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1976 in spaceflight
Orbital launches
👁 Image Viking 2 on the surface of Mars
First	6 January
Last	28 December
Total	131
Catalogued	128
National firsts
Satellite	👁 Image Indonesia
Rockets
Maiden flights	Thor DSV-2U
Retirements	Voskhod Scout B-1 Soyuz Soyuz-M Thor-Burner Luna sample return ascent stage
Crewed flights
Orbital	3
Total travellers	6
v t e

1976 in spaceflight
Timeline of spaceflight ← 1975 1977 →

v t e Timeline of spaceflight
Spaceflight before 1951
1950s	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 (H1, H2) 1959 (H1, H2)
1960s	1960 (T1, T2, T3) 1961 (H1, H2) 1962 (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) 1963 (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) 1964 (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) 1965 (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970s	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1977 1978 1979
1980s	1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s	1990 1991 (H1, H2) 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010s	2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 (H1, H2) 2019 (H1, H2)
2020s	2020 2021 (H1, H2) 2022 (H1, H2) 2023 (H1, H2) 2024 (H1, H2) 2025 (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) 2026 (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) 2027 2028 2029
2030s

The following is an outline of 1976 in spaceflight.

Launches

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Date and time (UTC)	Rocket		Flight number	Launch site		LSP
		Payload	Operator	Orbit	Function	Decay (UTC)	Outcome
		Remarks
January [edit]
6 January 04:52	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		Plesetsk Site 132/1
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 787 (Tselina-O 27)	Low Earth	SIGINT	12 December 1980	Successful
	7 January 15:34	👁 Soviet Union Voskhod		Plesetsk Site 43/3
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 788 (Zenit-4MK/Germes 54)		GRU USSR	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	20 January	Successful
15 January 05:34:00		👁 United States Titan IIIE/Star-37		👁 United States Cape Canaveral SLC-41		👁 United States NASA
	👁 United States 👁 Germany 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.
	17 January 23:27	👁 United States Delta 2914		D-119	👁 United States Cape Canaveral SLC-17B
👁 United States 👁 Canada CTS Hermes		NASA / CSA	Geosynchronous	Experimental communications	In orbit	Successful
20 January 17:07		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/1
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 789 (Parus 5)	Low Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
	22 January 11:38	👁 Soviet Union Molniya-M/Blok ML		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 1/5
👁 Soviet Union Molniya-1K 32		Molniya orbit	Communications	In orbit	Successful
22 January 22:26		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		Plesetsk Site 132/1
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 790 (Tselina-O 30)	Low Earth	SIGINT	12 November 1980	Successful
	28 January 10:39	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		Plesetsk Site 132/1
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 791 (Strela-1M 105)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 792 (Strela-1M 106)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 793 (Strela-1M 107)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 794 (Strela-1M 108)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 795 (Strela-1M 109)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 796 (Strela-1M 110)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 797 (Strela-1M 111)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 798 (Strela-1M 112)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
29 January 08:30		👁 Soviet Union Voskhod		Baikonur Site 31/6
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 799 (Zenit-2M/Gektor 64)	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	10 February	Successful
	29 January 23:56	👁 United States Atlas-SLV-3D Centaur-D1AR		AC-37	👁 United States Cape Canaveral SLC-36B
👁 United Nations Intelsat IVA F-2		Intelsat	Geostationary	Communications	In orbit	Successful
February [edit]
3 February 08:16		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/1
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 800 (Zaliv 20)	Low Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
	4 February 06:00	👁 Japan M-3C		Kagoshima Space Center LP-M		ISAS
Corsa A		ISAS	Low Earth	X-ray astronomy	4 February	Failure
5 February 14:30		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-2		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 133/1
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 801 (DS-P1-I 17)	Low Earth	Radar calibration	5 January 1978	Successful
	11 February 08:50	👁 Soviet Union Voskhod		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 31/6
