 3, was the first Korean satellite in true sense and was launched by an Indian PSLV-G (2) rocket in May 1999.
Polar Orbit
Titan 404B | NROL-9
Lockheed Martin | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 22, 1999, 9:36 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
This satellite is suspected to be a stealthy electro-optical reconnaissance satellite. The program name for developing an stealth IMINT capability is reportedly "Misty". Hobbyist satellite observers continue to track an object from that launch in a 2700 km × 3100 km, 63.4° orbit, but detailed orbital analysis reveals significant solar radiation pressure perturbations, from an area to mass ratio of about 0.1 m2/kg, 10 to 20 times that of a payload, and more akin to debris or a decoy, can be deduced. It appears to be no more than 5 to 10 m across, and only a few hundred kilograms in mass. If USA 144 is Misty-2, then it is likely to be in a 700 to 800 km, quasi 65° orbit. These orbits are low-drag, so orbit maintenance manoeuvres are not required.
Low Earth Orbit
Proton-K/DM-2M | Nimiq 1
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
May 20, 1999, 10:30 p.m.
Pegasus XL HAPS | MUBLCOM & TERRIERS
Orbital Sciences Corporation | United States of AmericaAir launch to orbit
May 18, 1999, 5:09 a.m.
Long March 4B | Feng Yun 1C
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaTaiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
May 10, 1999, 1:33 a.m.
Delta 8930 | Orion 3
Boeing | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
May 5, 1999, 1 a.m.
Titan IVB | Milstar 3
Lockheed Martin | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
April 30, 1999, 4:30 p.m.
Kosmos-3M | ABRIXAS & MegSat 0
Russian Space Forces | RussiaKapustin Yar, Russian Federation
April 28, 1999, 8:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The ABRIXAS (A Broadband Imaging X-Ray All-Sky Survey) small satellite (A BRoadband Imaging X-ray All-sky Survey Satellite) was designed to perform the first complete survey of the sky with an imaging telescope in the X-ray energy range from 0.5 to 10 keV. MegSat 0 was the first MegSat communications satellite.
Low Earth Orbit
Athena II | Ikonos 1
Lockheed Martin | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
April 27, 1999, 6:22 p.m.
Dnepr | UOSAT-OSCAR-36
ISC Kosmotras | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 21, 1999, 4:59 a.m.
