1976 in spaceflight
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Quick Facts Orbital launches, First ...
Orbital launches | |
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First | 6 January |
Last | 28 December |
Total | 131 |
Catalogued | 128 |
National firsts | |
Satellite | Indonesia |
Rockets | |
Maiden flights | Thor DSV-2U |
Retirements | Voskhod Scout B-1 Soyuz Soyuz-M Thor-Burner |
Crewed flights | |
Orbital | 3 |
Total travellers | 6 |
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More information Date and time (UTC), Rocket ...
Date and time (UTC) | Rocket | Flight number | Launch site | LSP | |||
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Payload (⚀ = CubeSat) |
Operator | Orbit | Function | Decay (UTC) | Outcome | ||
Remarks | |||||||
15 January 05:34:00 |
Titan IIIE/Star-37 | Cape Canaveral SLC-41 | NASA | ||||
Helios-B | NASA / DFVLR | Heliocentric | Solar probe | In orbit | Successful | ||
Achieved a closest approach to the Sun of 43.432 million km (0.29 AU) on 17 April 1976, the closest approach achieved by an artificial satellite; it was succeeded by the Parker Solar Probe in 2018. | |||||||
29 February 03:30:00 |
N-I | Tanegashima LA-N | |||||
Ionospheric Sounding Satellite (ISS) Ume | Low Earth | Ionospheric | In orbit | Successful | |||
First launch completed on February 29 | |||||||
15 March 01:25:40[1] |
Titan III(23)C | Cape Canaveral SLC-40 | NASA | ||||
LES-8 | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | Geosynchronous | Technology demonstration | In orbit | Successful | ||
LES-9 | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | Geosynchronous | Technology demonstration | In orbit | Successful | ||
SOLRAD 11A | NRL | Geosynchronous | Heliophysics | In orbit | Successful | ||
SOLRAD 11B | NRL | Geosynchronous | Heliophysics | In orbit | Successful | ||
LES-8 was decommissioned in 2004; LES-9, the last Lincoln Experimental Satellite, continued functioning for 44 years and was finally decommissioned in 2020.[2] | |||||||
22 June 18:04:00 |
Proton-K | Baikonur Site 81/23 | |||||
Salyut 5 (Almaz OPS-3) | Low Earth | Space station | 8 August 1977 | Successful | |||
Visited by three crews, one of which failed to dock | |||||||
6 July 12:08:45 |
Soyuz | Baikonur Site 1/5 | |||||
Soyuz 21 | Low Earth (Salyut 5) | Salyut expedition | 24 August 18:32:17 | Partial mission failure | |||
Crewed flight with two cosmonauts, final flight of Soyuz 11A511, returned early due to crew illness | |||||||
9 August 12:08:45 |
Proton-K/D | Baikonur 81/23 | |||||
Luna 24 | Selenocentric | Lunar lander | 22 August | Successful | |||
Third uncrewed lunar sample return, Third Soviet lunar sample return | |||||||
15 September 09:48:30 |
Soyuz-U | Baikonur Site 1/5 | |||||
Soyuz 22 | Low Earth | Salyut expedition | 23 September 07:40:47 | Successful | |||
Crewed flight with two cosmonauts | |||||||
14 October 17:39:18 |
Soyuz-U | Baikonur Site 1/5 | |||||
Soyuz 23 | Low Earth (Intended: Salyut 5) | Salyut expedition | 16 October 17:45:53 | Spacecraft failure | |||
Crewed flight with two cosmonauts, failed to dock with Salyut 5 | |||||||
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More information Date and time (UTC), Rocket ...
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Operator | Orbit | Function | Decay (UTC) | Outcome | ||
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19 August 5:25 |
Luna 24 Ascent stage | Mare Crisium (Luna) | |||||
Luna 24 Return capsule | Highly elliptical | Sample return | 22 August 1976 | Successful | |||
Third uncrewed lunar sample return mission | |||||||
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More information Date, Spacecraft ...
Date | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
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19 June | Viking 1 | Areocentric orbit insertion | |
20 July | Viking 1 Lander | landed in Chryse Planitia | |
7 August | Viking 2 | Areocentric orbit insertion | |
18 August | Luna 24 | landed in Mare Crisium | sample return mission |
19 August | Luna 24 | lift-off from Mare Crisium | 170 grams (6.0 oz) |
3 September | Viking 2 Lander | landed in Utopia Planitia |
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- Bergin, Chris. "NASASpaceFlight.com".
- Clark, Stephen. "Spaceflight Now".
- Kelso, T.S. "Satellite Catalog (SATCAT)". CelesTrak.[dead link]
- Krebs, Gunter. "Chronology of Space Launches".
- Kyle, Ed. "Space Launch Report". Archived from the original on 5 October 2009. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
- McDowell, Jonathan. "GCAT Orbital Launch Log".
- Pietrobon, Steven. "Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive".
- Wade, Mark. "Encyclopedia Astronautica".
- Webb, Brian. "Southwest Space Archive".
- Zak, Anatoly. "Russian Space Web".
- "ISS Calendar". Spaceflight 101.
- "NSSDCA Master Catalog". NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
- "Space Calendar". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[dead link]
- "Space Information Center". JAXA.[dead link]
- "Хроника освоения космоса" [Chronicle of space exploration]. CosmoWorld (in Russian).
Footnotes
- McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Report. Archived from the original on 16 November 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
- Ryan, Dorothy (27 May 2020). "Lincoln Laboratory decommissions Lincoln Experimental Satellite–9". MIT. Archived from the original on 2 February 2023. Retrieved 6 December 2020.