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Tsiklon-2 | US-PM 2

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | Ukraine
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 28, 1993, 3:39 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

US-PM (Upravlenniye Sputnik Passivny Modifikirovanny) (also reported as US-PU) was a solar powered improved EORSAT (Electronic Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite). It used an passive ELINT devices to track naval vessels from space by registering their electronic emmissions.

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Soyuz U | Yantar-1KFT 16

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 27, 1993, 10:35 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Film-return reconnaissance satellite

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Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-55

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 26, 1993, 2:50 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

STS-55 (Space Transportation System 55), or D-2 was the 55th overall flight of the US Space Shuttle and the 14th flight of Shuttle Columbia. This flight was a multinational Spacelab flight involving 88 experiments from eleven different nations. The experiments ranged from biology sciences to simple earth observations.

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Pegasus | Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors (ALEXIS)

Orbital Sciences Corporation | United States of America
Air launch to orbit
April 25, 1993, 1:56 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Unknown Mission

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

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Molniya-M | Molniya-3 57L

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
April 21, 1993, 12:23 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Molniya communication satellites operating from a highly elliptical orbit

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Tsiklon-3 | Tselina-R 4

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | Ukraine
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
April 16, 1993, 7:49 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Tselina-R series ELINT satellite

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Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-56

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 8, 1993, 5:29 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

STS-56 was a Space Shuttle Discovery mission to perform special experiments. The mission was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 8 April 1993.

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Molniya-M | US-K 73

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
April 6, 1993, 7:07 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Early warning satellite

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Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 69

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
April 2, 1993, 2:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Film-return reconnaissance satellite

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Kosmos-3M | Parus 80

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
April 1, 1993, 6:57 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

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