1970 in spaceflight
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[edit] Launches
This is a list of spaceflights launched in 1970.
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| Launch Date/Time | Rocket | Launch Site |
Launch Contractor | Payload | Operator | Orbit | Mission/ Function |
Re-Entry/ Destruction |
Outcome | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 3 21:15 GMT |
Black Arrow | Woomera | RAE | (none) | N/A | N/A | Test LV | N/A | Successful | |
| April 11 19:13 GMT |
Saturn V (C-5) | LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center | NASA | Apollo 13 CSM Odyssey | NASA | Intended: Lunar orbit Actual: Lunar free return |
Manned Lunar orbit. | April 15, 1970 | Failure | Explosion in Service Module crippled spacecraft, resulting in mission abort. |
| Apollo 13 LM Aquarius | NASA | Intended: Lunar landing Actual: Lunar free return |
Manned lunar landing | April 15, 1970 | Failure | Mission aborted due to CSM malfunction. LM used to help bring crew back to Earth. | ||||
| April 24 | Long March 1 Rocket | North West Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center | PRC | Dong Fang Hong I | PRC | LEO | Test satellite | Unknown | Successful | First satellite launched by China |
| June 1 19:00 GMT |
Soyuz (R-7/A-2) |
LC-1, Baikonur | RVSN | Soyuz 9 2 Cosmonauts |
RVSN | LEO | Manned Orbital Spaceflight | June 19, 1970 11:58 GMT |
Successful | Longest Manned flight involving only one spacecraft. (As of 09/06/06) |
| June 1 19:00 GMT |
Black Arrow | Woomera | RAE | Orba | RAE | LEO | Micrometeoroid detection satellite | June 19, 1970 11:58 GMT |
Failure | First British attempt to launch a satellite. Failed to reach orbit after premature 2nd stage cutout. |
| December 12 10:54 GMT |
Scout B | San Marco mobile range, Kenya | CRA | Uhuru | NASA | LEO | X-ray astronomy | Still in orbit | Successful | First satellite dedicated to X-ray astronomy. |
[edit] Deep Space Rendez-vous in 1970
- April 15 — Apollo 13 lunar flyby at 254 km (sample return mission)
- September 20 — Luna 16, 100g from Mare Fecunditatis (sample return mission)
- October 24 — Zond 8 circumlunar flight of the Moon (1,110 km)
- November 17 — Luna 17 delivered Lunokhod 1 at Mare Imbrium
- December 15 — Venera 7 atmospheric probe worked for 23 min on the Venerian surface
[edit] References
- Encyclopedia Astronautica
- Gunter's Space Page - Chronology of Space Launches
- JAXA
- Jonathan's Space Report (SatCat.txt and Launchlog.txt)
- Mission Set Database (NASA GFC)
- NASA
- Orbital Report News Agency's Launch Logs
- Space Calander (NASA JPL)
- Southwest Space Archive
- SPACE.com Launch Forecast
- SpaceFlightNow
- Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive
- U.S. Space Objects Registry
| Preceded by 1969 |
Timeline of spaceflight 1970 |
Succeeded by 1971 |
