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1995 in spaceflight
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| year | 1995 |
| image | KSC-95EC-0911.jpg |
| caption | launches on STS-71, the first Shuttle-Mir mission to dock with Mir |
| first | 11 January |
| last | 24 December |
| total | 80 |
| success | 72 |
| failed | 5 |
| partial | 3 |
| catalogued | 74 |
| firstsat | (post Czechoslovak) |
| (post Soviet) | |
| maidens | Athena I |
| Conestoga | |
| Delta II 7920 | |
| Long March 1D | |
| Volna | |
| Shavit 1 | |
| retired | Atlas E/F |
| Conestoga | |
| Long March 2E | |
| Mu-3SII | |
| Soyuz-U2 | |
| orbital | 9 |
| totalcrew | 48 |
(post Soviet) Conestoga Delta II 7920 Long March 1D Volna Shavit 1 Conestoga Long March 2E Mu-3SII Soyuz-U2
This article outlines notable events occurring in 1995 in spaceflight, including major launches and EVAs.
First Shuttle-''Mir'' mission
Orbital launches
January
|- Second stage control malfunction, decayed from orbit shortly after launch over Ghana; Spacecraft intended to be recovered |d-date=15 January |d-date=27 September |d-date=25 January
February
|- ODERACS deployed on 4 February |o-span=3 |d-date=11 February |d-time=11:51 |d-span=3 |o-span=inherit |d-span=inherit |o-span=inherit |d-span=inherit |d-date=9 March 1996 |d-date=28 August |d-date=7 February 1996 |d-date=2 March |d-date=27 February |d-date=20 February |d-date=15 March |d-time=06:15 |d-date=3 March
March
|- |o-span=3 |d-date=18 March |d-time=21:48 |d-span=3 |o-span=inherit |d-span=inherit |o-span=inherit |d-span=inherit |d-date=30 October 2000 |d-date=11 September |d-time=06:52 |d-date=20 January 1996 |d-time=07:42 |d-date=31 May Satellite exploded on 3 February 2015, leaving at least 47 tracked pieces of debris. |d-date=3 February 2015 |o-span=3 |d-date=28 March |d-span=3 |o-span=inherit |d-span=inherit |o-span=inherit |d-span=inherit
April
|- |d-date=24 October 2000 |d-date=23 May |d-time=03:27 |d-date=23 June 1999 |d-date=21 February 2024 |d-time=17:17
May
|- |d-date=23 March 2001 |d-time=05:50 Operational: Geosynchronous
June
|- |d-date=11 July 1997 |d-date=22 June First Shuttle-Mir docking, exchanged Mir EO-18 for EO-19 (first space station crew exchange using a Space Shuttle) |o-span=2 |d-date=7 July |d-time=14:55 |d-span=2 |o-span=inherit |d-span=inherit |d-date=6 September
July
|- TDRS deployed on 13 July using an Inertial Upper Stage |d-date=22 July |d-time=12:02 |d-date=4 September |d-time=08:58
August
|- |d-date=16 October 2000 |d-date=16 October 2000 Destroyed by range safety after loss of control system |d-time=+160 seconds
September
|- Final flight of Soyuz-U2 |d-date=29 February 1996 |d-time=10:42 SPARTAN deployed on 8 September and retrieved on 10 September; WSF deployed on 7 September and retrieved on 14 September |o-span=4 |d-date=16 September |d-time=11:38 |d-span=4 |o-span=inherit |d-span=inherit |o-span=inherit |d-span=inherit |o-span=inherit |d-span=inherit |d-date=26 October |d-date=28 September 1996
October
|- |d-date=21 August 1997 |d-date=19 December |d-time=16:15 |o-span=3 |d-date=5 November |d-time=11:46 |d-span=3 |o-span=inherit |d-span=inherit |o-span=inherit |d-span=inherit |d-time=+ 46 seconds
November
|- |d-date=20 November |d-time=17:02 |d-date=23 March 2001 |d-time=05:50
December
|- |d-date=22 February 1996 |d-time=11:02 |d-date=8 November 1997 |d-date=30 April 2018 |}
Suborbital launches
January-March
|- |d-date=19 January |d-date=19 January |d-date=19 January |d-date=23 January |d-date=25 January |d-date=28 January