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 802 (Zenit-4MK/Germes 55)		GRU	Low Eath	Reconnaissance	25 February	Successful
12 February 13:00		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/2
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 803 (DS-P1-M 8)	Low Earth	ASAT target	In orbit	Successful
	Target for Kosmos 804 and 814
	16 February 08:29	👁 Soviet Union Tsyklon-2		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 90/20
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 804 (IS-A 1)		Low Earth	ASAT test	16 February	Successful
19 February 07:52		👁 United States Thor-LV2F Burner-2A		👁 United States Vandenberg AFB SLC-10W		👁 United States US Air Force
	👁 United States DMSP-5C F3 (OPS 5140)	USAF	Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO)	Weather	19 February	Failure
	Thor stage not loaded with enough fuel due to typo in engine data sheet. The satellite was placed in much lower orbit and re-entered after one orbit
	19 February 22:32	👁 United States Delta 2914		D-120	👁 United States Cape Canaveral SLC-17B
👁 United Nations Marisat-1		Marisat	Geostationary	Communications	In orbit	Successful
20 February 14:01		👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/3
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 805 (Yantar-2K/Feniks 4)	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	11 March	Successful
	29 February 03:30:00	👁 Japan N-I		👁 Japan Tanegashima LA-N		👁 Japan ISAS
👁 Japan Ionospheric Sounding Satellite (ISS) Ume		ISAS	Low Earth	Ionospheric research	In orbit	Successful
First launch completed on February 29
March [edit]
10 March 08:00		👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 31/6
		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 806 (Zenit-4MK/Germes 56)	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	23 March	Successful
	11 March 19:45	👁 Soviet Union Molniya-M/Blok ML		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 41/1
👁 Soviet Union Molniya-1K 33		Molniya	Communications	10 October 1990	Successful
12 March 13:30		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/1
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 807 (Taifun-1 4)	Low Earth	Radar calibration	In orbit	Successful
	15 March 01:25:40^[2]	👁 United States Titan III(23)C		👁 United States Cape Canaveral SLC-40		👁 United States NASA
👁 United States LES-8		MIT Lincoln Laboratory	Geostationary	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Successful
👁 United States LES-9		MIT Lincoln Laboratory	Geostationary	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Successful
👁 United States SOLRAD 11A		NRL	High Earth orbit	Heliophysics	In orbit	Successful
👁 United States SOLRAD 11B		NRL	High Earth orbit	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.^[1]
16 March 17:22		👁 Soviet Union Vostok-2M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 41/1
		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 808 (Tselina-D 9)	Low Earth	SIGINT	20 November 1993	Successful
	18 March 09:15	Kosmos 809		Baikonur Site 31/6
Kosmos 809 (Zenit-2M/Gektor 65)		GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	30 March	Successful
19 March 19:31		👁 Soviet Union Molniya-M/Blok ML		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 1/5
	👁 Soviet Union Molniya-1K 34	Molniya	Communications	14 May 1985	Successful
	22 March 18:14	👁 United States Titan III(24)B		👁 United States Vandenberg AFB SLC-4W		👁 United States US Air Force
👁 United States KH-8 46 (Gambit-3 46, OPS 7600)		NRO	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	18 May	Successful
26 March 15:00		👁 Soviet Union Voskhod		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/3
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 810 (Zenit-4MK/Germes 57)	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	8 April	Successful
	26 March 22:47	👁 United States Delta 3914		D-121	👁 United States Cape Canaveral SLC-17A
👁 United States Satcom 2		RCA Americom	Geostationary	Communications	In orbit	Successful
31 March 12:50		👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 41/1
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 811 (Zenit-4MT/Orion 10)	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	12 April	Successful
	April [edit]
6 April 04:14	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/1
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 812 (Tselina-O 31)	Low Earth	SIGINT	30 October 1980	Successful
	7 April 13:05	👁 Soviet Union Vostok-2M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 41/1
👁 Soviet Union Meteor-1 24		Low Earth	Weather	In orbit	Successful
9 April 08:30		👁 Soviet Union Voskhod		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/3
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 813 (Zenit-2M/Gektor 66)	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	21 April	Successful
	13 April 17:15	👁 Soviet Union Tsyklon-2		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 90/20
