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The following is an outline of 1988 in spaceflight.
This timeline of spaceflight may require cleanup to ensure consistency with other timeline of spaceflight articles. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Timeline of spaceflight working group for guidelines on how to improve the article. Details Concerns have been raised that:
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Orbital launches | |
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First | 6 January 1988 |
Last | 29 December 1988 |
Total | 121 |
Catalogued | 116 |
National firsts | |
Satellite | Israel Luxembourg |
Orbital launch | Israel |
Space traveller | Afghanistan |
Rockets | |
Maiden flights | Ariane 4 Long March 4A Shavit |
Retirements | Energia Titan 34D |
Crewed flights | |
Orbital | 5 |
Total travellers | 19 |
Date and time (UTC) | Rocket | Flight number | Launch site | LSP | |||
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Payload (⚀ = CubeSat) |
Operator | Orbit | Function | Decay (UTC) | Outcome | ||
Remarks | |||||||
25 March | Scout G-1 | San Marco mobile range, Kenya | ASI | ||||
San Marco-D/L | ASI | Low Earth | Atmospheric research | In orbit | Successful | ||
7 June 21:38:16 |
Soyuz-U2 | Baikonur Site 1/5 | |||||
Soyuz TM-5 | Low Earth (Mir) | Mir EP-2 | 7 September 00:48:38 | Successful | |||
Crewed flight launching three cosmonauts and landing two, computer problems during deorbit nearly resulted in loss of crew, and delayed landing by one day | |||||||
15 June 11:19 |
Ariane 4 44LP | Kourou ELA-2 | Arianespace | ||||
Meteosat-3 | EUMETSAT | GTO | Meteorology | In orbit | Successful | ||
PAS 1 | PanAmSat | GTO | Communications | In orbit | Successful | ||
AMSAT-OSCAR-13 | AMSAT | Low Earth | Amateur radio | 6 December 1996 | Successful | ||
Maiden flight of the Ariane 4 rocket | |||||||
7 July 17:38 |
Proton-K | Baikonur site LC200/39 | |||||
Fobos 1 | Intended: Areocentric Actual: Heliocentric |
Mars orbiter | In orbit | Spacecraft failure | |||
stationary lander | Phobos lander | In orbit | Never deployed | ||||
Loss of communication 2 September 1988 en route to Mars | |||||||
12 July 17:01 |
Proton-K | Baikonur site LC200/40 | |||||
Fobos 2 | Areocentric | Mars orbiter | In orbit | Spacecraft failure | |||
stationary lander | Phobos lander | In orbit | Never deployed | ||||
"hopping" lander | Phobos lander | In orbit | Never deployed | ||||
Loss of communication 27 March 1989 near Phobos | |||||||
29 August 04:23:11 |
Soyuz-U2 | Baikonur Site 1/5 | |||||
Soyuz TM-6 | Low Earth (Mir) | Mir EP-3 | 21 December 09:57:00 | Successful | |||
Crewed flight with three cosmonauts, one remained on Mir as part of EO-3, first Afghan space traveller | |||||||
29 September 15:37:00 |
Space Shuttle Discovery | Kennedy LC-39B | United Space Alliance | ||||
STS-26R | NASA | Low Earth | Satellite deployment | 3 October 16:37:11 | Successful | ||
TDRS-3 (TDRS-C) | NASA | Geosynchronous | Communications | In orbit | Operational | ||
Crewed flight with five astronauts, first US crewed spaceflight after the Challenger accident in 1986, TDRS deployed using Inertial Upper Stage | |||||||
15 November 03:00:02 |
Energia | Baikonur Site 110/37 | |||||
Buran 1K1 | Low Earth | Test flight | 06:26 | Successful | |||
37KB No.3770 | Low Earth (Buran) | Test flight | Successful | ||||
Uncrewed test, only flight of Buran and final flight of Energia | |||||||
26 November 14:49:34 |
Soyuz-U2 | Baikonur Site 1/5 | |||||
Soyuz TM-7 | Low Earth (Mir) | Mir EO-4/EP-4 | 27 April 1989 02:57:58 | Successful | |||
Crewed flight with three cosmonauts | |||||||
2 December 14:30:34 |
Space Shuttle Atlantis | Kennedy LC-39B | United Space Alliance | ||||
STS-27R | NASA/NRO | Low Earth | Satellite deployment | 6 December 23:30:39 | Successful | ||
USA-34 (Lacrosse) | NRO/CIA | Low Earth | Radar imaging | 25 March 1997 | Successful | ||
Crewed flight with five astronauts | |||||||
11 December 00:33 |
Ariane 4 44LP | Kourou ELA-2 | Arianespace | ||||
Skynet 4B | UK Ministry of Defence | GTO | Communications | In orbit | Successful | ||
Astra 1A | SES Astra | GTO | Communications | In orbit | Successful |
There were no deep-space rendezvous in 1988.
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