1970 in spaceflight
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[edit] Launches
This is a list of spaceflights launched in 1970.
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Launch Date/Time Rocket Launch
Site Launch Contractor Payload Operator Orbit Mission/
Function Re-Entry/
Destruction Outcome Remarks
Site Launch Contractor Payload Operator Orbit Mission/
Function Re-Entry/
Destruction Outcome Remarks
April 11
19:13 GMT Saturn V (C-5) LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center NASA Apollo 13 CSM Odyssey NASA Intended: Lunar orbit
Actual: Lunar free return Manned Lunar orbit. April 15, 1970 Failure Explosion in Service Module crippled spacecraft, resulting in mission abort.
19:13 GMT Saturn V (C-5) LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center NASA Apollo 13 CSM Odyssey NASA Intended: Lunar orbit
Actual: Lunar free return Manned Lunar orbit. April 15, 1970 Failure Explosion in Service Module crippled spacecraft, resulting in mission abort.
Apollo 13 LM Aquarius NASA Intended: Lunar landing
Actual: Lunar free return Manned lunar landing April 15, 1970 Failure Mission aborted due to CSM malfunction. LM used to help bring crew back to Earth.
Actual: Lunar free return Manned lunar landing April 15, 1970 Failure Mission aborted due to CSM malfunction. LM used to help bring crew back to Earth.
April 24 Long March 1 Rocket North West Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center PRC Dong Fang Hong I PRC LEO Test satellite Unknown Successful First satellite launched by China
June 1
19:00 GMT Soyuz
(R-7/A-2) LC-1, Baikonur RVSN Soyuz 9
2 Cosmonauts RVSN LEO Manned Orbital Spaceflight June 19, 1970
11:58 GMT Successful Longest Manned flight involving only one spacecraft.
(As of 09/06/06)
19:00 GMT Soyuz
(R-7/A-2) LC-1, Baikonur RVSN Soyuz 9
2 Cosmonauts RVSN LEO Manned Orbital Spaceflight June 19, 1970
11:58 GMT Successful Longest Manned flight involving only one spacecraft.
(As of 09/06/06)
June 1
19:00 GMT Black Arrow Woomera RAE Orba RAE LEO Micrometeoroid detection satellite June 19, 1970
11:58 GMT Failure First British attempt to launch a satellite. Failed to reach orbit after premature 2nd stage cutout.
19:00 GMT Black Arrow Woomera RAE Orba RAE LEO Micrometeoroid detection satellite June 19, 1970
11:58 GMT Failure First British attempt to launch a satellite. Failed to reach orbit after premature 2nd stage cutout.
December 12
10:54 GMT Scout B San Marco mobile range, Kenya CRA Uhuru NASA LEO X-ray astronomy Still in orbit Successful First satellite dedicated to X-ray astronomy.
10:54 GMT Scout B San Marco mobile range, Kenya CRA Uhuru NASA LEO X-ray astronomy Still in orbit Successful First satellite dedicated to X-ray astronomy.
[edit] Deep Space Rendez-vous in 1970
April 15 — Apollo 13 lunar flyby at 254 km (sample return mission) September 20 — Luna 16, 100g from Mare Fecunditatis (sample return mission) October 24 — Zond 8 circumlunar flight of the Moon (1,110 km) November 17 — Luna 17 delivered Lunokhod 1 at Mare Imbrium December 15 — Venera 7 atmospheric probe worked for 23 min on the Venerian surface
[edit] References
Generic references:
Encyclopedia Astronautica Gunter's Space Page - Chronology of Space Launches JAXA Jonathan's Space Report (SatCat.txt and Launchlog.txt) Mission Set Database (NASA GFC) NASA NASA SpaceFlight.com Orbital Report News Agency's Launch Logs Space Calendar (NASA JPL) Southwest Space Archive SPACE.com Launch Forecast SpaceFlightNow Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive U.S. Space Objects Registry Хроника оÑÐ²Ð¾ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ ÐºÐ¾ÑмоÑа (Russian)