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 814 (IS-A 2)		Low Earth	ASAT test	13 March	Successful
22 April 20:46		👁 United States Delta 2914		D-122	👁 United States Cape Canaveral SLC-17B		👁 United States US Air Force
	👁 NATO NATO 3A	NATO	Geostationary	Military communications	In orbit	Successful
	28 April 09:30	👁 Soviet Union Voskhod		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/3
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 815 (Zenit-4MK/Germes 58)		GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	11 May	Successful
28 April 13:30		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		Plesetsk Site 132/1
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 816 (Taifun-2 1)	Low Earth	Radar calibration	24 November 1979	Successful
	👁 Soviet Union 24 Romb subsatellites	Low Earth	Radar calibration	1977	Successful
	30 April 19:12	👁 United States Atlas F MSD		👁 United States Vandenberg AFB SLC-3W
👁 United States MSD 1		US Navy	Low Earth	Satellite deployment	In orbit	Successful
👁 United States NOSS 1A		US Navy	Low Earth	Ocean surveillance, ELINT	In orbit	Successful
👁 United States NOSS 1B		US Navy	Low Earth	Ocean surveillance, ELINT	In orbit	Successful
👁 United States NOSS 1C		US Navy	Low Earth	Ocean surveillance, ELINT	In orbit	Successful
May [edit]
4 May 08:00		👁 United States Delta 2913 / Star-24		D-123	👁 United States Vandenberg AFB SLC-2W
	👁 United States LAGEOS-1	NASA	Medium Earth orbit	Geodesy	In orbit	Successful
	5 May 07:50	👁 Soviet Union Voskhod		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 31/6
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 817 (Zenit-4MK/Germes 59)		GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	18 May	Successful
12 May 17:57		👁 Soviet Union Molniya-M/Blok ML		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 41/1
	👁 Soviet Union Molniya-3 16L	Molniya	Communications	4 February 1990	Successful
	13 May 22:28	👁 United States Atlas SLV-3D Centaur-D1AR		AC-38	👁 United States Cape Canaveral SLC-36A
👁 United States Comstar 1A (D1)		COMSAT	Geostationary	Communications	In orbit	Successful
15 May 13:30		👁 Soviet Union Vostok-2M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/3
	👁 Soviet Union Meteor-Priroda 2-1 (Meteor-1 25)	Low Earth	Weather, Earth observation	In orbit	Successful
	18 May 10:59	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-2		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 133/1
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 818 (DS-P1-Yu 78)		Low Earth	Radar calibration	7 March 1977	Successful
20 May 09:00		👁 Soviet Union Voskhod		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 31/6
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 819 (Zenit-2M/Gektor 67)	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	1 June	Successful
	21 May 07:00	👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/3
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 820 (Zenit-4MKT/Fram 2)		GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	2 June	Successful
22 May 07:42		👁 United States Scout B-1		👁 United States Vandenberg AFB SLC-5		👁 United States US Air Force
	👁 United States Wideband (P76-5)	STP	Low Earth	Ionosphere research	In orbit	Successful
	26 May 09:00	👁 Soviet Union Voskhod		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/3
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 821 (Zenit-4MK/Germes 60)		GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	8 June	Successful
28 May 15:00		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/1
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 822 (Taifun-1/Vektor 5)	Low Earth	Radar calibration	8 August 1978	Successful
	June [edit]
2 June 20:56	👁 United States Titan III(34)B		👁 United States Vandenberg AFB SLC-4W
	👁 United States Quasar 1 (SDS 1, OPS 7837)	NRO	Highly elliptical	Data relay	In orbit	Successful
	2 June 22:30	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/2
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 823 (Zaliv 21)		Low Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
8 June 07:00		👁 Soviet Union Voskhod		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 31/6
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 824 (Zenit-4MK/Germes 61)	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	21 June	Successful
	10 June 00:09	👁 United States Delta 2914		D-124	👁 United States Cape Canaveral SLC-17A
👁 United Nations Marisat 2		Marisat	Geostationary	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/2
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 825 (Strela-1M 113)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 826 (Strela-1M 114)	Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 827 (Strela-1M 115)	Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 828 (Strela-1M 116)	Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 829 (Strela-1M 117)	Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 830 (Strela-1M 118)	Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 831 (Strela-1M 119)	Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 832 (Strela-1M 120)	Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
