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Minotaur | STEP 0 & DARPASAT

Orbital ATK | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
March 13, 1994, 10:32 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

STEP 0 (Space Test Experiment Platform 0) was a technology demonstration satellite flown under the Space Test Program (STP). DARPASAT (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Satellite) was designed to demonstrate advanced technology. Ball Aerospace designed, fabricated, integrated, and tested the spacecraft bus, and integrated two government-supplied payloads.

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Delta II | GPS IIA-15

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
March 10, 1994, 3:40 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

GPS-2A (Global Positioning System) or Navstar-2A (Navigation System using Timing And ranging) are improved satellites of the second generation of the GPS navigation system.

Medium Earth Orbit
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Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-62

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
March 4, 1994, 1:53 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

STS-62 was a Space Shuttle program mission flown aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. The primary payloads were the USMP-02 microgravity experiments package and the OAST-2 engineering and technology payload, both in the orbiter's cargo bay. The two-week mission also featured a number of biomedical experiments focusing on the effects of long duration spaceflight.

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Tsiklon-3 | Koronas-I

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | Ukraine
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 2, 1994, 3:25 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

KORONAS-I (or CORONAS-I), a Russian-Ukranian spacecraft, was launched by a Tsiklon-3 booster from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. It carried UV and x-ray instruments to map the Sun and plasma monitors to study the ionosphere and magnetosphere.

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Delta 7925-8 | Galaxy 1R2

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Feb. 19, 1994, 11:45 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Geostationary communications satellite

Geostationary Orbit
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Proton | Raduga 31

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Feb. 18, 1994, 7:56 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Geostationary communications satellite for military and governmental puposes

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Tsiklon-3 | Strela-3 101 to 106

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | Ukraine
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Feb. 12, 1994, 8:54 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Second generation store-dump military communications satellites

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Long March 3A | Shi Jian 4

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Feb. 8, 1994, 8:33 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

SJ 4 (Shi Jian 4) was a satellite to monitor the space radiation environment and its effects in an elliptical orbit.

Elliptical Orbit
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Titan 401A Centaur | Milstar 1

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Feb. 7, 1994, 9:47 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Milstar (Military Strategic & Tactical Relay), DFS (Development Flight Satellite) is the tactical and strategic multiservice satellite system designed to provide survivable communications for U.S. forces worldwide. The program is managed by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Center.

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Proton | Raduga-1 3

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Feb. 5, 1994, 8:46 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Military geostationary communications satellite

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