|d-date=1 February |d-date=2 February |d-date=2 February |d-date=7 February |d-date=7 February |d-date=14 February |d-date=24 February
|d-date=4 March |d-date=6 March |d-date=6 March |d-date=6 March |d-date=14 March |d-date=14 March |d-date=15 March |d-date=17 March |d-date=19 March |d-date=21 March |d-date=25 March |d-date=27 March |d-date=28 March
April-June
|- |d-date=1 April |d-date=9 April |d-date=9 April |d-date=14 April |d-date=15 April |d-date=18 April |d-date=21 April |d-date=24 April |d-date=29 April
|d-date=2 May |d-date=15 May |d-date=22 May |d-date=29 May
|d-date=6 June |d-date=6 June |d-date=8 June |d-date=14 June |d-date=26 June |d-date=29 June |d-date=30 June
July-September
|- |d-date=24 July |d-date=26 July |d-date=31 July |d-time=+15 minutes
|d-date=8 August |d-date=16 August |d-date=16 August |d-date=22 August |d-date=24 August |d-date=25 August |d-date=28 August |d-date=30 August
|d-date=2 September |d-date=5 September |d-date=12 September |d-date=17 September
October-December
|- |d-date=2 October |d-date=10 October |d-date=13 October |d-date=13 October |d-date=25 October |d-date=28 October |d-date=29 October
|d-date=2 November |d-date=5 November |d-date=7 November |d-date=10 November |d-date=14 November |d-date=19 November |d-date=20 November |d-date=24 November |d-date=27 November |d-date=27 November |d-date=28 November
|d-date=4 December |d-date=7 December |d-date=13 December |d-date=13 December
|}
Deep Space Rendezvous
| Date (GMT) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 December | Galileo | First impact of spacecraft to Jupiter - subprobe descent through the Jovian atmosphere | |
| 8 December | Galileo | First orbiter of Jupiter - jovian orbit insertion | |
| no date | Ulysses | Pass over solar north pole |
EVAs
| Start date/time | Duration | End time | Spacecraft | Crew | Remarks | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 February | |||||||||||
| 11:56 | 4 hours | ||||||||||
| 39 minutes | 16:35 | STS-63 | |||||||||
| UK/USAMichael Foale | |||||||||||
| USABernard A. Harris, Jr. | Conducted a test of moving large mass objects and tested the effectiveness of the new spacesuit temperature control underwear by being lofted outside the payload bay by the RMS. | ||||||||||
| 12 May | |||||||||||
| 04:20 | 6 hours | ||||||||||
| 15 minutes | 10:35 | Mir EO-18 | |||||||||
| Kvant-2 | RUSVladimir Dezhurov | ||||||||||
| RUSGennadi Strekalov | url=http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/shuttle-mir/references/documents/mirfinal.pdf | title=Mir Mission Chronicle | last=McDonald | first=Sue | date=December 1998 | publisher=NASA | pages=12 | access-date=2009-03-06 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090318000952/http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/shuttle-mir/references/documents/mirfinal.pdf | archive-date= 18 March 2009 | url-status= dead}} |
| 17 May | |||||||||||
| 02:38 | 6 hours | ||||||||||
| 42 minutes | 09:20 | Mir EO-18 | |||||||||
| Kvant-2 | RUSVladimir Dezhurov | ||||||||||
| RUSGennadi Strekalov | Moved the solar arrays from Kristall to Kvant-1. Their suits ran low on oxygen before they were able to re-install the arrays on Kvant-1. | ||||||||||
| 22 May | |||||||||||
| 00:10 | 5 hours | ||||||||||
| 15 minutes | 05:25 | Mir EO-18 | |||||||||
| Kvant-2 | RUSVladimir Dezhurov | ||||||||||
| RUSGennadi Strekalov | Completed installation of the relocated solar array on Kvant-1. Also retracted some solar panels to prepare for moving Kristall. | ||||||||||
| 28 May | |||||||||||
| 22:22 | 21 minutes | 22:43 | Mir EO-18 | ||||||||