16 June 13:09	👁 Soviet Union Voskhod		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/3
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 833 (Zenit-4MK/Germes 62)	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	29 June	Successful
	19 June 16:00	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/1
👁 United Nations Interkosmos 15 (AUOS-Z-T-IK 1)		Interkosmos	Low Earth	Test spacecraft	18 November 1979	Successful
Cooperative project of Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Hungary, Poland and the USSR
22 June 18:04:00		👁 Soviet Union Proton-K		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 81/23		👁 Soviet Union
		👁 Soviet Union Salyut 5 (Almaz OPS-3)	Low Earth	Space station	8 August 1977	Successful
	Visited by three crews, one of which failed to dock
	24 June 07:10	👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/3
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 834 (Zenit-2M/Gektor 68)		GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	6 July	Successful
26 June 03:00		👁 United States Titan III(23)C		👁 United States Cape Canaveral SLC-40
	👁 United States DSP 6 (OPS 2112)	USAF	Geostationary	Missile early warning	In orbit	Successful
	29 June 07:20	👁 Soviet Union Voskhod		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 31/6
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 835 (Zenit-4MK/Germes 63)		GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	12 July	Successful
Final flight of the Voskhod
29 June 08:12		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/2
		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 836 (Strela-2M 12)	Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	July [edit]
1 July 08:05	👁 Soviet Union Molniya-M/Blok ML		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/4
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 837 (Molniya-2)	Molniya (planned) Low Earth (achieved)	Communications	18 November 1983	Partial failure
	Malfunction of Blok ML upper stage, the satellite placed in the much lower orbit
	2 July 10:30	👁 Soviet Union Tsyklon-2		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 90/19
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 838 (US-P 3)		Low Earth	Ocean surveillance, ELINT	23 August 1977	Successful
6 July 12:08:45		👁 Soviet Union Soyuz		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 1/5		👁 Soviet Union
	👁 Soviet Union 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
	8 July 18:30	👁 United States Titan IIID		👁 United States Vandenberg AFB SLC-4E
👁 United States KH-9 12 (Hexagon, OPS 4699)		NRO	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	13 December	Successful
👁 United States Ursala 3 (P-11 4430, OPS 5366)		Low Earth	ELINT, SIGINT	In orbit	Successful
👁 United States S3 3 (S74-2, OPS 3986)		STP	Highly elliptical	Magnetosphere research	24 April 1986	Successful
Ursala was deployed from KH-9
8 July 21:08		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/1
		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 839 (DS-P1-M 9)	Low Earth	ASAT target	In orbit	Successful
	Target for Kosmos 843
	8 July 23:31	👁 United States Delta 2914		D-125	👁 United States Cape Canaveral SLC-17A
👁 Indonesia Palapa A1		Perumtel	Geostationary	Communications	In orbit	Successful
First Indonesian satellite
14 July 09:00		👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/4
		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 840 (Zenit-2M/Gektor 69)	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	26 July	Successful
	15 July 13:11	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/1
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 841 (Strela-2M 13)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
21 July 10:20		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk 132/1
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 842 (Sfera 15)	Low Earth	Geodesy	In orbit	Successful
	21 July 15:14	👁 Soviet Union Tsyklon-2		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 90/19
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 843 (IS-A 3)		Low Earth	ASAT test	22 July	Successful
22 July 15:40		👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 844 (Yantar-2K/Feniks 5)	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	30 August	Successful
	22 July 22:04	👁 United States Atlas SLV-3D Centaur-D1AR		AC-40	👁 United States Cape Canaveral SLC-36B
👁 United States Comstar 1B (D2)		COMSAT	Geostationary	Communications	In orbit	Successful
23 July 15:49		👁 Soviet Union Molniya-M/Blok ML		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 1/5
	👁 Soviet Union Molniya-1K 35	Molniya	Communications	30 May 1987	Successful
