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Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-37

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 5, 1991, 2:22 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

STS-37 was the eighth flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis with the primary obective of launching the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. The mission featured two spacewalks, the first since 1985.

Low Earth Orbit
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Ariane 44P | Anik E2

Aérospatiale | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
April 4, 1991, 11:33 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Anik E's provide North America-wide communications in both the C-band (6/4 GHz) and higher power Ku-band (14/12 GHz), and each satellite carries the equivalent of 56 analog television channels.

Geostationary Orbit
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Proton | Uragan 42 to 44

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 4, 1991, 10:47 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

GLONASS navigation satellites

Medium Earth Orbit
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Proton | Almaz-1

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 31, 1991, 3:12 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Radar imagery satellite based on the Almaz space station design

Low Earth Orbit
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Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 58

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 26, 1991, 1:45 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Film-return reconnaissance satellite

Low Earth Orbit
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Molniya-M | Molniya-3 55L

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 22, 1991, 12:19 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Molniya communication satellites operating from a highly elliptical orbit

Elliptical Orbit
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Kosmos-3M | Taifun-1B 11

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 19, 1991, 2:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Passive radar calibration satellite

Low Earth Orbit
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Soyuz-U2 | Progress M-7

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 19, 1991, 1:05 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Unknown Mission

There are no mission or payload details available for this launch.

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Kosmos-3M | Nadezhda 6

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 12, 1991, 7:29 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Civilian navigation satellite equivalent to the purely military Parus

Low Earth Orbit
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Delta 6925 | INMARSAT II F-2

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
March 8, 1991, 11:03 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Commercial communications satellite covering the west Atlantic.

Geostationary Orbit
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