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| Orbital launches | |
|---|---|
| First | 5 January |
| Last | 29 December |
| Total | 115 |
| Catalogued | 110 |
| National firsts | |
| Space traveller | |
| Rockets | |
| Maiden flights | ASLV Energia |
| Retirements | Atlas H N-II Titan III(34)B |
| Crewed flights | |
| Orbital | 3 |
| Total travellers | 8 |
The following is an outline of1987 in spaceflight.
| Date and time (UTC) | Rocket | Flight number | Launch site | LSP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payload (⚀ =CubeSat) | Operator | Orbit | Function | Decay (UTC) | Outcome | ||
| Remarks | |||||||
| 5 February 21:38:16 | |||||||
| Low Earth (Mir) | MirEO-2 | 30 July 01:04:12 | Successful | ||||
| Crewed flight launching twocosmonauts and landing three, first crewed flight ofSoyuz-TM | |||||||
| 12 February 06:40 | |||||||
| U.S. Air Force | Molniya | Communications | In orbit | Successful | |||
| Final flight of theTitan IIIB rocket. Final use of theRM-81 Agena upper stage in any rocket. | |||||||
| 26 February 23:05 | |||||||
| NOAA | Geostationary | Weather | In orbit | Operational | |||
| 20 March 23:05 | |||||||
| PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara | ? | Communications | In orbit | Successful | |||
| 31 March 00:16:16 | |||||||
| 1991–2001:Roskosmos | Low Earth (Mir) | Mir module | 23 March 2001 05:59:36 | Successful | |||
| Low Earth (Kvant-1) | Space tug | 25 August 1988 | Successful | ||||
| 15 May 17:30:01 | |||||||
| Intended: Low Earth | Weapons tests Technology | 15 May | Launch failure | ||||
| Maiden flight of Energia, computer error resulted in spacecraft attempting to perform circularisation burn in aretrograde orientation, failed to orbit | |||||||
| 8 June | |||||||
| ISRO | Suborbital | Engineering test | 8 June | Successful | |||
| First flight of the RH-300 Mk II, reached an altitude of 130 km (80 miles) | |||||||
| 22 July 01:59:17 | |||||||
| Low Earth (Mir) | MirEP-1 | 29 December 09:16:15 | Successful | ||||
| Crewed flight with three cosmonauts, firstSyrian in space, carried replacement for ill EO-2 crewmember | |||||||
| 24 August 16:30 | |||||||
| DFVLR | Suborbital | X-ray astronomy | 24 August | Successful | |||
| Apogee: ~270 km | |||||||
| 8 October | |||||||
| IAE | Suborbital | Engineering test | 8 October | Successful | |||
| "Operation Petrópolis". R&D launch for theVLS program. 510 kg payload. 570 km apogee.[2] | |||||||
| 21 November 02:19:00 | |||||||
| Deutsche Bundespost | Current:Graveyard Operational:Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Spacecraft failure | |||
| Immediately after launch, one of its solar panels failed to deploy, and as a result of this the main uplink antenna, which was located behind the solar panel, could not deploy either. Briefly used to verify the systems of theSpacebus 300 satellite bus before being retired to a graveyard orbit. | |||||||
| 21 December 11:18:03 | |||||||
| Low Earth (Mir) | MirEO-3 | 17 June 1988 10:12:32 | Successful | ||||
| Crewed flight with three cosmonauts | |||||||
There were no deep-space rendezvous in 1987.