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This is a list of spaceflights launched in 1992. Spaceflight is the use of Space technology to fly a Spacecraft into and through Outer space. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar)
| Launch Date/Time | Rocket | Launch Site | Launch Contractor | Payload | Operator | Orbit | Mission/ Function | Re-Entry/ Destruction | Outcome | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 January, 03:40 GMT | Black Brant IX | LC-36, White Sands | NASA | NASA | Sub-orbital | Astronomy | 11 January 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 248 kilometres (154 mi) | |
| 17 January | Storm | SULF, White Sands | US Air Force | BTTV-1 | US Air Force | Sub-orbital | Test flight | 17 January 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 200 kilometres (120 mi) |
| 21 January, 15:00:00 GMT | Soyuz-U | LC-43/3, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2175 (Yantar) | MOM | LEO | 20 March 1992 | Successful | First Russian (post Soviet) satellite launch | |
| 22 January, 14:52:33 GMT | NASA | LEO | Manned orbital flight | 30 January 1993, 16:07:17 GMT | Successful | |||||
| ESA/NASA | LEO | Microgravity research | Successful | |||||||
| 23 January, 19:19 GMT | Black Brant IX | LC-36, White Sands | NASA | NASA | Sub-orbital | Plasma research | 23 January 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 300 kilometres (190 mi) | |
| 24 January, 01:18:01 GMT | Molniya-M | LC-43/3, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2176 (Oko) | MOM | Molniya | Missile defence | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 25 January, 07:50:17 GMT | Soyuz-U2 | LC-1/5, Baikonur | VKS | Progress M-11 | MOM | LEO, docked to Mir | Resupply Mir | 13 March 1992 | Successful | |
| 28 January, 12:00 GMT | S-310 | LA-K, Kagoshima | ISAS | ISAS | Sub-orbital | Aeronomy | 28 January 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 223 kilometres (139 mi) | |
| 29 January, 22:19:12 GMT | Proton-K/DM-2 | LC-81/23, Baikonur | VKS | Kosmos-2177 (GLONASS) | MOM | MEO | Navigation | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| Kosmos-2178 (GLONASS) | MOM | MEO | Navigation | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| Kosmos-2179 (GLONASS) | MOM | MEO | Navigation | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| 31 January, 11:55 GMT | Black Brant IX | LC-36, White Sands | NASA | SXT | NASA/UoC | Sub-orbital | X-ray astronomy | 31 January 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 300 kilometres (190 mi) |
| 1 February, 16:00 GMT | S-520 | LA-K, Kagoshima | ISAS | CIR | ISAS | Sub-orbital | Infrared astronomy | 1 February 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 338 kilometres (210 mi) |
| 5 February | Zenit-2 | LC-45/1, Baikonur | VKS | Tselina-2-10 | MO RF | Intended: LEO | ELINT | 5 February 1992 | Failure | Second stage overheated, causing malfunction |
| 11 February, 00:41:02 GMT | Atlas II | LC-36A, Cape Canaveral | General Dynamics | USA-78 (DSCS IIIB-14) | US Air Force | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 11 February, 01:50 GMT | H-I | LA-N, Tanegashima | NASDA | Fuyo (JERS) | NASDA | LEO (SSO) | Earth observation | 3 December 2001 | Successful | Final flight of H-I rocket |
| 17 February, 22:05:08 GMT | Kosmos-3M | LC-133/3, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2180 (Parus) | MO RF | LEO | Navigation | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 18 February | Aries | LC-36, White Sands | SDIO | SDIO | Sub-orbital | Technology demonstration | 18 February 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 320 kilometres (200 mi) | |
| 22 February, 03:15 GMT | Black Brant IX | LC-36, White Sands | NASA | NASA | Sub-orbital | Astronomy | 22 February 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 300 kilometres (190 mi) | |
| 22 February | Trident D-5 | USS West Virginia, ETR | US Navy | CET | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 22 February 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 22 February | Trident D-5 | USS West Virginia, ETR | US Navy | CET | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 22 February 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 22 February | Trident D-5 | USS West Virginia, ETR | US Navy | CET | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 22 February 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 22 February | Trident D-5 | USS West Virginia, ETR | US Navy | CET | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 22 February 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 23 February, 22:29:00 GMT | Delta II 7925 | LC-17B, Cape Canaveral | McDonnell Douglas | USA-79 (GPS IIA-12) | US Air Force | MEO | Navigation | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 26 February, 23:58:10 GMT | Ariane 4 (44L) | ELA-2, CSG | Arianespace | Superbird B1 | SCC | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| Arabsat-1C | Arabsat | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | Later sold to ISRO as Insat-2DT | ||||
| 3 March, 13:57:30 GMT | Nike-Tomahawk | Poker Flat | NASA | Aria-1 | NASA | Sub-orbital | Plasma research | 3 March 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 295 kilometres (183 mi) |
| 3 March, 14:06:48 GMT | Black Brant 8C | Poker Flat | NASA | Aria-1 | NASA | Sub-orbital | Plasma research | 3 March 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 289 kilometres (180 mi) |
| 3 March, 14:57 GMT | Nike-Tomahawk | Poker Flat | NASA | Aria-1 | NASA | Sub-orbital | Plasma research | 3 March 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 270 kilometres (170 mi) |
| 4 March, 04:27:00 GMT | Molniya-M | LC-43/4, Plesetsk | VKS | Molniya-1-83 | MOM | Molniya | Comsat | 1 July 2007 | Successful | |
| 4 March | Peacekeeper | LF-05, Vandenberg AFB | US Air Force | US Air Force | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 4 March 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) | |
| 6 March, 13:57:30 GMT | Nike-Tomahawk | Poker Flat | NASA | NASA | Sub-orbital | Plasma research | 6 March 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 270 kilometres (170 mi) | |
| 9 March, 22:35:59 GMT | Kosmos-3M | LC-132/1, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2181 (Tsikada) | MO RF | LEO | Navigation | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 12 March, 22:42 GMT | Nike-Orion | White Sands | NASA | CWAS-21 | NASA | Sub-orbital | Aeronomy | 12 March 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 140 kilometres (87 mi) |
| 13 March, 18:15:00 GMT | Minuteman IB | LF-03, Vandenberg AFB | US Air Force | GBI-2B | US Air Force | Sub-orbital | Target | 13 March 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) |
| 13 March, 18:36:27 GMT | Aries | Meck Island, Kwajalein Atoll | US Air Force | ERIS | US Air Force | Sub-orbital | Interceptor test | 13 March 1992 | Partial failure | Final flight of ERIS Apogee: 290 kilometres (180 mi) Missed target due to programming issue caused by test conditions, enough data collected to proceed with operational programme. A rocket or rocket vehicle is a Missile, Aircraft or other Vehicle which obtains Thrust by the reaction of the In Physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved path of one object around a point or another body for example the gravitational orbit of a planet around a star Events 1055 - Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. 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Oko is a Russian (previously Soviet) Satellite system used to detect Missile launches A Molniya orbit is a type of Highly elliptical orbit with an Inclination of 63 Events 41 - After a night of negotiation Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Mir (Мир which can mean both Peace and World, and was the name given to peasant communes in pre-revolutionary Russia was a Soviet (and Mir (Мир which can mean both Peace and World, and was the name given to peasant communes in pre-revolutionary Russia was a Soviet (and Events 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Events 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The Excommunication of Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor is lifted Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London S-310 is the designation of a Japanese Sounding rocket. The S-310 is a middle-size rocket for carrying various payloads is the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture at the southwestern tip of the Kyūshū island of Japan, and the largest city in the prefecture by some A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Atmospheric physics is the application of Physics to the study of the atmosphere. 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White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Astronomy (from the Greek words astron (ἄστρον "star" and nomos (νόμος "law" is the scientific study Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile USS West Virginia in popular culture In Tom Clancy 's novel Debt of Honor, the West Virginia is one of several submarines A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile USS West Virginia in popular culture In Tom Clancy 's novel Debt of Honor, the West Virginia is one of several submarines A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile USS West Virginia in popular culture In Tom Clancy 's novel Debt of Honor, the West Virginia is one of several submarines A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile USS West Virginia in popular culture In Tom Clancy 's novel Debt of Honor, the West Virginia is one of several submarines A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western Book printed from Movable Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17 is a launch site at Merritt Island, Florida. The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing (45 SW Patrick AFB provides headquarters functions from the 45 SW a major airfield A GPS satellite is a Satellite used by the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS Medium Earth Orbit (MEO, sometimes called Intermediate Circular Orbit (ICO is the region of space around the Earth above low Earth orbit ( and below Geostationary orbit Events 747 BC - Epoch (origin of Ptolemy 's Nabonassar Era 364 - Valentinian I is proclaimed Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Ariane 4 was an Expendable launch system, designed by the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales and manufactured and marketed by its subsidiary Arianespace The Guiana Space Centre, or more commonly Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG is a French Spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana. Arianespace SA is a French company and was founded in 1980. They undertake the production operation and marketing of the Ariane 5 rocket launcher as part A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina The Arab Satellite Communications Organization (often abbreviated as Arabsat or ASCO) is a leading Communications satellite operator in the Arab World A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Poker Flat Research Range (PFRR is a launch facility and Rocket range for Sounding rockets in the U The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. The Poker Flat Research Range (PFRR is a launch facility and Rocket range for Sounding rockets in the U The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Poker Flat Research Range (PFRR is a launch facility and Rocket range for Sounding rockets in the U The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London See also Molniya (rocket The Molniya-M (Молния meaning "lightning" designation 8K78M, was a Russian (previously Soviet Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations Molniya (Молния meaning "lightning" was a Military Communications satellite system used by the Soviet Union. A Molniya orbit is a type of Highly elliptical orbit with an Inclination of 63 The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina "July 1st" redirects here For the Ayumi Hamasaki song see H (song. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a Spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Poker Flat Research Range (PFRR is a launch facility and Rocket range for Sounding rockets in the U The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 590 - Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Cosmos-3M (11K65M ( Космос-3М) is a Russian space Launch vehicle. Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 538 - Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Atmospheric physics is the application of Physics to the study of the atmosphere. Events 538 - Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The LGM-30 Minuteman is a United States nuclear Missile, a land-based Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a Spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Aries is the designation of an United States Rocket derived from the LGM-30 Minuteman missile which is used for the testing of anti-missile defense systems Kwajalein Atoll ( Marshallese: Kuwajleen; kʷuwːɔ͡ɛt̪ʲl̪ʲɪn̪ʲ common English pronunciation ˈkwɑːʤəlɨ̞n often nicknamed Kwaj A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from |
| 14 March, 00:00 GMT | Atlas I | LC-36B, Cape Canaveral | General Dynamics | Galaxy 5 | Hughes | GEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 15 March, 22:46 GMT | Nike-Orion | White Sands | NASA | CWAS-22 | NASA | Sub-orbital | Aeronomy | 15 March 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 140 kilometres (87 mi) |
| 17 March, 10:54:30 GMT | Soyuz-U2 | LC-1/5, Baikonur | VKS | Soyuz TM-14 | MOM | LEO, docked to Mir | Manned orbital flight | 10 August 1992 | Successful | First manned Russian launch |