	27 July 05:21	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/1
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 845 (Tselina-O 32)		Low Earth	SIGINT	15 November 1980	Successful
27 July 12:00		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Kapustin Yar Site 107/2
	👁 United Nations Interkosmos 16 (DS-U3-IK 6)	Interkosmos	Low Earth	Aeronomy, solar research	10 July 1979	Successful
	Cooperative project of Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Sweden and the USSR
	29 July 17:07	👁 United States Delta 2310		D-126	👁 United States Vendenberg AFB SLC-2W
👁 United States NOAA-5 (ITOS-H)		NOAA	SSO	Weather	In orbit	Successful
29 July 20:02		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/1
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 846 (Zaliv 22)	Low Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
	August [edit]
4 August 13:40	👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Sie 43/4
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 847 (Zenit-4MK/Germes 64)	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	17 August	Successful
	6 August 22:21	👁 United States Titan III(34)B		👁 United States Vandenberg AFB SLC-4W
👁 United States Quasar 2 (SDS 2, OPS 7940)		NRO	Highly elliptic	Data relay	18 April 2020	Successful
9 August 12:08:45		👁 Soviet Union Proton-K/D		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur 81/23
	👁 Soviet Union Luna 24	Selenocentric	Lunar lander	22 August	Successful
	Third uncrewed lunar sample return, Third Soviet lunar sample return
	12 August 13:30	👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/3
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 848 (Zenit-2M/Gektor #70)		GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	25 August	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Nauka-19KS 1L		Low Earth	Research		25 August	Successful
18 August 09:30		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-2		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 133/1
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 849 (DS-P1-I 18)	Low Earth	Radar calibration	24 April 1978	Successful
	26 August 10:59	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-2		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 133/1
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 850 (DS-P1-Yu 79)		Low Earth	Radar calibration	16 May 1977	Successful
27 August 14:34		👁 Soviet Union Vostok-2M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/4
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 851 (Tselina-D 10)	Low Earth	SIGINT	5 August 1989	Successful
	28 August 09:00	👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 31/6
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 852 (Zenit-4MK/Germes 65)		GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	10 September	Successful
30 August 11:45		👁 China Feng Bao 1		👁 China Jiuquan LA-2B (Site 138)
	👁 China JSSW-3 (CK 3)	Elliptical low Earth orbit	Unknown	25 November 1978	Successful
	Apogee much higher than intended.
	September [edit]
1 September 03:23	👁 Soviet Union Molniya-M/Blok ML		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/3
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 853 (Molniya-2)	Molniya (intended) Low Earth (achieved)	Communications	31 December	Partial failure
	Malfunction of the Blok ML upper stage, the satellite placed to the much lower orbit
	1 September 21:14	👁 United States Scout D-1		👁 United States Veandenberg AFB SLC-5		👁 United States US Air Force
👁 United States Triad 3 (TIP 3)		US Navy	Low Earth	Navigation	30 May 1981	Successful
3 September 09:20		👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/4
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 854 (Zenit-4MK/Germes 66)	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	16 September	Successful
	11 September 08:00	👁 United States Thor-LV2F Star-37XE Star-37S-ISS		👁 United States Vandenberg AFB SLC-10W		👁 United States US Air Force
👁 United States DMSP-5D1 F1 (OPS 5721)		USAF	SSO	Weather	In orbit	Successful
11 September 18:24		👁 Soviet Union Proton-K/Blok DM		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 81/24
	👁 Soviet Union Raduga 2 (Gran 12L)	Geostationary	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	15 September 09:48:30	👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 1/5		👁 Soviet Union
👁 Soviet Union Soyuz 22		Low Earth	Salyut expedition	23 September 07:40:47	Successful
Crewed flight with two cosmonauts
15 September 18:50		👁 United States Titan III(24)B		👁 United States Vandenberg AFB SLC-4W		👁 United States US Air Force
		👁 United States KH-8 47 (Gambit-3, OPS 8533)	NRO	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	5 November	Successful
	21 September 11:40	👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/3
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 855 (Zenit-4MT/Orion 11)		GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	3 October	Successful
