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Artificial satellites and space probes in the 1980s Year Origin Name Target Status Description 1980 US: Solar Maximum Mission: Sun: Failure: Solar Maximum Mission solar probe succeeded after being repaired in Earth orbit 1981 India: Bhaskara-2: Earth: Success: Bhaskara-2 satellite; launched on Russian Kosmos-3M rocket for ISRO Soviet Union ...
It was the first satellite to capture colour images from space and acted significantly as a medium of communications. [ 1 ] After the success of TIROS-1 and ATS-3, NASA in conjunction with United States Geological Survey (USGS), progressed forward in Earth observation through a series of Landsat satellites launched throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
The Solar Maximum Mission satellite (or SolarMax) was designed to investigate Solar phenomena, particularly solar flares.It was launched on February 14, 1980. The SMM was the first satellite based on the Multimission Modular Spacecraft bus manufactured by Fairchild Industries, a platform which was later used for Landsat 4 and Landsat 5 [1] as well as the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.
NASA Low Earth Solar: 2 December 1989: Successful Spacecraft's attitude control system malfunctioned ten months after launch, subsequently repaired by Space Shuttle Challenger during STS-41-C in April 1984 17 February 00:40 Mu-3S: Kagoshima LA-M: ISAS: Tansei-4: ISAS Low Earth Technology: 12 May 1983: Successful Maiden flight of Mu-3S 20 ...
The seven Nimbus satellites, launched over a fourteen-year period, shared their space-based observations of the planet for thirty years. NASA transferred the technology tested and refined by the Nimbus missions to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for its operational satellite instruments. The technology and lessons ...
Crewed orbital flight with three cosmonauts including the first French space traveller 25 June 02:28 Molniya-M/Blok 2BL Plesetsk Site 41/1 Kosmos 1382 (US-K #27) Molniya Early warning: In orbit: Successful 27 June 15:00 Space Shuttle Columbia: Kennedy LC-39A United Space Alliance STS-4: NASA Low Earth Developmental test flight: 4 July 16:09 ...
Space Shuttle Challenger: Kennedy LC-39A: United Space Alliance: STS-6: NASA: Low Earth Satellite deployment: 9 April 18:53: Successful TDRS-1 NASA Geostationary: Communications: In orbit: Operational Crewed orbital flight with four astronauts; Maiden flight of Space Shuttle Challenger: 15 April 18:45 Titan 24B: Vandenberg SLC-4W: OPS-2925 NRO ...
It was also known as the X-ray Explorer Satellite, SAS-A (for Small Astronomy Satellite A, the first of the three-spacecraft SAS series), SAS 1, or Explorer 42. The NASA observatory was launched on 12 December 1970 into an initial orbit of about 560 km apogee , 520 km perigee , 3 degrees inclination, with a period of 96 minutes.