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Kosmos-3M | Tsikada 7

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Dec. 10, 1980, 8:53 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Civilian navigation satellite equivalent to the purely military Parus

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Atlas E/MSD | Parcae 4A,B,C & MSD 4

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 9, 1980, 7:18 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

The Parcae satellites were passive ELINT satellites. MSD satellites were dispensers of triplets of ocean surveillance satellites.

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Atlas SLV-3D Centaur | Intelsat 502

Convair | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 6, 1980, 11:31 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Geostationary communications satellite

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Kosmos-3M | Parus 25

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Dec. 5, 1980, 4:23 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

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Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 30

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Dec. 1, 1980, 12:15 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Optical film-return reconnaissance satellite

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Molniya-M | US-K 18

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 27, 1980, 9:37 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Early warning satellite

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Soyuz-U | Soyuz T-3

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Nov. 27, 1980, 2:18 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Soyuz T-3 was the 13th mission to visit the Salyut 6 space station. It was the first Soyuz spacecraft since 1971 that carried three cosmonauts. The mission began on November 27, 1980, 14:18:28 UTC, launching Commander Leonid Kizim, Flight Engineer Oleg Makarov and Research Cosmonaut Gennady Strekalov into orbit. They docked with the station the next day. During their 11-day stay on the station, crew was busy with overhauling and maintenance work on the station, and also carried out usual experiments. The mission concluded with a safe landing back on Earth on December 10, 1980, 09:26:10 UTC.

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Vostok 8A92M | Tselina-D 27

RKK Energiya | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 21, 1980, 11:53 a.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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Molniya-M | Molniya-1K 48

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 16, 1980, 4:18 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Military communications satellite in a highly elliptic orbit

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Delta 3910/PAM | SBS 1

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Nov. 15, 1980, 10:49 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Geostationary communications satellite built by Hughes Aircraft Company

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