22 September 09:30		👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 31/6
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 856 (Zenit-2M/Gektor 71) & Nauka	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	5 October	Successful
	👁 Soviet Union Nauka	Low Earth	Research
	24 September 15:00	👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/3
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 857 (Zenit-4MK/Germes 67)		GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	7 November	Successful
29 September 07:04		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/2
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 858 (Strela-2M 14)	Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
	October [edit]
4 October 11:00	👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/4
	👁 Soviet Union Zenit-4MKT/Fram 3	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	4 October	Failure
	One of liquid rocket boosters prematurely detached from the core stage, the launch vehicle lost stability. Thrust termination command was issued at T+94 s
	10 October 09:35	👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 31/6
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 859 (Zenit-4MK/Germes 68)		GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	21 October	Successful
14 October 17:39:18		👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 1/5		👁 Soviet Union
	👁 Soviet Union 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
	14 October 22:44	👁 United States Delta 2914		D-	👁 United States Cape Canaveral SLC-17A
👁 United Nations Marisat 3		Marisat	Geostationary	Communications	In orbit	Successful
15 October 22:59		👁 Soviet Union Vostok-2M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/3
	👁 Soviet Union Meteor-1 26	Low Earth	Weather	In orbit	Successful
	17 October 18:06	👁 Soviet Union Tsyklon-2		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 90/19
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 860 (US-A 12)		Low Earth	Radar ocean surveillance	In orbit	Successful
21 October 16:53		👁 Soviet Union Tsyklon-2		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 90/19
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 861 (US-A 13)	Low Earth	Radar ocean surveillance	In orbit	Successful
	22 October 09:11	👁 Soviet Union Molniya-M/Blok 2BL		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/4
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 862 (US-K 5)		Molniya	Missile early warning	In orbit	Successful
25 October 14:30		👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/4
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 863 (Zenit-4MK/Germes 69)	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	5 November	Successful
	26 October 14:50	👁 Soviet Union Proton-K/Blok DM		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 81/24
👁 Soviet Union Ekran 1 (Ekran 11L)		Geostationary	Communications	In orbit	Successful
29 October 12:39		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/2
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 864 (Parus 6)	Low Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
	November [edit]
1 November 11:20	👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/4
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 865 (Zenit-2M/Gektor 72)	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	13 November	Successful
	10 November 09:05	👁 China Feng Bao 1		👁 China Jiuquan LA-2B (Site 138)
👁 China JSSW		Low Earth	Unknown	10 November	Failure
Engine on the second stage malfunctioned, reducing thrust.
11 November 10:45		👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 31/6
		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 866 (Zenit-4MK/Germes 70)	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	23 November	Successful
	23 November 16:27	👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/4
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 867 (Zenit-6U/Argon 1)		GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	6 December	Successful
25 November 03:59		👁 Soviet Union Molniya-M/Blok SO-L		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 31/6
	👁 Soviet Union Prognoz 5	Highly elliptical	Magnetoshpere and solar research	12 July 1979	Successful
	26 November 14:30	👁 Soviet Union Tsyklon-2		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 90/20
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 868 (US-P 4)		Low Earth	Ocean surveillance, ELINT	8 July 1978	Successful
29 November 16:04		👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 1/5
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 869 (Soyuz-T Test 3)	Low Earth	Uncrewed test of Soyuz-T spacecraft	17 December 10:31	Successful
	December [edit]
2 December 00:17	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/2
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 870 (Tselina-O 33)	Low Earth	SIGINT	20 December 1980	Successful