| base block | RUSVladimir Dezhurov | ||||||||||
| RUSGennadi Strekalov | Conducting a spacewalk inside the transfer compartment of the Mir base block Dezhurov and Strekalov relocated a docking cone from the -X port to the -Z port. | ||||||||||
| 1 June | |||||||||||
| 22:05 | 23 minutes | 22:28 | Mir EO-18 | ||||||||
| base block | RUSVladimir Dezhurov | ||||||||||
| RUSGennadi Strekalov | Again working from the depressurized base block transfer compartment, Dezhurov and Strekalov prepared to move the recently arrived Spektr module by relocating a docking cone from the -Z port to the -Y port. | ||||||||||
| 14 July | |||||||||||
| 03:56 | 5 hours | ||||||||||
| 34 minutes | 09:30 | Mir EO-19 | |||||||||
| Kvant-2 | RUSAnatoly Solovyev | ||||||||||
| RUSNikolai Budarin | Used the Strela boom to move to the Spektr module and freed the stuck solar array. Also inspected the -Z docking port and found it to be undamaged. | ||||||||||
| 19 July | |||||||||||
| 00:39 | 3 hours | ||||||||||
| 8 minutes | 03:47 | Mir EO-19 | |||||||||
| Kvant-2 | RUSAnatoly Solovyev | ||||||||||
| RUSNikolai Budarin | Solovyev had problems with his Orlan-DMA spacesuit cooling system, and had to stay tethered to an umbilical at Kvant-2. Budarin was able work his way to the far end of Spektr and do some preparations for the installation of the Mir infrared spectrometer (MIRAS). He also collected the American TREK cosmic ray panel that had been installed on Kvant-2 since 1991. | ||||||||||
| 21 July | |||||||||||
| 00:28 | 5 hours | ||||||||||
| 50 minutes | 06:18 | Mir EO-19 | |||||||||
| Kvant-2 | RUSAnatoly Solovyev | ||||||||||
| RUSNikolai Budarin | Used the Strela boom to reach the Spektr module, where they completed the installation of MIRAS. | ||||||||||
| 16 September | |||||||||||
| 08:20 | 6 hours | ||||||||||
| 46 minutes | 15:06 | STS-69 | |||||||||
| USAJames S. Voss | |||||||||||
| USAMichael L. Gernhardt | Installed thermal instruments on the apparatus in the payload bay. Also tested redesigned spacesuit helmet lights and spacesuit heaters. | ||||||||||
| 20 October | |||||||||||
| 11:50 | 5 hours | ||||||||||
| 16 minutes | 17:06 | Mir EO-20 | |||||||||
| Kvant-2 | RUSSergei Avdeyev | ||||||||||
| GERThomas Reiter | Used the Strela boom to move to the Spektr module and installed several experiments on the European Space Exposure Facility. Reiter became the first ESA cosmonaut and German to complete an EVA. | ||||||||||
| 8 December | |||||||||||
| 19:23 | 29 minutes | 19:52 | Mir EO-20 | ||||||||
| base block | RUSSergei Avdeyev | ||||||||||
| RUSYuri Gidzenko | From inside the depressurized base block transfer compartment, Avdeyev and Gidzenko moved the Konus docking cone from the -Z port to the +Z port.. |
References
Footnotes
References
- "H-II".
- (2 March 2015). "20-Year-Old Military Weather Satellite Apparently Exploded in Orbit".
- Jonathan McDowell. (21 February 2024). "ESA ERS-2 satellite reentry on a track from Alaska to the Pacific confirmed: Space-Track gives 151.9W 37.4N over the Pacific at 1717 UTC. NOAA radar data taken 1842 UTC shows an upper-atmosphere debris trail extending S from the Alaska coast near 144W 59.5N".
- Gibson, Hillary. (14 December 2022). "SpOC officially retires DSCS satellite". [[United States Space Force]].
- Dumouline, Jim. (2001). "sts-63-patch STS-63 (67)". NASA.
- McDonald, Sue. (December 1998). "Mir Mission Chronicle". NASA.
- Dudoulin, Jim. (2001). "STS-69 Day 9 Highlights". NASA.
- "Mir Principal Expedition 20 and EuroMir 95".
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