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Long March 2C | FSW-1 5
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaJiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Oct. 8, 1993, 8 a.m.
Titan II SLV | Landsat 6
Lockheed Martin | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 5, 1993, 5:56 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:
The Landsat 6 satellite was a commercial program jointly with the Department of Commerce (NOAA) and EOSAT Company that provided data for a wide range of Earth resources applications including environmental monitoring, natural resource exploration, urban planning, and cartography. The Landsat 6 satellite continued the series of operational Earth resource monitoring spacecraft begun with Landsat 1 in 1972.
Low Earth Orbit
Proton | Raduga 30
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Sept. 30, 1993, 5:05 p.m.
Ariane 40 | SPOT 3
Aérospatiale | FranceGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Sept. 26, 1993, 1:45 a.m.
PSLV | IRS-P1
Indian Space Research Organization | IndiaSatish Dhawan Space Centre, India
Sept. 20, 1993, 5:12 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:
IRS-1E (Indian Remote Sensing Satellite) satellite was an experimental Indian earth observing satellite, which was derived from the engineering model of IRS-1A incorporating a Monocular Electro-Optical Stereo Scanner developed by DLR, Germany, and a LISS-I camera similar to that on IRS-1A.
Low Earth Orbit
Tsiklon-2 | US-PM 4
Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | UkraineBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Sept. 17, 1993, 12:43 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.
Low Earth Orbit
Zenit-2 | Tselina-2 14
Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | UkraineBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Sept. 16, 1993, 7:36 a.m.
Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Sept. 12, 1993, 11:45 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
STS-51 was a Space Shuttle Discovery mission that launched the Advanced 10 Technology Satellite (ACTS) in September 1993. The flight also featured the deployment and retrieval of the SPAS-ORFEUS satellite and its IMAX camera, which captured spectacular footage of Discovery in space. A spacewalk was also performed during the mission to evaluate tools and techniques for the STS-61 Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission later that year.
Low Earth Orbit
Soyuz-U | Orlets-1 5
Soviet Space Program | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Sept. 7, 1993, 1:25 p.m.
Atlas I | UHF F/O F2
General Dynamics | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Sept. 3, 1993, 11:17 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The U.S. Navy began replacing and upgrading its ultra-high frequency (UHF) satellite communications network during the 1990s with a constellation of customized satellites built by Hughes Space and Communications Company. Known as the UFO (Ultra High Frequency Follow On) series, these HS-601 model satellites support the Navy's global communications network, serving ships at sea and a variety of other U.S. military fixed and mobile terminals.
Geostationary Orbit