| 18 March | Scout-II | SL, Salto di Quirra | ASI | ASI | Sub-orbital | Test | 18 March 1992 | Failure | Apogee: 1 kilometre (0. Events 1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Atlas I was an American Expendable launch system, used in the 1990s to launch a variety of different satellites Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 36 ( LC-36) was a launch complex at Cape Canaveral, Merritt Island, Florida. The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing (45 SW Patrick AFB provides headquarters functions from the 45 SW a major airfield The principal business of Hughes Communications Inc is the management and administration of its wholly owned subsidiary Hughes Network Systems, LLC A geosynchronous orbit is an Orbit around the Earth with an Orbital period matching the Earth's sidereal rotation period The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Atmospheric physics is the application of Physics to the study of the atmosphere. Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 45 BC - In his last victory Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations Crew Launched Alexander Viktorenko (3 Alexander Kaleri (1 Klaus-Dietrich Flade (1 - Germany A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Mir (Мир which can mean both Peace and World, and was the name given to peasant communes in pre-revolutionary Russia was a Soviet (and Events 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Events 37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius ' will and proclaims Caligula emperor The Scout family of Rockets were Launch vehicles designed to place small satellites into Orbit around the Earth Salto di Quirra is a Rocket launching site near Perdasdefogu on Sardinia (geographical coordinates The Italian Space Agency (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana ASI) was founded in 1988 to promote coordinate and conduct space activities in Italy The Italian Space Agency (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana ASI) was founded in 1988 to promote coordinate and conduct space activities in Italy A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius ' will and proclaims Caligula emperor Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from 62 mi) | |
| 19 March, 16:05 GMT | Black Brant IX | LC-36, White Sands | CSA | CSAR-1 | CSA | Sub-orbital | Microgravity research | 19 March 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 226 kilometres (140 mi) |
| 19 March, 16:10 GMT | Black Brant IX | LC-36, White Sands | NASA | HIRAAS-2 | NASA | Sub-orbital | Airglow research | 19 March 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 300 kilometres (190 mi) |
| 24 March, 13:13:39 GMT | Space Shuttle Atlantis | LC-39A, Kennedy | USA | STS-45 | NASA | LEO | Manned orbital flight | 2 April 1992 | Successful | |
| Atlas-1 (Spacelab) | ESA/NASA | LEO | Scientific research | Successful | ||||||
| 29 March, 07:27 GMT | Black Brant XI | Poker Flat | NASA | CHARGE-2B | NASA | Sub-orbital | Ionosphere and tether research | 29 March 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 267 kilometres (166 mi) |
| 29 March, 08:07:45 GMT | HPB | Poker Flat | Orbital | Orbital | Sub-orbital | Infrared astronomy | 29 March 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 400 kilometres (250 mi) | |
| 1 April, 14:18:00 GMT | Soyuz-U | LC-16/2, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2182 (Yantar-4K2) | MOM | LEO | Reconnaissance satellite | 30 May 1992 | Successful | |
| 2 April, 01:50:00 GMT | Proton-K/DM-2 | LC-81/23, Baikonur | VKS | Gorizont-25 | MOM | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 8 April, 12:20:00 GMT | Soyuz-U | LC-31/6, Baikonur | VKS | Kosmos-2183 (Yantar-4K2) | MOM | LEO | Reconnaissance satellite | 16 February 1993 | Successful | |
| 8 April | Trident C-4 | USS Henry L. Stimson, ETR | US Navy | FCET-40 | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 8 April 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 8 April | Trident C-4 | USS Henry L. Stimson, ETR | US Navy | FCET-40 | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 8 April 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 9 April, 10:40 GMT | Black Brant 9BM1 | Esrange | SSC | MASER-5 | SSC | Sub-orbital | Microgravity research | 9 April 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 317 kilometres (197 mi) |
| 10 April, 03:20:00 GMT | Delta II 7925 | LC-17B, Cape Canaveral | McDonnell Douglas | USA-80 (GPS IIA-13) | US Air Force | MEO | Navigation | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 15 April, 07:17:43 GMT | Kosmos-3M | LC-132/1, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2184 (Parus) | MO RF | LEO | Navigation | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 15 April, 09:09 GMT | HPB | Wallops Island | Orbital | Orbital | Sub-orbital | Target | 15 April 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 450 kilometres (280 mi) | |
| 15 April, 23:25:27 GMT | Ariane 4 (44L) | ELA-2, CSG | Arianespace | Inmarsat-2F4 | Inmarsat | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| Télécom 2B | France Télécom | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| 19 April, 21:29:25 GMT | Soyuz-U2 | LC-1/5, Baikonur | VKS | Progress M-12 | MOM | LEO, docked to Mir | Resupply Mir | 27 June 1992 | Successful | |
| 25 April, 08:53 GMT | Titan II (23G) | SLC-4W, Vandenberg AFB | US Air Force | USA-81 (Bernie/Singleton) | US NRO | LEO (Polar) | ELINT | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 29 April, 09:00:00 GMT | Soyuz-U | LC-43/4, Plesetsk | VKS | Resurs-F-14 | MOM | LEO | Remote sensing | 29 May 1992 | Successful | |
| 29 April, 10:10:00 GMT | Soyuz-U | LC-1/5, Baikonur | VKS | Kosmos-2185 (Yantar-1KFT) | MOM | LEO | Reconnaissance satellite | 11 June 1992 | Successful | |
| 29 April | DF-21 | TSLC | CALT | CALT | Sub-orbital | Test flight | 29 April 1992 | Failure | ||
| 5 May | Minuteman III | LF-10, Vandenberg AFB | US Air Force | GT-147GM-1 | US Air Force | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 5 May 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) |
| 5 May | Prithvi | Balasore | IDRDL | IDRDL | Sub-orbital | Test | 5 May 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 100 kilometres (62 mi) | |
| 7 May, 23:40:00 GMT | Space Shuttle Endeavour | LC-39B, Kennedy | USA | STS-49 | NASA | LEO | Manned orbital flight | 16 May 1992 | Successful | Maiden flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour. Events 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The Canadian Space Agency ( CSA or in French, l' Agence spatiale canadienne, ASC) is the Canadian government The Canadian Space Agency ( CSA or in French, l' Agence spatiale canadienne, ASC) is the Canadian government A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects The airglow is the very weak emission of light by the Earth's atmosphere; as a result the night sky is never completely dark Events 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1401 - Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. 1603 - James VI of Scotland Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London NASA 's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System ( STS) is the Spacecraft currently used by the United States Space Shuttle Atlantis ( Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-104 is one of the three currently operational orbiters in the Space Shuttle fleet of Launch Complex 39 (LC-39 is a Rocket launch site at the John F The John F Kennedy Space Center ( KSC) is the NASA Space vehicle launch facility and Launch Control Center ( Spaceport) on United Space Alliance (USA is spaceflight operations company USA is a joint venture equally owned by The Boeing Company (NYSEBA and Lockheed Martin Corporation STS-45 was a 1992 spaceflight using Space Shuttle Atlantis. Crew Charles F The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 68 - Galba, Governor of Hispania, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Spacelab was a reusable laboratory flown into space on the Space Shuttle. Spacelab was a reusable laboratory flown into space on the Space Shuttle. The European Space Agency ( ESA) established in 1975 is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 17 member The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. The Poker Flat Research Range (PFRR is a launch facility and Rocket range for Sounding rockets in the U The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects The ionosphere is the uppermost part of the atmosphere, distinguished because it is Ionized by solar radiation Events 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Poker Flat Research Range (PFRR is a launch facility and Rocket range for Sounding rockets in the U A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Infrared astronomy is the branch of Astronomy and Astrophysics which deals with objects visible in Infrared (IR radiation Events 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. The Yantar Special Economic Zone has been established in 1996 in the Kaliningrad Region of the Russian Federation A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 1416 - The Council of Constance, called by the Emperor Sigismund a supporter of Antipope John XXIII burns Jerome of Prague following Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Events 68 - Galba, Governor of Hispania, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Proton rocket Block D ( Блок Д in Russian is the upper stage of USSR / Russia heavy Expendable launch systems used for the N1 rocket, Proton The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations Gorizont, (Горизонт Horizon) GRAU index 11F662 is a series of 35 Russian previously Soviet, Geosynchronous communication A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla is Assassinated (and succeeded by his Praetorian Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome is a launch site used by derivatives of the R-7 Semyorka missile The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. The Yantar Special Economic Zone has been established in 1996 in the Kaliningrad Region of the Russian Federation A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 1249 - Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Events 217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla is Assassinated (and succeeded by his Praetorian This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla is Assassinated (and succeeded by his Praetorian Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla is Assassinated (and succeeded by his Praetorian This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla is Assassinated (and succeeded by his Praetorian Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans) Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. Esrange is a rocket range and Research centre located outside the town of Kiruna in northern Sweden. A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans) Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 879 - Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks. 1407 - the lama Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17 is a launch site at Merritt Island, Florida. The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing (45 SW Patrick AFB provides headquarters functions from the 45 SW a major airfield A GPS satellite is a Satellite used by the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS Medium Earth Orbit (MEO, sometimes called Intermediate Circular Orbit (ICO is the region of space around the Earth above low Earth orbit ( and below Geostationary orbit Events 1450 - Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Cosmos-3M (11K65M ( Космос-3М) is a Russian space Launch vehicle. Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Parus is a genus of Old World Birds in the tit family As defined here it contains the following species Genus Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 1450 - Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Wallops Island is a 6 Square mile (155 Km²) island off the east coast of Virginia, part of the barrier islands that stretch along the Eastern seaboard A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1450 - Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1450 - Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Ariane 4 was an Expendable launch system, designed by the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales and manufactured and marketed by its subsidiary Arianespace The Guiana Space Centre, or more commonly Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG is a French Spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana. Arianespace SA is a French company and was founded in 1980. They undertake the production operation and marketing of the Ariane 5 rocket launcher as part Inmarsat plc ( is an international Telecommunications company originally operating as an Intergovernmental organization A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina France Télécom () is the main Telecommunication company in France and one of the largest in the world A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 1012 - Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich London. 1529 - At the Second Diet of Speyer Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Mir (Мир which can mean both Peace and World, and was the name given to peasant communes in pre-revolutionary Russia was a Soviet (and Mir (Мир which can mean both Peace and World, and was the name given to peasant communes in pre-revolutionary Russia was a Soviet (and Events 1358 - Republic of Dubrovnik is founded 1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Events 1607 - Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Titan II was an Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM and space launcher developed by the Glenn L Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a Spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The National Reconnaissance Office ( NRO) located in Chantilly A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km A polar orbit is an Orbit in which a Satellite passes above or nearly above both poles of the body (usually a planet such as the Earth, but possibly Events 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Remote sensing is the small or large-scale acquisition of information of an object or phenomenon by the use of either recording or real-time sensing device(s that is not in physical Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Events 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. The Yantar Special Economic Zone has been established in 1996 in the Kaliningrad Region of the Russian Federation A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned according to the calculations of Eratosthenes. