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1985 in spaceflight
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| year | 1985 |
| maidens | |
| M-3SII | |
| orbital | 11 |
| totalcrew | 63 |
| firsttrav | |
M-3SII
The following is an outline of 1985 in spaceflight.
Overview
First ''Atlantis'' flight
Orbital launches
January
|- |d-date = 8 January 1999
|d-date = 27 January |d-time = 21:23
February
|-
|d-date = March 1992
March
|-
|d-date = July 1999
April
|-
Anik C1 was retired on 5 May 2003. Leasat 3 failed to maneuver to geosynchronous orbit and was re-captured by mission STS-51-I in August, repaired and subsequently maneuvered to geosynchronous orbit. Discovery suffered extensive brake and tyre damage upon landing at Kennedy Space Center. |d-date = 19 April |d-time = 13:54 Operational: Geosynchronous Operational: Geosynchronous
|d-date = 6 May |d-time = 16:11 |d-span = 3 |d-span = inherit |d-span = inherit |d-date = 15 December
May
|-
June
|- |d-date = 26 September |d-time = 09:51
Arabsat 1B retired in 1993. |d-date = 24 June |d-time = 13:11 |d-date = 24 June |d-time = 13:11
|d-date = 15 July |d-time = 22:33
July
|- Closest approach of 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup (200 km) achieved on 10 July 1992
|d-date = 30 August |d-time = 01:20
|d-date = 6 August |d-time = 19:45 |d-span = 3 |d-span = inherit |d-span = inherit
August
|-
|d-date = 22 February 1991
Leasat 4 failed in orbit after becoming operational for a short period Retrieved Leasat 3, deployed by STS-51-D in April and repaired the malfunctioning perigee motor to allow the satellite to reach geosynchronous orbit. |d-date = 3 September |d-time = 13:15
|d-date = 28 August
September
|-
|o-span = 2 |d-date = 12 September |d-span = 2 |o-span = inherit |d-span = inherit
|d-date = 21 November |d-time = 10:31
|d-date = 7 February 1991
October
|-
|d-date = 7 October |d-time = 17:00
Maiden flight of Spacelab Long Module #2 |d-date = 6 November |d-time = 17:44 |d-span = 2 |d-span = inherit |d-date = 26 December 1986
November
|-
|d-date = 2 December |d-time = 21:33 |d-date = 2 March 1987 |d-date = 2 December |d-time = 21:33
December
|-
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Suborbital flights
|d-date=13 September
|}
Deep Space Rendezvous
| Date (GMT) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 June | Vega 1 | delivered lander and balloon on Venus | |
| 15 June | Vega 2 | delivered lander and balloon on Venus | |
| 11 September | ISEE-3/ICE | Flyby of 21P/Giacobini-Zinner |
EVAs
| Start date/time | Duration | End time | Spacecraft | Crew | Remarks | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 April | 3 hours | ||||||||
| 6 minutes | STS-51-D | ||||||||
| USAJeffrey A. Hoffman | |||||||||
| USAS. David Griggs | Installed an improvised switch-pulling tool, called the Flyswatter, on the RMS robotic arm. The Flyswatter was used in an effort to push the sequencer start lever on the Leasat-3 in the proper position for deployment. This attempted repair was the first unplanned spacewalk in NASA history. | ||||||||
| 2 August | |||||||||
| 07:15 | 5 hours | 12:15 | Salyut 7 EO-4 | USSRVladimir Dzhanibekov | |||||
| USSRViktor Savinykh | Installed a third pair of solar arrays on exterior of Salyut 7. | ||||||||
| 31 August | 7 hours | ||||||||
| 20 minutes | STS-51-I | ||||||||
| Discovery | USAWilliam Fisher | ||||||||
| USAJames van Hoften | url=http://www.nss.org/resources/library/shuttlevideos/shuttle20.htm | title=Space Shuttle Flight 20 (STS-51A) | access-date=21 February 2009 | work=Space Shuttle Video Library | publisher=National Space Society | date=July 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718061547/http://www.nss.org/resources/library/shuttlevideos/shuttle20.htm | archive-date=18 July 2012 | url-status=dead }} |
| 1 September | 4 hours | ||||||||
| 26 minutes | STS-51-I | ||||||||
| Discovery | USAWilliam Fisher | ||||||||
| USAJames van Hoften | Completed repairs on the Leasat 3 satellite. Then Van Hoften, riding the RMS, heaved the satellite out of the payload bay, imparting the required spin needed to fire the perigee motor. | ||||||||
| 29 November | 5 hours | ||||||||
| 32 minutes | STS-61-B | ||||||||
| USAJerry L. Ross | |||||||||
| USASherwood C. Spring | Practiced construction techniques in the payload bay and assembled and disassembled the two experimental EASE/ACCESS structures.{{cite web | url=https://history.nasa.gov/monograph41.pdf | title=Human Spaceflight | access-date=23 February 2009 | |||||
| 1 December | 6 hours | ||||||||
| 41 minutes | STS-61-B | ||||||||
| Atlantis | USAJerry L. Ross | ||||||||
| USASherwood C. Spring | Conducted supplementary experiments on the EASE and ACCESS structures, including a test of the RMS to aid in the construction experiments. |
References
Footnotes
References
- (2007). "Space Shuttle Mission Archives". NASA.
- Becker, Joachim. (2009). "Human Spaceflights - STS-51D". Space Facts.
- (July 2008). "Space Shuttle Flight 20 (STS-51A)". National Space Society.
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