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Delta II | Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
United Launch Alliance | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 30, 1995, 1:48 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The XTE (X-Ray Timing Explorer), renamed on orbit RXTE (Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer) mission has the primary objective to study the temporal and broad-band spectral phenomena associated with stellar and galactic systems containing compact objects in the energy range 2--200 keV and in time scales from microseconds to years.
Low Earth Orbit
Long March 2E | Echostar I
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaXichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Dec. 28, 1995, 11:50 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
EchoStar 1 is an American geostationary communications spacecraft that was launched by a CZ-2E with EPKM upper stage rocket from Xichang Center in Sichuan province, PRC. The 3288 kg spacecraft carries 16 Ku-band transponders to enable direct broadcast communications and television channels through 0.5 meter dishes on the ground in the American continents.
Geostationary OrbitMolniya-M | IRS-1C & Skipper
Russian Space Forces | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 28, 1995, 6:45 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
IRS 1C and 1D (Indian Remote Sensing Satellite) were the second version of the series of indigenous state-of-art remote sensing satellites. Skipper was an international project initiated by BMDO to measure the bow-shock UV emissions from reentering bodies at different speeds and heights.
Low Earth Orbit
Tsiklon-2 | US-PM 7
Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | UkraineBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 20, 1995, 12:52 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
US-PM (Upravlenniye Sputnik Passivny Modifikirovanny) (also reported as US-PU) was a solar powered improved EORSAT (Electronic Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite). It used an passive ELINT devices to track naval vessels from space by registering their electronic emmissions.
Low Earth Orbit
Soyuz U | Progress M-30
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 18, 1995, 2:31 p.m.
Atlas IIA | Galaxy 3R
Lockheed Martin | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 15, 1995, 12:23 a.m.
Proton | Uragan 69 to 71
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 14, 1995, 6:10 a.m.
Ariane 44L | Telecom 2C & Insat 2C
Aérospatiale | FranceGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Dec. 6, 1995, 11:23 p.m.
Titan 404A | KH-11 11
Lockheed Martin | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 5, 1995, 9:18 p.m.
Atlas IIAS | SOHO
Lockheed Martin | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 2, 1995, 8:08 a.m.