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Events 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans. The Dong-Feng 21 represents China's first solid-fuel land-based missile The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC ( also known as Base 25 (二十五基地) is a People's Republic of China space and defence launch facility A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Events 553 - The Second Council of Constantinople begins 1215 - Rebel Barons renounce their allegiance to King John The LGM-30 Minuteman is a United States nuclear Missile, a land-based Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a Spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 553 - The Second Council of Constantinople begins 1215 - Rebel Barons renounce their allegiance to King John Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 553 - The Second Council of Constantinople begins 1215 - Rebel Barons renounce their allegiance to King John Prithvi ( Sanskrit: pṛthvī, also pṛthivī) is the Hindu Earth and Mother Goddess. WikipediaWikiProject Indian cities for details --> Balasore (also known as Baleswar or Baleshwar) is a city in Orissa state of A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 553 - The Second Council of Constantinople begins 1215 - Rebel Barons renounce their allegiance to King John Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London NASA 's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System ( STS) is the Spacecraft currently used by the United States Space Shuttle Endeavour ( Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105 is one of the three currently operational orbiters in the Space Shuttle fleet of Launch Complex 39 (LC-39 is a Rocket launch site at the John F The John F Kennedy Space Center ( KSC) is the NASA Space vehicle launch facility and Launch Control Center ( Spaceport) on United Space Alliance (USA is spaceflight operations company USA is a joint venture equally owned by The Boeing Company (NYSEBA and Lockheed Martin Corporation STS-49 was the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle ''Endeavour''. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 1204 - Baldwin IX Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) NASA 's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System ( STS) is the Spacecraft currently used by the United States Space Shuttle Endeavour ( Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105 is one of the three currently operational orbiters in the Space Shuttle fleet of Reboosted Intelsat VI |
| 12 May, 14:26 GMT | Black Brant IX | LC-36, White Sands | NASA | SPARTAN (SPDE) | NASA | Sub-orbital | Solar research | 12 May 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 300 kilometres (190 mi) |
| 14 May, 00:40 GMT | Delta II 7925 | LC-17B, Cape Canaveral | McDonnell Douglas | Palapa B4 | Telkom | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 20 May, 00:30 GMT | ASLV | FLP, Sriharikota | ISRO | SROSS-C | ISRO | LEO | Magnetosphere research | 14 July 1992 | Partial failure | Placed in incorrect orbit due to fifth stage spin-up failure. Events 1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects The Sun (Sol is the Star at the center of the Solar System. Events 1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17 is a launch site at Merritt Island, Florida. The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing (45 SW Patrick AFB provides headquarters functions from the 45 SW a major airfield A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 325 - The First Council of Nicaea &ndash the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Launch log Sriharikota (Telugu శ్రీహరికోట also Sriharikote) is a Barrier island off the coast of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km A magnetosphere' is a highly magnetized region around and possessed by an Astronomical object. Events 1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father Philip II of France. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) |
| 23 May, 00:00 GMT | Nike-Orion | White Sands | NASA | CWAS-23 | NASA | Sub-orbital | Aeronomy | 23 May 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 140 kilometres (87 mi) |
| 24 May | Terrier-Malemute | Barking Sands | SDIO | CDX (LWIS) | SDIO | Sub-orbital | Target | 24 May 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 290 kilometres (180 mi) |
| 25 May, 23:52 GMT | Nike-Tomahawk | Arecibo | NASA | AA-3A | NASA | Sub-orbital | Plasma research | 25 May 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 270 kilometres (170 mi) |
| 27 May, 12:27 GMT | Nike-Orion | White Sands | NASA | CWAS-24 | NASA | Sub-orbital | Aeronomy | 27 May 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 140 kilometres (87 mi) |
| 28 May, 19:09:59 GMT | Soyuz-U | LC-16/2, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2186 (Yantar-4K2) | MOM | LEO | Reconnaissance satellite | 24 July 1992 | Successful | |
| 28 May | Agni | Balasore | IDRDL | IDRDL | Sub-orbital | Test flight | 28 May 1992 | Failure | Apogee: 10 kilometres (6. Events 1430 - Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Atmospheric physics is the application of Physics to the study of the atmosphere. Events 1430 - Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned Barking Sands is a beach on the island of Kaua'i in the Pacific Ocean. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI was a proposal by US President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI was a proposal by US President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1085 - Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo Spain back from the Moors. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Arecibo (ah-re-SEE-boh is a municipality in the northern midwest coast of Puerto Rico and located by the Atlantic Ocean north of Utuado and Ciales The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1085 - Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo Spain back from the Moors. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 927 - Simeon the Great, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies 1120 - Richard III of Capua is anointed Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Atmospheric physics is the application of Physics to the study of the atmosphere. Events 927 - Simeon the Great, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies 1120 - Richard III of Capua is anointed Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 585 BC - A Solar eclipse occurs as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. The Yantar Special Economic Zone has been established in 1996 in the Kaliningrad Region of the Russian Federation A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Events 585 BC - A Solar eclipse occurs as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling See also Agni missile system --> The Agni missile ( Sanskrit: अग्नि WikipediaWikiProject Indian cities for details --> Balasore (also known as Baleswar or Baleshwar) is a city in Orissa state of A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 585 BC - A Solar eclipse occurs as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from 2 mi) | |
| 30 May, 08:11 GMT | Black Brant IX | Arecibo | NASA | AA-4IFH | NASA/NRL | Sub-orbital | Plasma research | 30 May 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 308 kilometres (191 mi) |
| May | DF-21 | TSLC | CALT | CALT | Sub-orbital | Test flights | Within an hour of launch | Failure | ||
| 1 June, 02:52 GMT | Sonda-3 | Alcântara | IAE | INPE | Sub-orbital | Aeronomy | 1 June 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 282 kilometres (175 mi) | |
| 2 June | Minuteman III | LF-26, Vandenberg AFB | US Air Force | GT-148GB | US Air Force | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 2 June 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) |
| 3 June, 00:50:30 GMT | Kosmos-3M | LC-133/3, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2187 (Strela-1M) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| Kosmos-2188 (Strela-1M) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| Kosmos-2189 (Strela-1M) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| Kosmos-2190 (Strela-1M) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| Kosmos-2191 (Strela-1M) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| Kosmos-2192 (Strela-1M) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| Kosmos-2193 (Strela-1M) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| Kosmos-2194 (Strela-1M) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| 6 June, 08:37:31 GMT | Black Brant IX | Arecibo | NASA | AA-3B | NASA | Sub-orbital | Plasma research | 6 June 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 370 kilometres (230 mi) |
| 7 June, 16:40 GMT | Delta II (6920-10) | LC-17A, Cape Canaveral | McDonnell Douglas | EUVE | NASA | LEO | UV Astronomy | 31 January 2002 | Successful | |
| 9 June, 05:32 GMT | Black Brant IX | Arecibo | NASA | NASA | Sub-orbital | Plasma research | 9 June 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 300 kilometres (190 mi) | |
| 10 June, 00:00 GMT | Atlas IIA | LC-36B, Cape Canaveral | General Dynamics | Intelsat-K | Intelsat | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 16 June | Storm | SULF, White Sands | US Air Force | BTTV-2 | US Air Force | Sub-orbital | Test flight | 16 June 1992 | Failure | Apogee: 200 kilometres (120 mi) |
| 18 June | Trident D-5 | USS West Virginia, ETR | US Navy | CET | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 18 June 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 18 June | Trident D-5 | USS West Virginia, ETR | US Navy | CET | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 18 June 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 18 June | Trident D-5 | USS West Virginia, ETR | US Navy | CET | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 18 June 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 18 June | Trident D-5 | USS West Virginia, ETR | US Navy | CET | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 18 June 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 19 June, 11:01 GMT | Aries | LC-36, White Sands | SDIO | SDIO | Sub-orbital | Technology demonstration | 19 June 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 330 kilometres (210 mi) | |
| 23 June, 00:24 GMT | Black Brant VC | Arecibo | NASA | NASA | Sub-orbital | Ionosphere research | 23 June 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 250 kilometres (160 mi) | |
| 23 June, 08:00:00 GMT | Soyuz-U | LC-43/3, Plesetsk | VKS | Resurs-F-15 | MOM | LEO | Remote sensing | 9 July 1992 | Successful | |
| 25 June, 16:12:22 GMT | Space Shuttle Columbia | LC-39A, Kennedy | USA | STS-50 | NASA | LEO | Manned orbital flight | 9 July 1992 | Successful | |
| Spacelab USML-1 | ESA/NASA | LEO | Microgravity research | Successful | ||||||
| 30 June, 16:43:13 GMT | Soyuz-U2 | LC-31/6, Baikonur | VKS | Progress M-13 | MOM | LEO, docked to Mir | Resupply Mir | 24 July 1992 | Successful | |
| June | Nodong 1 | Musudan | DPRK | DPRK | Sub-orbital | Test | Within an hour of launch | Failure | ||
| 1 July, 02:20 GMT | Peacekeeper | LF-02, Vandenberg AFB | US Air Force | US Air Force | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 1 July 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) | |
| 1 July, 20:16:22 GMT | Kosmos-3M | LC-133/3, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2195 (Parus) | MO RF | LEO | Navigation | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 2 July, 09:01:15 GMT | Black Brant IX | Arecibo | NASA | AA-1 | NASA | Sub-orbital | Plasma research | 2 July 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 250 kilometres (160 mi) |
| 2 July, 21:54:01 GMT | Atlas II/IABS | LC-36A, Cape Canaveral | General Dynamics | USA-82 (DSCS IIIB-12) | US Air Force | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 3 July, 14:19 GMT | Scout G-1 | SLC-5, Vandenberg AFB | NASA | SAMPEX (SMEX-1/Explorer 68) | NASA | LEO | Solar research | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 3 July | RH-560 | Sriharikota | ISRO | ISRO | Sub-orbital | Ionosphere research | 3 July 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 320 kilometres (200 mi) | |
| 4 July, 08:58 GMT | Black Brant IX | Arecibo | NASA | AA-7 | NASA | Sub-orbital | Plasma research | 4 July 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 250 kilometres (160 mi) |
| 7 July, 09:20:01 GMT | Delta II 7925 | LC-17B, Cape Canaveral | McDonnell Douglas | USA-83 (GPS IIA-14) | US Air Force | MEO | Navigation | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 8 July, 09:53:14 GMT | Molniya-M | LC-43/3, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2196 (Oko) | MOM | Molniya | Missile defence | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 9 July, 22:42:19 GMT | Ariane 4 (44L) | ELA-2, CSG | Arianespace | Insat-2A | ISRO | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| Eutelsat-2F4 | Eutelsat | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| 12 July, 09:02:00 GMT | Black Brant IX | Arecibo | NASA | AA-2 | NASA | Sub-orbital | Plasma research | 12 July 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 252 kilometres (157 mi) |
| 13 July, 17:41:40 GMT | Tsyklon-3 | Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2197 (Strela-3) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| Kosmos-2198 (Strela-3) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| Kosmos-2199 (Gonets-D) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| Kosmos-2200 (Strela-3) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| Kosmos-2201 (Gonets-D) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| Kosmos-2202 (Strela-3) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| 14 July, 22:02:00 GMT | Proton-K/DM-2 | LC-81/23, Baikonur | VKS | Gorizont-26 | MOM | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 24 July, 13:36 GMT | Black Brant 8C | Poker Flat | NASA | NASA | Sub-orbital | Plasma research | 24 July 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 340 kilometres (210 mi) | |
| 24 July, 14:26:00 GMT | Delta II 6925 | LC-17A, Cape Canaveral | McDonnell Douglas | Geotail | ISAS/NASA | HEO | Magnetosphere research | Still in orbit | Successful | Final flight of Delta II 6000-series |
| DUVE | NASA/UoC | LEO | Ultraviolet astronomy | 16 March 2003 | Successful | |||||
| 24 July, 19:40:00 GMT | Soyuz-U | LC-43/3, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2203 (Yantar-4K2) | MOM | LEO | Reconnaissance satellite | 22 September 1992 | Successful | |
| 27 July, 06:08:42 GMT | Soyuz-U2 | LC-1/5, Baikonur | VKS | Soyuz TM-15 | MOM | LEO, docked to Mir | Manned orbital flight | 1 February 1993 | Successful | |
