Previous Spaceflight Launches
Filter by Agency, Locations or Vehicles
Show All Launches
Tsiklon-3 | Tselina-D 69
Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | UkrainePlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
May 25, 1994, 10:15 a.m.
Soyuz U | Progress M-23
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
May 22, 1994, 4:30 a.m.
Proton | Rimsat G2
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
May 20, 1994, 2:01 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The geostationary Gorizont satellites are part of the Russian YeSSS Unified Satellite Communication System. These satellites provided civilian and military telephone, telegraph, and facsimile communications services, in addition to relaying TV and radio broadcasts. Gorizont also supported maritime and international communications from 1988 as an element of the Okean system operating at 1.5 to 1.6 GHz. The Gorizont system occupies 10 position on the geostationary orbit.
Geostationary Orbit
Pegasus HAPS | Space Test Experiments Platform 2 (STEP-2)
Orbital Sciences Corporation | United States of AmericaAir launch to orbit
May 19, 1994, 5:03 p.m.
Scout G-1 | MSTI-2
Vought | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 9, 1994, 2:47 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
MSTI 2 (Miniature Sensor Technology Integration 2) was a US Department of Defense spacecraft launched from the Vandenberg AFB by a Scout-G1 rocket. It was the last of the now discontinued Scout series. The primary mission of MSTI 2 was to demonstrate theater ballistic missile (TBM) tracking and was intended to last for six months. It successfully spotted and locked onto a test Minuteman-3 launched from Vandenberg AFB. More than three million short wavelength infrared (SWIR) and medium wavelength infrared (MWIR) image frames were obtained during the mission.
Low Earth Orbit
ASLV | SROSS-C2
Indian Space Research Organization | IndiaSatish Dhawan Space Centre, India
May 4, 1994, midnight
Titan 401A Centaur | Trumpet 1
Lockheed Martin | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
May 3, 1994, 3:55 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Trumpet signal intelligence satellites were launched by Titan-4(01)A Centaur-T into highly elliptic Molniya-type orbits. In their elliptical orbits they would move very slowly over the northern hemisphere for most of their orbital period, allowing interception of microwave line-of-sight communications beams. Since they would move slowly through the beams during their orbit, a constellation of such satellites was required to monitor Soviet communications throughout the day.
Elliptical OrbitSoyuz U | Yantar-4KS1M 5
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 28, 1994, 5:14 p.m.
Kosmos-3M | Parus 82
Russian Space Forces | RussiaPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
April 26, 1994, 2:14 a.m.
Zenit-2 | Tselina-2 15
Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | UkraineBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 23, 1994, 8:01 a.m.
