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Spacecraft Inventories and Descriptions
Launch 229
Spacecraft 1st Launch Vehicle Mission
Sputnik 4 Oct 1957 Type A 1 st artificial satellite (Soviet).
SRATS (Solar 24 Feb 1975 M-3C-2 Japanese solar radiation experiment.
Radiation and
Thermospheric
Structure) satellite
Starlette 6 Feb 1975 Diamant French geodetic satellite.
B-P4
STW 8 Apr 1984 CZ-3 1st geostationary Chinese
communications satellite.
S ymphonie 19 Dec 1974 Thor Delta FrencNW. German
telecommunications
satellite.
TDFRV-SAT 1987 Ariane FrencNW. German direct TV.
Telesat 4 Aug 1984 Ariane French telecommunications.
Tele-X 1988 Ariane Scandinavian direct TV/data.
TenmdAstro 20 Feb 1983 M-3s-3 Japanese X-ray observations.
TOPEX (The Ocean 1991 Ariane U.S./French ocean altimetry.
Topography
Experiment) satellite
Tournesol/Aura 15 Apr 1971 Diamant B French solar radiation experiments.
UME/ISS (Ionospheric 29 Feb 1976 N-1 Japanese ionospheric experiments.
Sounding Satellite)
Viking 22 Feb 1986 Ariane Swedish space plasma experiments.
YudBSE 8 Apr 1978 Delta Japanese direct TV broadcast.
(Broadcasting
Satellite Experiment)