| 28 July | UR-100NU | Baikonur | RVSN | SLI | RVSN | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 28 July 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 29 July | Trident D-5 | USS Maryland, ETR | US Navy | DASO-9 | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 29 July 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 30 July, 01:59:01 GMT | Proton-K/DM-2 | LC-81/23, Baikonur | VKS | Kosmos-2204 (GLONASS) | MOM | MEO | Navigation | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| Kosmos-2205 (GLONASS) | MOM | MEO | Navigation | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| Kosmos-2206 (GLONASS) | MOM | MEO | Navigation | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| 30 July, 11:00:00 GMT | Soyuz-U | LC-43/4, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2207 (Zenit-8) | MOM | LEO | Reconnaissance satellite | 13 August 1992 | Successful | |
| 31 July, 13:56:48 GMT | Space Shuttle Atlantis | LC-39B, Kennedy | USA | STS-46 | NASA | LEO | Manned orbital flight | 8 August 1992 | Successful | |
| TSS-1 | ASI | LEO | Technology demonstration | Failure | Tether jammed during deployment. Events 1416 - The Council of Constance, called by the Emperor Sigismund a supporter of Antipope John XXIII burns Jerome of Prague following Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. Arecibo (ah-re-SEE-boh is a municipality in the northern midwest coast of Puerto Rico and located by the Atlantic Ocean north of Utuado and Ciales The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1416 - The Council of Constance, called by the Emperor Sigismund a supporter of Antipope John XXIII burns Jerome of Prague following Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from The Dong-Feng 21 represents China's first solid-fuel land-based missile The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC ( also known as Base 25 (二十五基地) is a People's Republic of China space and defence launch facility A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is Assassinated 987 - Hugh Capet is elected Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Atmospheric physics is the application of Physics to the study of the atmosphere. Events 193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is Assassinated 987 - Hugh Capet is elected Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks The LGM-30 Minuteman is a United States nuclear Missile, a land-based Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a Spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Cosmos-3M (11K65M ( Космос-3М) is a Russian space Launch vehicle. Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 1508 - Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. Arecibo (ah-re-SEE-boh is a municipality in the northern midwest coast of Puerto Rico and located by the Atlantic Ocean north of Utuado and Ciales The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1508 - Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17 is a launch site at Merritt Island, Florida. The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing (45 SW Patrick AFB provides headquarters functions from the 45 SW a major airfield The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer ( EUVE) was a Space telescope for Ultraviolet (UV Astronomy, launched on June 7, 1992 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 53 - Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia 62 - Claudia Octavia commits Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. Arecibo (ah-re-SEE-boh is a municipality in the northern midwest coast of Puerto Rico and located by the Atlantic Ocean north of Utuado and Ciales The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 53 - Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia 62 - Claudia Octavia commits Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally River while leading an army to Jerusalem Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Atlas II was a member of the Atlas family of Launch vehicles which evolved from the successful Atlas missile program of the 1950s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 36 ( LC-36) was a launch complex at Cape Canaveral, Merritt Island, Florida. The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing (45 SW Patrick AFB provides headquarters functions from the 45 SW a major airfield Intelsat Ltd is the world’s largest commercial Satellite communications services provider A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses. White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile USS West Virginia in popular culture In Tom Clancy 's novel Debt of Honor, the West Virginia is one of several submarines A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile USS West Virginia in popular culture In Tom Clancy 's novel Debt of Honor, the West Virginia is one of several submarines A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile USS West Virginia in popular culture In Tom Clancy 's novel Debt of Honor, the West Virginia is one of several submarines A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile USS West Virginia in popular culture In Tom Clancy 's novel Debt of Honor, the West Virginia is one of several submarines A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1179 - The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Aries is the designation of an United States Rocket derived from the LGM-30 Minuteman missile which is used for the testing of anti-missile defense systems White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI was a proposal by US President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI was a proposal by US President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1179 - The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1180 - First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan 1305 - The Flemish Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. Arecibo (ah-re-SEE-boh is a municipality in the northern midwest coast of Puerto Rico and located by the Atlantic Ocean north of Utuado and Ciales The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects The ionosphere is the uppermost part of the atmosphere, distinguished because it is Ionized by solar radiation Events 1180 - First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan 1305 - The Flemish Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1180 - First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan 1305 - The Flemish Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Remote sensing is the small or large-scale acquisition of information of an object or phenomenon by the use of either recording or real-time sensing device(s that is not in physical Events 455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Events 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London NASA 's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System ( STS) is the Spacecraft currently used by the United States Space Shuttle Columbia ( NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102) was the first spaceworthy Space shuttle in NASA 's Launch Complex 39 (LC-39 is a Rocket launch site at the John F The John F Kennedy Space Center ( KSC) is the NASA Space vehicle launch facility and Launch Control Center ( Spaceport) on United Space Alliance (USA is spaceflight operations company USA is a joint venture equally owned by The Boeing Company (NYSEBA and Lockheed Martin Corporation STS-50 (US Microgravity Laboratory 1 was a United States Space Shuttle mission the 12th mission of the Columbia orbiter The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Spacelab was a reusable laboratory flown into space on the Space Shuttle. The European Space Agency ( ESA) established in 1975 is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 17 member The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the Usurper Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome is a launch site used by derivatives of the R-7 Semyorka missile The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Mir (Мир which can mean both Peace and World, and was the name given to peasant communes in pre-revolutionary Russia was a Soviet (and Mir (Мир which can mean both Peace and World, and was the name given to peasant communes in pre-revolutionary Russia was a Soviet (and Events 1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Musudan-ri is a Rocket launching site in North Korea. It lies in southern North Hamgyong province near the northern tip of the East Korea North Korea is the commonly used short form name for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or DPRK) a State located in East Asia, North Korea is the commonly used short form name for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or DPRK) a State located in East Asia, A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects "July 1st" redirects here For the Ayumi Hamasaki song see H (song. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a Spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects "July 1st" redirects here For the Ayumi Hamasaki song see H (song. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from "July 1st" redirects here For the Ayumi Hamasaki song see H (song. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Cosmos-3M (11K65M ( Космос-3М) is a Russian space Launch vehicle. Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Parus is a genus of Old World Birds in the tit family As defined here it contains the following species Genus Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 310 - Pope Miltiades is elected 626 - In fear of assassination Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. Arecibo (ah-re-SEE-boh is a municipality in the northern midwest coast of Puerto Rico and located by the Atlantic Ocean north of Utuado and Ciales The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 310 - Pope Miltiades is elected 626 - In fear of assassination Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 310 - Pope Miltiades is elected 626 - In fear of assassination Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Atlas II was a member of the Atlas family of Launch vehicles which evolved from the successful Atlas missile program of the 1950s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 36 ( LC-36) was a launch complex at Cape Canaveral, Merritt Island, Florida. The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing (45 SW Patrick AFB provides headquarters functions from the 45 SW a major airfield The Defense Satellite Communications System ( DSCS) provides the United States with military communications to support globally distributed military users A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Scout family of Rockets were Launch vehicles designed to place small satellites into Orbit around the Earth Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a Spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The Small Explorer program ( SMEX) is an effort within NASA to fund Space exploration missions that cost no more than $120 million The Explorer program was the United States 's first successful attempt to launch an artificial satellite. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Sun (Sol is the Star at the center of the Solar System. Events 324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. Sriharikota (Telugu శ్రీహరికోట also Sriharikote) is a Barrier island off the coast of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects The ionosphere is the uppermost part of the atmosphere, distinguished because it is Ionized by solar radiation Events 324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. Arecibo (ah-re-SEE-boh is a municipality in the northern midwest coast of Puerto Rico and located by the Atlantic Ocean north of Utuado and Ciales The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17 is a launch site at Merritt Island, Florida. The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing (45 SW Patrick AFB provides headquarters functions from the 45 SW a major airfield A GPS satellite is a Satellite used by the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS Medium Earth Orbit (MEO, sometimes called Intermediate Circular Orbit (ICO is the region of space around the Earth above low Earth orbit ( and below Geostationary orbit Events 939 - The Major Occultation or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi 1099 - First Crusade: 15000 Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London See also Molniya (rocket The Molniya-M (Молния meaning "lightning" designation 8K78M, was a Russian (previously Soviet Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Oko is a Russian (previously Soviet) Satellite system used to detect Missile launches A Molniya orbit is a type of Highly elliptical orbit with an Inclination of 63 Events 455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Ariane 4 was an Expendable launch system, designed by the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales and manufactured and marketed by its subsidiary Arianespace The Guiana Space Centre, or more commonly Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG is a French Spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana. Arianespace SA is a French company and was founded in 1980. They undertake the production operation and marketing of the Ariane 5 rocket launcher as part A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Eutelsat SA is a French -based satellite provider Providing coverage over the entire European continent as well as the Middle East Africa India and significant A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 1191 - Saladin 's garrison surrenders ending the two-year Siege of Acre. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. Arecibo (ah-re-SEE-boh is a municipality in the northern midwest coast of Puerto Rico and located by the Atlantic Ocean north of Utuado and Ciales The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1191 - Saladin 's garrison surrenders ending the two-year Siege of Acre. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1174 - William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Tsyklon-3, also known as Tsiklon-3, GRAU index 11K68 is a Soviet, and subsequently Ukrainian Orbital Carrier rocket Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Gonets ( Russian for Messenger) is a Russian civilian Low Earth orbit Communication satellite system Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Gonets ( Russian for Messenger) is a Russian civilian Low Earth orbit Communication satellite system Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father Philip II of France. