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Tsiklon-3 | Strela-3 7 to 12

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | Ukraine
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Oct. 9, 1985, 9:35 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Second generation store-dump military communications satellite

Low Earth Orbit
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Atlas E/SGS-2 | GPS 11

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 9, 1985, 2:53 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

First generation GPS satellite

Medium Earth Orbit
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Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-51-J

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Oct. 3, 1985, 3:15 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

STS-51-J was the twenty-first space shuttle mission and the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was the second mission dedicated to deploying a Department of Defence payload. It was a classified mission however we do know that it deployed two 10 satellites.

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Molniya-M | Molniya-3 38L

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Oct. 3, 1985, 7:33 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Molniya communication satellites operating from a highly elliptical orbit

Elliptical Orbit
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Vostok 8A92M | Resurs-O1 1

RKK Energiya | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 3, 1985, 5:48 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Earth observation satellite

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Kosmos-3M | Taifun-2 21

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
Oct. 2, 1985, 9 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Taifun-2 satellite used to release up to 24 subsatellites for radar and sensor calibration

Low Earth Orbit
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Molniya-M | US-K 43

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Sept. 30, 1985, 7:23 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Early warning satellite

Elliptical Orbit
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Atlas G Centaur | Intelsat 512

Convair | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Sept. 28, 1985, 11:17 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Geostationary communications satellite

Geostationary Orbit
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Proton | TKS-M

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Sept. 27, 1985, 8:41 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Space station module

Low Earth Orbit
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Soyuz U | Zenit-8 22

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Sept. 26, 1985, 11:15 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Film-return reconnaissance satellite

Low Earth Orbit
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