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Soyuz U | Zenit-8 25

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Dec. 3, 1985, 12:15 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Film-return reconnaissance satellite

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Kosmos-3M | Parus 51

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 28, 1985, 1:12 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Navigation satellite providing location information for the Tsiklon-B navigation system

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Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-61-B

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Nov. 27, 1985, 12:29 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

STS-61-B was the twenty-third space shuttle mission and the second for the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The shuttle was launched for Kennedy Space Center and the shuttle deployed three communicates satellites. It also tested techniques for constructing structures in orbit. This mission marked the quickest turnaround of a shuttle, just 54 days elapsed beetween this launch and Atlantis' previous mission.

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Tsiklon-3 | Tselina-D 51

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | Ukraine
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 22, 1985, 10:20 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Tselina-D satellites provided detailed observation of radio sources detected by the smaller Tselina-O satellites as part of the Tselina ELINT system.

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Proton-K/DM | Raduga 17

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Nov. 15, 1985, 2:29 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Geostationary communications satellite for military and governmental puposes

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Soyuz U | Zenit-8 24

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 13, 1985, 12:25 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Film-return reconnaissance satellite

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Molniya-M | US-K 45

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 9, 1985, 8:25 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Early warning satellite

Elliptical Orbit
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Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-61-A

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Oct. 30, 1985, 5 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

STS-61-A was the twenty-second space shuttle flight and ninth for Space Shuttle Challenger. It was a scientific spacelab mission funded entirely by West Germany. The payload operations were controlled from the German Space Operations Center as opposed to the regular NASA centers.

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Molniya-M | Molniya-1T 66

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Oct. 28, 1985, 5:24 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Military communications satellite in a highly elliptic orbit

Elliptical Orbit
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Proton | Luch #1

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 25, 1985, 3:45 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Geostationary communications satellite

Geostationary Orbit
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