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Proton rocket Block D ( Блок Д in Russian is the upper stage of USSR / Russia heavy Expendable launch systems used for the N1 rocket, Proton The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations Gorizont, (Горизонт Horizon) GRAU index 11F662 is a series of 35 Russian previously Soviet, Geosynchronous communication A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. The Poker Flat Research Range (PFRR is a launch facility and Rocket range for Sounding rockets in the U The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17 is a launch site at Merritt Island, Florida. The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing (45 SW Patrick AFB provides headquarters functions from the 45 SW a major airfield The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A High Earth Orbit is a geocentric orbit whose apogee lies above that of a geosynchronous orbit (35786 km A magnetosphere' is a highly magnetized region around and possessed by an Astronomical object. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The University of California ( UC) is a Public university system in the state of California. A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Ultraviolet astronomy is generally used to refer to observations at Ultraviolet wavelengths between approximately 10 and 320 nanometres Events 597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. The Yantar Special Economic Zone has been established in 1996 in the Kaliningrad Region of the Russian Federation A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 66 - Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica. 1236 - The Lithuanians Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Events 1214 - Battle of Bouvines: In France, Philip II of France defeats John of England. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations Crew Launched Anatoly Solovyev (3 Sergei Avdeyev (1 Michel Tognini (1 - France A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Mir (Мир which can mean both Peace and World, and was the name given to peasant communes in pre-revolutionary Russia was a Soviet (and Events 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Events 1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of Treason. The UR-100N is an Intercontinental ballistic missile in service with Russia. The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Strategic Rocket Forces of Russian Federation or RVSNRF ( Russian: Ракетные войска стратегического назначения Российской The Strategic Rocket Forces of Russian Federation or RVSNRF ( Russian: Ракетные войска стратегического назначения Российской A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of Treason. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1014 - Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile Symbology of USS Maryland Insignia Blazon – The shield features the arms of the state of Maryland which are historically derived from the quartered arms of the Calvert A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1014 - Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1419 - First Defenestration of Prague. 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Proton rocket Block D ( Блок Д in Russian is the upper stage of USSR / Russia heavy Expendable launch systems used for the N1 rocket, Proton The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Medium Earth Orbit (MEO, sometimes called Intermediate Circular Orbit (ICO is the region of space around the Earth above low Earth orbit ( and below Geostationary orbit For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Medium Earth Orbit (MEO, sometimes called Intermediate Circular Orbit (ICO is the region of space around the Earth above low Earth orbit ( and below Geostationary orbit For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Medium Earth Orbit (MEO, sometimes called Intermediate Circular Orbit (ICO is the region of space around the Earth above low Earth orbit ( and below Geostationary orbit Events 1419 - First Defenestration of Prague. 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation the start of the Maya calendar. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Events 30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian 's forces but most of his army subsequently Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London NASA 's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System ( STS) is the Spacecraft currently used by the United States Space Shuttle Atlantis ( Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-104 is one of the three currently operational orbiters in the Space Shuttle fleet of Launch Complex 39 (LC-39 is a Rocket launch site at the John F The John F Kennedy Space Center ( KSC) is the NASA Space vehicle launch facility and Launch Control Center ( Spaceport) on United Space Alliance (USA is spaceflight operations company USA is a joint venture equally owned by The Boeing Company (NYSEBA and Lockheed Martin Corporation STS-46 was a NASA Space shuttle mission launched in 1992 Crew Loren J The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 1220 - Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) A tether satellite is a Satellite connected to another by a thin cable called a Tether. The Italian Space Agency (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana ASI) was founded in 1988 to promote coordinate and conduct space activities in Italy A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Returned to Earth by Atlantis. | |||||
| EURECA | ESA | LEO | Microgravity and Solar research | 1 July 1993 | Successful | Returned to Earth by Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-57. The European Space Agency ( ESA) established in 1975 is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 17 member A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km "July 1st" redirects here For the Ayumi Hamasaki song see H (song. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) NASA 's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System ( STS) is the Spacecraft currently used by the United States Space Shuttle Endeavour ( Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105 is one of the three currently operational orbiters in the Space Shuttle fleet of STS-57 was a Shuttle-Spacehab mission of that launched 1993-06-21 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. | ||||
| July | Hwasong 6 | Syria | Syrian Air Force | Syrian Air Force | Sub-orbital | Test flight | Within an hour of launch | Successful | Apogee: 200 kilometres (120 mi) | |
| July | Hwasong 6 | Syria | Syrian Air Force | Syrian Air Force | Sub-orbital | Test flight | Within an hour of launch | Successful | Apogee: 200 kilometres (120 mi) | |
| 4 August | Trident D-5 | USS Tennessee, ETR | US Navy | CET | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 4 August 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 4 August | Trident D-5 | USS Tennessee, ETR | US Navy | CET | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 4 August 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 4 August | Trident D-5 | USS Tennessee, ETR | US Navy | CET | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 4 August 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 4 August | Trident D-5 | USS Tennessee, ETR | US Navy | CET | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 4 August 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 6 August, 19:30:59 GMT | Molniya-M | LC-43/3, Plesetsk | VKS | Molniya-1-84 | MOM | Molniya | Comsat | 4 April 2008 | Successful | |
| 9 August, 08:00 GMT | Long March 2D | LA-2B, JSLC | CALT | FSW-2-1 | CASC | LEO | Reconnaissance satellite | 1 September 1992 | Successful | |
| 10 August, 23:08:07 GMT | Ariane 4 (42P) | ELA-2, CSG | Arianespace | TOPEX-Poseidon | CNES/NASA | LEO | Oceanography | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| S80/T | CNES | LEO | Technology development | Still in orbit | Successful | |||||
| Kitsat-1 | KAIST | LEO | Technology development | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| 12 August, 05:44:01 GMT | Kosmos-3M | LC-132/1, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2208 (Strela-2M) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 13 August, 23:00 GMT | Long March 2E/Star-68F | LC-2, XSLC | CALT | Optus B1 | Optus | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 15 August, 22:18:32 GMT | Soyuz-U2 | LC-31/6, Baikonur | VKS | Progress M-14 | MOM | LEO, docked to Mir | Resupply Mir | 21 October 1992 | Successful | |
| 18 August | Prithvi | Balasore | IDRDL | IDRDL | Sub-orbital | Test flight | 18 August 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 100 kilometres (62 mi) | |
| 19 August, 10:20:00 GMT | Soyuz-U | LC-16/2, Plesetsk | VKS | Resurs-F-16 | MOM | LEO | Remote sensing | 4 September 1992 | Successful | |
| Pion-Germes 1 | MOM | LEO | Remote sensing | 25 September 1992 | Successful | |||||
| Pion-Germes 2 | MOM | LEO | Remote sensing | 24 September 1992 | Successful | |||||
| 19 August, 23:30 GMT | TR-1A | LA-T, Tanegashima | NASDA | NASDA | Sub-orbital | Microgravity research | 19 August 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 290 kilometres (180 mi) | |
| 21 August, 17:46 GMT | Nike-Orion | White Sands | NASA | NASA | Sub-orbital | Aeronomy | 21 August 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 140 kilometres (87 mi) | |
| 22 August, 22:40 GMT | Atlas I | LC-36B, Cape Canaveral | General Dynamics | Galaxy 1R | Hughes | Intended: GSO | Comsat | 22 August 1992 | Failure | Upper stage turbopump failed to start, destroyed by RSO |
| 24 August, 16:30 GMT | Black Brant IX | LC-36, White Sands | NASA | HRTS-8 | NASA/NRL | Sub-orbital | Solar research | 24 August 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 249 kilometres (155 mi) |
| 26 August, 15:10 GMT | Nike-Orion | White Sands | NASA | CWAS-25 | NASA | Sub-orbital | Aeronomy | 26 August 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 140 kilometres (87 mi) |
| 27 August, 18:30 GMT | Black Brant 8C | Wallops Island | NASA | NASA | Sub-orbital | Test flight | 27 August 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 198 kilometres (123 mi) | |
| 31 August, 10:41 GMT | Delta II 7925 | LC-17B, Cape Canaveral | McDonnell Douglas | Satcom C4 | GE Americom | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 1 September, 01:00 GMT | Nike-Orion | White Sands | NASA | CWAS-26 | NASA | Sub-orbital | Aeronomy | 1 September 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 140 kilometres (87 mi) |
| 3 September | Trident D-5 | USS Kentucky, ETR | US Navy | CET | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 3 September 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 3 September | Trident D-5 | USS Kentucky, ETR | US Navy | CET | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 3 September 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 3 September | Trident D-5 | USS Kentucky, ETR | US Navy | CET | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 3 September 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 3 September | Trident D-5 | USS Kentucky, ETR | US Navy | CET | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 3 September 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 9 September, 08:57:00 GMT | Delta II 7925 | LC-17A, Cape Canaveral | McDonnell Douglas | USA-84 (GPS IIA-15) | US Air Force | MEO | Navigation | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 10 September, 14:30 GMT | Black Brant 9CM1 | LC-36, White Sands | SSI | CONSORT-5 | UAH | Sub-orbital | Microgravity research | 10 September 1992 | Failure | Apogee: 235 kilometres (146 mi) |
| 10 September, 18:01:18 GMT | Proton-K/DM-2 | LC-81/23, Baikonur | VKS | Kosmos-2209 (Prognoz) | MOM | GSO | Missile defence | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 10 September, 23:04:00 GMT | Ariane 4 (44LP) | ELA-2, CSG | Arianespace | Hispasat 1A | Hispasat | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| Satcom C3 | GE Americom | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| 12 September, 14:23:00 GMT | Space Shuttle Endeavour | LC-39B, Kennedy | USA | STS-47 | NASA | LEO | Manned orbital flight | 20 September 1992 | Successful | 50th mission of the Space Shuttle programme |
| Spacelab-J | ESA/NASDA/NASA | LEO | Microgravity research | Successful | ||||||
| 16 September, 03:15 GMT | Peacekeeper | LF-05, Vandenberg AFB | US Air Force | US Air Force | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 16 September 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) | |
| 22 September, 16:10:00 GMT | Soyuz-U | LC-16/2, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2210 (Yantar-4K2) | MOM | LEO | Reconnaissance satellite | 20 November 1992 | Successful | |