	2 December 02:44	👁 Soviet Union Molniya-M/Blok ML		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/4
👁 Soviet Union Molniya-2 16		Molniya	Communications	18 January 1991	Successful
7 December 04:38		👁 China Long March 2A		👁 China Jiquan LA-2B (Site 138)
	👁 China FSW-0 2	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	2 December	Successful
	Re-entry capsule recovered on 9 December
	7 December 10:23	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/1
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 871 (Strela-1M 121)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 872 (Strela-1M 122)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 873 (Strela-1M 123)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 874 (Strela-1M 124)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 875 (Strela-1M 125)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 876 (Strela-1M 126)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 877 (Strela-1M 127)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 878 (Strela-1M 128)		Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Successful
9 December 10:00		👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/4
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 879 (Zenit-2M/Gektor 73)	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	22 December	Successful
	9 December 20:00	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/2
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 880 (DS-P1-M 10)		Low Earth	ASAT target	31 August 1991	Successful
Target for Kosmos 886
15 December 01:30		👁 Soviet Union Proton-K		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 81/24
		👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 881 (TKS-VA 1)	Low Earth	Uncrewed test of TKS-VA spacecraft	15 December	Successful
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 882 (TKS-VA 2)	Low Earth	Uncrewed test of TKS-VA spacecraft	15 December	Successful
	Test flight of two VA capsules without FGB service modules
	15 December 13:59	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/1
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 883 (Tsikada 1)		Low Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful
17 December 09:30		👁 Soviet Union Soyuz-U		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 31/6
	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 884 (Zenit-4MK/Germes 71)	GRU	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	29 December	Successful
	17 December 12:00	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/2
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 885 (Taifun-2 2)		Low Earth	Radar calibration	14 October 1979	Successful
👁 Soviet Union 17 Romb subsatellites		Low Earth	Radar calibration	1977-1978	Successful
19 December 18:19		👁 United States Titan IIID		👁 United States Vandenberg SLC-4E		👁 United States US Air Force
	👁 United States KH-11 1 (Kennen, OPS 5705)	NRO	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	28 January 1979	Successful
	27 December 12:05	👁 Soviet Union Tsyklon-2		👁 Soviet Union Baikonur Site 90/19
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 886 (IS-A 4)		Low Earth	ASAT test	In orbit	Successful
28 December 06:38		👁 Soviet Union Molniya-M/Blok BL		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 43/4
	👁 Soviet Union Molniya-3 17L	Molniya	Communications	19 March 1990	Successful
	28 December 07:49	👁 Soviet Union Kosmos-3M		👁 Soviet Union Plesetsk Site 132/1
👁 Soviet Union Kosmos 887 (Parus 7)		Low Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Successful

Launches from the Moon

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Date and time (UTC)	Rocket		Flight number	Launch site		LSP
		Payload (⚀ = CubeSat)	Operator	Orbit	Function	Decay (UTC)	Outcome
		Remarks
19 August 5:25	👁 Soviet Union Luna 24 Ascent stage		Mare Crisium (Luna)
	👁 Soviet Union Luna 24 Return capsule	👁 Soviet Union	Highly elliptical	Sample return	22 August 1976	Successful
	Third uncrewed lunar sample return mission

Deep space rendezvous

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Date	Spacecraft	Event	Remarks
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

References

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Krebs, Gunter. "Chronology of Space Launches".
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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.
"Хроника освоения космоса" [Chronicle of space exploration]. CosmoWorld (in Russian).
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Footnotes

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^ 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.
^ McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Report. Archived from the original on 16 November 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2020.

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