Previous Spaceflight Launches
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Ariane 1 | Giotto
Aérospatiale | FranceGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
July 2, 1985, 11:23 a.m.
Atlas G Centaur | Intelsat 511
Convair | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
June 30, 1985, 12:44 a.m.
Soyuz U | Zenit-8 17
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RussiaPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
June 26, 1985, 12:35 p.m.
Zenit-2 | GVM Tselina-2
Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | UkraineBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
June 21, 1985, 8:29 a.m.
Soyuz U | Resurs-F1 17F41 55L
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RussiaPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
June 21, 1985, 7:45 a.m.
Soyuz U | Progress 24
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
June 21, 1985, 12:39 a.m.
Kosmos-3M | Taifun-2 20
Russian Space Forces | RussiaPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
June 19, 1985, 11:30 a.m.
Molniya-M | US-K 40
Russian Space Forces | RussiaPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
June 18, 1985, 12:40 a.m.
Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51-G
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
June 17, 1985, 11:33 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
STS-51-G was the eighteenth flight of the shuttle program and fifth for Space Shuttle Discovery. Sultan Salman Al Saud of Saudi Arabia was on board as a payload specialist; he became the first Arab, the first Muslim and first member of a royal family to fly into space. It was the first shuttle flight to fly without an astronaut from the pre-Shuttle era. Its mission was to deploy 3 10 satellites.
Low Earth OrbitTsiklon-3 | Geo-IK 6
Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | UkrainePlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
June 14, 1985, 10:36 a.m.