| 25 September, 17:05:01 GMT | Commercial Titan III (34D) | LC-40, Cape Canaveral | Martin Marietta | Mars Observer | NASA | Indended: Areocentric Achieved: Heliocentric | Mars exploration | Unknown | Failure | Contact lost three days before orbit insersion. 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Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation the start of the Maya calendar. 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The Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC ( also known as Base 27 (二十七基地) is a People’s Republic of China Space vehicle launch facility SingTel Optus Pty Limited is the second largest Telecommunications company in Australia, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome is a launch site used by derivatives of the R-7 Semyorka missile The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Mir (Мир which can mean both Peace and World, and was the name given to peasant communes in pre-revolutionary Russia was a Soviet (and Mir (Мир which can mean both Peace and World, and was the name given to peasant communes in pre-revolutionary Russia was a Soviet (and Events 1512 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Events 293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica. Prithvi ( Sanskrit: pṛthvī, also pṛthivī) is the Hindu Earth and Mother Goddess. WikipediaWikiProject Indian cities for details --> Balasore (also known as Baleswar or Baleshwar) is a city in Orissa state of A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica. 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Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Remote sensing is the small or large-scale acquisition of information of an object or phenomenon by the use of either recording or real-time sensing device(s that is not in physical Events 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Remote sensing is the small or large-scale acquisition of information of an object or phenomenon by the use of either recording or real-time sensing device(s that is not in physical Events 303 - On a voyage preaching the Gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Remote sensing is the small or large-scale acquisition of information of an object or phenomenon by the use of either recording or real-time sensing device(s that is not in physical Events 622 - Prophet Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina. 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The, or JAXA, is Japan's national Aerospace agency JAXA was formed on October 1 2003 as an Independent Administrative Institution through the The, or JAXA, is Japan's national Aerospace agency JAXA was formed on October 1 2003 as an Independent Administrative Institution through the A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 43 BC - Octavian, later known as Augustus compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the De facto ruler of Japan. 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The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing (45 SW Patrick AFB provides headquarters functions from the 45 SW a major airfield The principal business of Hughes Communications Inc is the management and administration of its wholly owned subsidiary Hughes Network Systems, LLC A geosynchronous orbit is an Orbit around the Earth with an Orbital period matching the Earth's sidereal rotation period The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. 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White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects The Sun (Sol is the Star at the center of the Solar System. Events 49 BC - Julius Caesar 's General Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Atmospheric physics is the application of Physics to the study of the atmosphere. Events 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. Wallops Island is a 6 Square mile (155 Km²) island off the east coast of Virginia, part of the barrier islands that stretch along the Eastern seaboard The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1056 - Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill dying suddenly a few days later without children to succeed the Throne Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17 is a launch site at Merritt Island, Florida. The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing (45 SW Patrick AFB provides headquarters functions from the 45 SW a major airfield SES Americom is a major commercial satellite operator based in the United States. A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Atmospheric physics is the application of Physics to the study of the atmosphere. Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 36 BC - In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile Commanding Officers Blue Crew Captain Michael G Riegel, August 1989 - July 1992 Captain Robert D A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 36 BC - In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 36 BC - In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile Commanding Officers Blue Crew Captain Michael G Riegel, August 1989 - July 1992 Captain Robert D A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 36 BC - In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 36 BC - In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile Commanding Officers Blue Crew Captain Michael G Riegel, August 1989 - July 1992 Captain Robert D A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 36 BC - In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 36 BC - In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile Commanding Officers Blue Crew Captain Michael G Riegel, August 1989 - July 1992 Captain Robert D A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 36 BC - In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17 is a launch site at Merritt Island, Florida. The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing (45 SW Patrick AFB provides headquarters functions from the 45 SW a major airfield A GPS satellite is a Satellite used by the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS Medium Earth Orbit (MEO, sometimes called Intermediate Circular Orbit (ICO is the region of space around the Earth above low Earth orbit ( and below Geostationary orbit Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The University of Alabama in Huntsville (also known as UAH or UAHuntsville) is a state-supported public, Coeducational University A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Proton rocket Block D ( Блок Д in Russian is the upper stage of USSR / Russia heavy Expendable launch systems used for the N1 rocket, Proton The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Ariane 4 was an Expendable launch system, designed by the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales and manufactured and marketed by its subsidiary Arianespace The Guiana Space Centre, or more commonly Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG is a French Spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana. Arianespace SA is a French company and was founded in 1980. They undertake the production operation and marketing of the Ariane 5 rocket launcher as part Hispasat is a group of Spanish communication satellites. They were developed by the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (National Institute for Technical Aeronautics A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina SES Americom is a major commercial satellite operator based in the United States. A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London NASA 's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System ( STS) is the Spacecraft currently used by the United States Space Shuttle Endeavour ( Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105 is one of the three currently operational orbiters in the Space Shuttle fleet of Launch Complex 39 (LC-39 is a Rocket launch site at the John F The John F Kennedy Space Center ( KSC) is the NASA Space vehicle launch facility and Launch Control Center ( Spaceport) on United Space Alliance (USA is spaceflight operations company USA is a joint venture equally owned by The Boeing Company (NYSEBA and Lockheed Martin Corporation STS-47 Shuttle mission was the 50th Space Shuttle mission of the program. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 451 - The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) NASA 's Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System ( STS) is the United States government's current manned Launch Spacelab was a reusable laboratory flown into space on the Space Shuttle. The European Space Agency ( ESA) established in 1975 is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 17 member The, or JAXA, is Japan's national Aerospace agency JAXA was formed on October 1 2003 as an Independent Administrative Institution through the The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 1400 - Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a Spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1400 - Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 66 - Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica. 1236 - The Lithuanians Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. The Yantar Special Economic Zone has been established in 1996 in the Kaliningrad Region of the Russian Federation A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 284 - Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor. 762 - Bögü Khan of the Uyghurs, Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Events 303 - On a voyage preaching the Gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Titan 34D was an American rocket used to launch a number of satellites for mostly military applications Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 40 ( LC-40) was a launch pad at Merritt Island, Cape Canaveral, Florida The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing (45 SW Patrick AFB provides headquarters functions from the 45 SW a major airfield Martin Marietta Corporation was founded in 1961 through the Merger of The Martin Company and American-Marietta Corporation. Mars Observer, launched by NASA in September 25, 1992, was the first of the proposed Observer series of planetary missions and was designed The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program An areocentric orbit is an Orbit around the planet Mars. The Moon, by similarity is in a geocentric orbit around Earth A heliocentric orbit is an Orbit around the Sun. In our Solar System, all Planets Comets and Asteroids are in such orbits The exploration of Mars has been an important part of the Space exploration programs of the Soviet Union (later Russia) the United It is unclear whether the spacecraft entered Aerocentric orbit, remained in Heliocentric orbit, or exploded. |
| 28 September | Minuteman III | LF-26, Vandenberg AFB | US Air Force | GT-149GB | US Air Force | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 28 September 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) |
| 6 October, 06:20:05 GMT | Long March 2C (CZ-2C) | LA-2B, JSLC | CALT | FSW-1-4 | CASC | LEO | Reconnaissance satellite | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| Freja | SSC | LEO | Magnetosphere research | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| 8 October, 19:00:00 GMT | Soyuz-U | LC-43/4, Plesetsk | VKS | Foton-5 | MOM | LEO | Microgravity research | 24 October 1992 | Successful | |
| 12 October, 09:47 GMT | Delta II 7925 | LC-17B, Cape Canaveral | McDonnell Douglas | DFS-3 | Bundespost | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 14 October, 19:58:00 GMT | Molniya-M | LC-43/3, Plesetsk | VKS | Molniya-3-50L | MOM | Molniya | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 16 October | Castor-Orbus | Wake Island | Orbital | SDIO | Sub-orbital | Reentry Test | 16 October 1992 | Failure | Apogee: 500 kilometres (310 mi) | |
| 19 October | Trident D-5 | USS Maryland, ETR | US Navy | DASO-10 | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 19 October 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) |
| 20 October, 12:58:12 GMT | Tsyklon-3 | Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2211 (Strela-3) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| Kosmos-2212 (Strela-3) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| Kosmos-2213 (Strela-3) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| Kosmos-2214 (Strela-3) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| Kosmos-2215 (Strela-3) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| Kosmos-2216 (Strela-3) | MO RF | LEO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| 21 October, 10:21:22 GMT | Molniya-M | LC-16/2, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2217 (Oko) | MOM | Molniya | Missile defence | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 22 October, 17:09:40 GMT | Space Shuttle Columbia | LC-39B, Kennedy | USA | STS-52 | NASA | LEO | Manned orbital flight | 1 November 1992 | Successful | |
| USMP-1 | NASA | LEO | Microgravity research | Successful | ||||||
| CANEX-2 | CSA | LEO | Microgravity research | Successful | ||||||
| LAGEOS-2 | ASI | MEO | Geodesy research | Still in orbit | Successful | |||||
| IRIS | ASI | MEO | Geodesy research | Still in orbit | Successful | |||||
| 22 October | Aries | Wallops Island | SDIO | Orbus 1 (SPFE-3) | SDIO | Sub-orbital | Target | 22 October 1992 | Failure | Apogee: 20 kilometres (12 mi) |
| 25 October, 01:06 GMT | Minuteman IB | LF-03, Vandenberg AFB | US Air Force | AST-DT2 | US Air Force | Sub-orbital | Target | 25 October 1992 | Failure | Apogee: 100 kilometres (62 mi) |
| 27 October, 17:19:41 GMT | Soyuz-U2 | LC-31/6, Baikonur | VKS | Progress M-15 | MOM | LEO, docked to Mir | Resupply Mir | 7 February 1993 | Successful | |
| Mak-2 | MOM | LEO | Ionosphere research | 1 April 1993 | Successful | Deployed from Mir on 20 November 1992 | ||||
| Znamya-2 | MOM | LEO | Mirror experiment | 5 February 1993 | Successful | Deployed from Progress M-15 on 4 February 1993 | ||||
| 27 October, 18:30 GMT | Black Brant IX | LC-36, White Sands | NASA | CU-3 | NASA | Sub-orbital | Solar ultraviolet astronomy | 27 October 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 298 kilometres (185 mi) |
| 28 October, 00:15:00 GMT | Ariane 4 (42P) | ELA-2, CSG | Arianespace | Galaxy 7 | Hughes | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 29 October, 10:40:33 GMT | Kosmos-3M | LC-133/3, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2218 (Parus) | MO RF | LEO | Navigation | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 30 October, 14:59:00 GMT | Proton-K/DM-2 | LC-81/23, Baikonur | VKS | Ekran-M3 | MOM | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 4 November, 02:00 GMT | Minuteman III | LF-04, Vandenberg AFB | US Air Force | GT-150GM | US Air Force | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 4 November 1992 | Failure | Apogee: 100 kilometres (62 mi) |
| 8 November, 10:25 GMT | Maxus | Esrange | SSC/DLR | ESA | Sub-orbital | Microgravity research | 8 November 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 717 kilometres (446 mi) | |
| 10 November | Trident D-5 | USS Tennessee, ETR | US Navy | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 10 November 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) | |
| 10 November | Trident D-5 | USS Tennessee, ETR | US Navy | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 10 November 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) | |
| 10 November | Trident D-5 | USS Tennessee, ETR | US Navy | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 10 November 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) | |
| 10 November | Trident D-5 | USS Tennessee, ETR | US Navy | US Navy | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 10 November 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) | |
| 15 November, 21:45:01 GMT | Soyuz-U | LC-16/2, Plesetsk | VKS | Resurs-500 | MOM | LEO | Remote sensing | 22 November 1992 | Successful | |
| 17 November, 07:47 GMT | Zenit-2 | LC-45/1, Baikonur | VKS | Kosmos-2219 (Tseleina-2) | MO RF | LEO | ELINT | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 20 November, 15:29:59 GMT | Soyuz-U | LC-43/4, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2220 (Yantar-4K2) | MOM | LEO | Reconnaissance satellite | 18 January 1993 | Successful | |
| 21 November, 13:45 GMT | Scout G-1 | SLC-5, Vandenberg AFB | NASA | MSTI-1 | US Air Force/SDIO | LEO (SSO) | Technology demonstration | 18 July 1993 | Successful | |
| 22 November, 09:22 GMT | Skylark 7 | LA-S, Esrange | DLR | TEXUS-29 | DLR | Sub-orbital | Microgravity research | 22 November 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 230 kilometres (140 mi) |
| 22 November, 23:54:00 GMT | Delta II 7925 | LC-17A, Cape Canaveral | McDonnell Douglas | USA-85 (GPS IIA-16) | US Air Force | MEO | Navigation | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 24 November, 04:09:59 GMT | Tsyklon-3 | Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2221 (Tselina-D) | MO RF | LEO | ELINT | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 25 November, 12:18:54 GMT | Molniya-M | LC-43/3, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2222 (Oko) | MOM | Molniya | Missile defence | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 27 November, 13:10:00 GMT | Proton-K/DM-2 | LC-81/23, Baikonur | VKS | Gorizont-27 | MOM | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 28 November, 21:34 GMT | Titan IV (404A) | SLC-4E, Vandenberg AFB | US Air Force | USA-86 (KH-12-4) | US NRO | LEO (SSO) | Reconnaissance satellite | 5 June 2000 | Successful | |
| 1 December, 22:48:00 GMT | Ariane 4 (42P) | ELA-2, CSG | Arianespace | Superbird A1 | SCC | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 1 December | UR-100NU | Baikonur | RVSN | RVSN | Sub-orbital | Operational test flight | 1 December 1992 | Failure | ||
| 2 December, 01:57:00 GMT | Molniya-M | LC-43/3, Plesetsk | VKS | Molniya-3-56L | MOM | Molniya | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 2 December, 13:24:00 GMT | Space Shuttle Discovery | LC-39A, Kennedy | USA | STS-53 | NASA | LEO | Manned orbital flight | 9 December 1992 | Successful | |
| ODERACS-A | NASA | LEO | Calibration | Failure | Deployment cancelled. Events 48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. The LGM-30 Minuteman is a United States nuclear Missile, a land-based Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a Spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Long March 2C (CZ-2C is a derivative of the Long March 2 rocket family, an Expendable launch system operated by the People's Republic of China. A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Freyja (sometimes anglicized as Freya) is a major goddess in Norse Paganism, a subset of Germanic Paganism. The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC or Rymdbolaget, is a Swedish government owned company that was established in 1972 to develop and implement space A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km A magnetosphere' is a highly magnetized region around and possessed by an Astronomical object. Events 314 - Roman Emperor Licinius is defeated by his colleague Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, and loses Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 69 - Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus the commander of the Danube armies loyal to Vespasian, defeat Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Events 539 BC - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17 is a launch site at Merritt Island, Florida. The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing (45 SW Patrick AFB provides headquarters functions from the 45 SW a major airfield A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 1066 - Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill seven miles from Hastings, the forces Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London See also Molniya (rocket The Molniya-M (Молния meaning "lightning" designation 8K78M, was a Russian (previously Soviet Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations Molniya (Молния meaning "lightning" was a Military Communications satellite system used by the Soviet Union. A Molniya orbit is a type of Highly elliptical orbit with an Inclination of 63 The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a Coral atoll having a Coastline of 12 miles (19 kilometers in the North Pacific Ocean A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile Symbology of USS Maryland Insignia Blazon – The shield features the arms of the state of Maryland which are historically derived from the quartered arms of the Calvert A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Tsyklon-3, also known as Tsiklon-3, GRAU index 11K68 is a Soviet, and subsequently Ukrainian Orbital Carrier rocket Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Strela is a Russian (previously Soviet) military Communications satellite constellation operating in Low Earth orbit. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 1512 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London See also Molniya (rocket The Molniya-M (Молния meaning "lightning" designation 8K78M, was a Russian (previously Soviet Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Oko is a Russian (previously Soviet) Satellite system used to detect Missile launches A Molniya orbit is a type of Highly elliptical orbit with an Inclination of 63 Events 202 BC - Hannibal Barca, leader of the Carthaginians, is defeated by the Roman legions under Scipio Africanus Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London NASA 's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System ( STS) is the Spacecraft currently used by the United States Space Shuttle Columbia ( NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102) was the first spaceworthy Space shuttle in NASA 's Launch Complex 39 (LC-39 is a Rocket launch site at the John F The John F Kennedy Space Center ( KSC) is the NASA Space vehicle launch facility and Launch Control Center ( Spaceport) on United Space Alliance (USA is spaceflight operations company USA is a joint venture equally owned by The Boeing Company (NYSEBA and Lockheed Martin Corporation STS-52 was a Space Transportation System ( NASA Space Shuttle) mission launched 22 October 1992 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 996 - Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk Bishop of Freising which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Canadian Space Agency ( CSA or in French, l' Agence spatiale canadienne, ASC) is the Canadian government A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Italian Space Agency (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana ASI) was founded in 1988 to promote coordinate and conduct space activities in Italy Medium Earth Orbit (MEO, sometimes called Intermediate Circular Orbit (ICO is the region of space around the Earth above low Earth orbit ( and below Geostationary orbit Geodesy (dʒiːˈɒdɪsi also called geodetics, a branch of Earth sciences, is the scientific discipline that deals The Italian Space Agency (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana ASI) was founded in 1988 to promote coordinate and conduct space activities in Italy Medium Earth Orbit (MEO, sometimes called Intermediate Circular Orbit (ICO is the region of space around the Earth above low Earth orbit ( and below Geostationary orbit Geodesy (dʒiːˈɒdɪsi also called geodetics, a branch of Earth sciences, is the scientific discipline that deals Events 202 BC - Hannibal Barca, leader of the Carthaginians, is defeated by the Roman legions under Scipio Africanus Aries is the designation of an United States Rocket derived from the LGM-30 Minuteman missile which is used for the testing of anti-missile defense systems Wallops Island is a 6 Square mile (155 Km²) island off the east coast of Virginia, part of the barrier islands that stretch along the Eastern seaboard The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI was a proposal by US President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI was a proposal by US President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 202 BC - Hannibal Barca, leader of the Carthaginians, is defeated by the Roman legions under Scipio Africanus Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The LGM-30 Minuteman is a United States nuclear Missile, a land-based Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a Spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 312 - Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome is a launch site used by derivatives of the R-7 Semyorka missile The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Mir (Мир which can mean both Peace and World, and was the name given to peasant communes in pre-revolutionary Russia was a Soviet (and Mir (Мир which can mean both Peace and World, and was the name given to peasant communes in pre-revolutionary Russia was a Soviet (and Events 457 - Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1074 - Battle of Montesarchio in which the Prince Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The ionosphere is the uppermost part of the atmosphere, distinguished because it is Ionized by solar radiation Events 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Mir (Мир which can mean both Peace and World, and was the name given to peasant communes in pre-revolutionary Russia was a Soviet (and Events 284 - Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor. 762 - Bögü Khan of the Uyghurs, Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Events 211 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Events 312 - Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Ultraviolet astronomy is generally used to refer to observations at Ultraviolet wavelengths between approximately 10 and 320 nanometres Events 312 - Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 306 - Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor. 312 - Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Ariane 4 was an Expendable launch system, designed by the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales and manufactured and marketed by its subsidiary Arianespace The Guiana Space Centre, or more commonly Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG is a French Spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana. Arianespace SA is a French company and was founded in 1980. They undertake the production operation and marketing of the Ariane 5 rocket launcher as part The principal business of Hughes Communications Inc is the management and administration of its wholly owned subsidiary Hughes Network Systems, LLC A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 437 - Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Cosmos-3M (11K65M ( Космос-3М) is a Russian space Launch vehicle. Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Parus is a genus of Old World Birds in the tit family As defined here it contains the following species Genus Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 637 - Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Proton rocket Block D ( Блок Д in Russian is the upper stage of USSR / Russia heavy Expendable launch systems used for the N1 rocket, Proton The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Soviet animation studio see page Studio Ekran Ekran ( "Экран", "Screen") was a Soviet-Russian A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 1333 - Flood of the Arno River, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The LGM-30 Minuteman is a United States nuclear Missile, a land-based Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a Spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1333 - Flood of the Arno River, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1519 - Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great a Celebration Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Maxus is a Sounding rocket that are used in the MAXUS microgravity rocket programme a joint venture between Swedish Space Corporation and EADS Astrium Space Esrange is a rocket range and Research centre located outside the town of Kiruna in northern Sweden. The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC or Rymdbolaget, is a Swedish government owned company that was established in 1972 to develop and implement space The German Aerospace Centre (DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e The European Space Agency ( ESA) established in 1975 is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 17 member A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1519 - Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great a Celebration Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile Tennessee in fiction In Tom Clancy 's novel Debt of Honor, the Tennessee is one of several submarines sent to deal A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile Tennessee in fiction In Tom Clancy 's novel Debt of Honor, the Tennessee is one of several submarines sent to deal A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile Tennessee in fiction In Tom Clancy 's novel Debt of Honor, the Tennessee is one of several submarines sent to deal A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw This article contains technical information about the Trident ballistic missile Tennessee in fiction In Tom Clancy 's novel Debt of Honor, the Tennessee is one of several submarines sent to deal A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 655 - Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Remote sensing is the small or large-scale acquisition of information of an object or phenomenon by the use of either recording or real-time sensing device(s that is not in physical Events 498 - Kofi Aseidu- After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Events 284 - Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 284 - Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor. 762 - Bögü Khan of the Uyghurs, Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. The Yantar Special Economic Zone has been established in 1996 in the Kaliningrad Region of the Russian Federation A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 350 - Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Events 164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family restores the Temple in Jerusalem. Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Scout family of Rockets were Launch vehicles designed to place small satellites into Orbit around the Earth Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a Spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI was a proposal by US President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km This article is about a class of orbits about the Earth For a class of orbits around the sun see Heliosynchronous orbit. Events 390 BC - Roman - Gaulish Wars Battle of the Allia - a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Events 498 - Kofi Aseidu- After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Skylark was a British Sounding rocket design The Skylark was first launched in 1957 from Woomera, Australia and its Esrange is a rocket range and Research centre located outside the town of Kiruna in northern Sweden. TEXUS is a European microgravity research sounding rocket programme A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 498 - Kofi Aseidu- After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 498 - Kofi Aseidu- After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17 is a launch site at Merritt Island, Florida. The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing (45 SW Patrick AFB provides headquarters functions from the 45 SW a major airfield A GPS satellite is a Satellite used by the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS Medium Earth Orbit (MEO, sometimes called Intermediate Circular Orbit (ICO is the region of space around the Earth above low Earth orbit ( and below Geostationary orbit Events 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Tsyklon-3, also known as Tsiklon-3, GRAU index 11K68 is a Soviet, and subsequently Ukrainian Orbital Carrier rocket Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации exercises operational leadership of the armed A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 1034 - Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies Donnchad, the Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London See also Molniya (rocket The Molniya-M (Молния meaning "lightning" designation 8K78M, was a Russian (previously Soviet Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. Oko is a Russian (previously Soviet) Satellite system used to detect Missile launches A Molniya orbit is a type of Highly elliptical orbit with an Inclination of 63 Events 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Proton rocket Block D ( Блок Д in Russian is the upper stage of USSR / Russia heavy Expendable launch systems used for the N1 rocket, Proton The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations Gorizont, (Горизонт Horizon) GRAU index 11F662 is a series of 35 Russian previously Soviet, Geosynchronous communication A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina For the town in Argentina, see 28 de Noviembre. Events Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Titan IV family (including the IVA and IVB of Space boosters were used by the U Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a Spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. " KH-12 " is an unofficial designation of the successor to the KH-11 spy satellite The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The National Reconnaissance Office ( NRO) located in Chantilly A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km This article is about a class of orbits about the Earth For a class of orbits around the sun see Heliosynchronous orbit. Events 70 - Titus and his Roman Legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Events 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Ariane 4 was an Expendable launch system, designed by the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales and manufactured and marketed by its subsidiary Arianespace The Guiana Space Centre, or more commonly Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG is a French Spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana. Arianespace SA is a French company and was founded in 1980. They undertake the production operation and marketing of the Ariane 5 rocket launcher as part A geostationary orbit (GEO is a Geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth 's Equator (0° Latitude) with a period equal to the Earth's The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican The UR-100N is an Intercontinental ballistic missile in service with Russia. The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Strategic Rocket Forces of Russian Federation or RVSNRF ( Russian: Ракетные войска стратегического назначения Российской The Strategic Rocket Forces of Russian Federation or RVSNRF ( Russian: Ракетные войска стратегического назначения Российской A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London See also Molniya (rocket The Molniya-M (Молния meaning "lightning" designation 8K78M, was a Russian (previously Soviet Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations Molniya (Молния meaning "lightning" was a Military Communications satellite system used by the Soviet Union. A Molniya orbit is a type of Highly elliptical orbit with an Inclination of 63 The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London NASA 's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System ( STS) is the Spacecraft currently used by the United States Space Shuttle Discovery ( Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103 is one of the three currently operational orbiters in the Space Shuttle fleet of Launch Complex 39 (LC-39 is a Rocket launch site at the John F The John F Kennedy Space Center ( KSC) is the NASA Space vehicle launch facility and Launch Control Center ( Spaceport) on United Space Alliance (USA is spaceflight operations company USA is a joint venture equally owned by The Boeing Company (NYSEBA and Lockheed Martin Corporation STS-53 was a Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' mission in support of the United States Department of Defense. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Reflown on STS-60 | |||||
| ODERACS-B | NASA | LEO | Calibration | |||||||
| ODERACS-C | NASA | LEO | Calibration | |||||||
| ODERACS-D | NASA | LEO | Calibration | |||||||
| ODERACS-E | NASA | LEO | Calibration | |||||||
| ODERACS-F | NASA | LEO | Calibration | |||||||
| USA-89 (SDS-2-3) | US NRO | Molniya | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |||||
| 6 December, 16:00 GMT | Nike-Orion | White Sands | NASA | CWAS-27 | NASA | Sub-orbital | Aeronomy | 6 December 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 140 kilometres (87 mi) |
| 9 December, 00:00 GMT | Zyb | Submarine, Pacific Ocean | RVSN | Efir | RVSN | Sub-orbital | Technology demonstration | 9 December 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 500 kilometres (310 mi) |
| 9 December, 11:25:00 GMT | Soyuz-U | LC-1/5, Baikonur | VKS | Kosmos-2223 (Yantar-4KS1) | MOM | LEO | Reconnaissance satellite | 16 December 1993 | Successful | |
| 9 December | Black Brant 9CM1 | CE, Biscarosse | MATRA | POIVRE (VERT) | MATRA | Sub-orbital | Earth imaging | 9 December 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 300 kilometres (190 mi) |
| 11 December, 22:45 GMT | Nike-Orion | White Sands | NASA | CWAS-28 | NASA | Sub-orbital | Aeronomy | 11 December 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 140 kilometres (87 mi) |
| 15 December, 03:00 GMT | Black Brant IX | LC-36, White Sands | NASA | NASA/JHU | Sub-orbital | Ultraviolet astronomy | 15 December 1992 | Successful | Apogee: 302 kilometres (188 mi) | |
| 17 December, 12:45:00 GMT | Proton-K/DM-2 | LC200/39, Baikonur | VKS | Kosmos-2224 (Prognoz) | MOM | GEO | Missile defence | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 18 December, 22:16:00 GMT | Delta II 7925 | LC-17B, Cape Canaveral | McDonnell Douglas | USA-87 (GPS IIA-17) | US Air Force | MEO | Navigation | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 21 December, 11:21 GMT | Long March 2E | LC-2, XSLC | CALT | Optus B2 | Optus | Intended: GSO Achieved: LEO | Comsat | 29 June 1995 | Failure | Payload fairing collapsed during ascent. STS-60 was the first mission of the US / Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, which carried the first Russian cosmonaut Sergei K The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Satellite Data System ( SDS) is a system of United States military Communications satellites At least two generations have been used SDS-1 from July The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The National Reconnaissance Office ( NRO) located in Chantilly A Molniya orbit is a type of Highly elliptical orbit with an Inclination of 63 The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 1060 - Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary 1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Atmospheric physics is the application of Physics to the study of the atmosphere. Events 1060 - Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary 1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London A submarine is a Watercraft that can operate independently below water as distinct from a Submersible that has only limited underwater capability The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions The Strategic Rocket Forces of Russian Federation or RVSNRF ( Russian: Ракетные войска стратегического назначения Российской The Strategic Rocket Forces of Russian Federation or RVSNRF ( Russian: Ракетные войска стратегического назначения Российской A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. The Yantar Special Economic Zone has been established in 1996 in the Kaliningrad Region of the Russian Federation A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km Events 755 - An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Events 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. Biscarrosse is a town and commune in the Landes département of western France, located south west of Bordeaux (50 Mécanique Avion TRAction or Matra was a French company covering a wide range of activities mainly related to automobile Bicycles Aeronautics Mécanique Avion TRAction or Matra was a French company covering a wide range of activities mainly related to automobile Bicycles Aeronautics A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Events 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 359 - Honoratus, the first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Atmospheric physics is the application of Physics to the study of the atmosphere. Events 359 - Honoratus, the first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Black Brant is a Canadian -designed Sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg Manitoba. White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects Ultraviolet astronomy is generally used to refer to observations at Ultraviolet wavelengths between approximately 10 and 320 nanometres Events 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Celestial mechanics, an apsis, plural apsides (ˈæpsɨdɪːz is the point of greatest or least distance of the Elliptical orbit of an object from Events 546 - Gothic War (535–554: The Ostrogoths of King Totila Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Proton rocket Block D ( Блок Д in Russian is the upper stage of USSR / Russia heavy Expendable launch systems used for the N1 rocket, Proton The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром The Military Space Forces (VKS are the branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for military space operations For the Cosmos 1 solar sail &mdash not part of this series &mdash see Cosmos 1. A geosynchronous orbit is an Orbit around the Earth with an Orbital period matching the Earth's sidereal rotation period Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17 is a launch site at Merritt Island, Florida. The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing (45 SW Patrick AFB provides headquarters functions from the 45 SW a major airfield A GPS satellite is a Satellite used by the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS Medium Earth Orbit (MEO, sometimes called Intermediate Circular Orbit (ICO is the region of space around the Earth above low Earth orbit ( and below Geostationary orbit Events 69 - The end of the Year of the four emperors: Following Galba, Otho and Vitellius, Vespasian Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London The Long March 2E, also known as the Chang Zheng 2E, CZ-2E and LM-2E, was a Chinese Orbital Carrier rocket. The Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC ( also known as Base 27 (二十七基地) is a People’s Republic of China Space vehicle launch facility SingTel Optus Pty Limited is the second largest Telecommunications company in Australia, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications A geosynchronous orbit is an Orbit around the Earth with an Orbital period matching the Earth's sidereal rotation period A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km The Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT is a global Telecommunications company based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Rocket continued to orbit, deploying remains of payload and upper stage into low orbit |
| 22 December, 12:00:00 GMT | Soyuz-U | LC-31/6, Baikonur | VKS | Kosmos-2225 (Ortlets) | MOM | LEO | Reconnaissance satellite | 18 February 1993 | Successful | |
| 22 December, 12:36:00 GMT | Tsyklon-3 | LC-32/2, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2226 (Geo-IK) | MO RF | LEO | Geodesy | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 25 December, 05:56 GMT | Zenit-2 | LC-45/1, Baikonur | VKS | Kosmos-2227 (Tselina-2) | MO RF | LEO | ELINT | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 25 December, 20:07:59 GMT | Tsyklon-3 | Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2228 (Tselina-D) | MO RF | LEO | ELINT | Still in orbit | Successful so far | |
| 29 December, 13:30:01 GMT | Soyuz-U | LC-43/3, Plesetsk | VKS | Kosmos-2229 (Bion) | MOM | LEO | Biological research | 10 January 1993 | Successful |