langs: 23 июня [ru] / june 23 [en] / 23. juni [de] / 23 juin [fr] / 23 giugno [it] / 23 de junio [es]
days: june 20 / june 21 / june 22 / june 23 / june 24 / june 25 / june 26
Cosmonaut / Cosmonaut
#1 Donn F. Eisele
Donn Fulton Eisele (June 23, 1930 – December 2, 1987) ( Colonel USAF ) was a United States Air Force officer , test pilot , and later a NASA astronaut . He occupied the command module pilot seat during the flight of Apollo 7 in 1968. After retiring from both NASA and the Air Force in 1972, he became
- Donn Fulton Eisele ( june 23, 1930 – December 2, 1987) ( Colonel USAF ) was a United States Air Force officer , test pilot , and ...
- ... American astronaut (1930–1987) Donn F. Eisele Eisele in 1964 Born Donn Fulton Eisele ( 1930-06-23 ) june 23, 1930 Columbus, Ohio , U.S. Died December 2, 1987 (1987-12-02) (aged 57) Tokyo , Japan Resting place ...
- ... pollo 7 Mission insignia Retirement June 1, 1970 BIOGRAPHY EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION Eisele was born june 23, 1930, in Columbus, Ohio , to Herman Eugene Eisele (1899–1964) and Lee Ila June Eisele ( née Davisso ...
#2 Gordon Cooper
Leroy Gordon " Gordo " Cooper Jr. (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004) was an American aerospace engineer , test pilot , United States Air Force pilot , and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury , the first human space program of the United States. Cooper learned to fly as
- ... , and the two became good friends. They were involved in an accident on takeoff from Lowry Field on june 23, 1956, when the Lockheed T-33 Cooper was piloting suddenly lost power. He aborted the takeoff, but t ...
#3 Susan Helms
Susan Jane Helms (born February 26, 1958) is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant general and NASA astronaut . She was the commander, 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic); and commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Space at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California . [1] Lieutenant
- ... signia Rank Date Lieutenant General January 21, 2011 Major General August 2, 2009 Brigadier General june 23, 2006 Colonel February 1, 2000 Lieutenant Colonel March 1, 1994 Major October 1, 1991 Captain May 28 ...
#4 Richard Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) [2] is a British billionaire, entrepreneur, and business magnate . [3] [4] [5] In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group , which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields. [6] British entrepreneur and business magnate Not to be c
- ... in May 2018 that the contract would be terminated early by the government. VTEC ceased operating on 23 june 2018 and operations passed to a government-owned operator, London North Eastern Railway . [84] In N ...
#5 Vladimir Kovalyonok
Vladimir Vasiliyevich Kovalyonok ( Belarusian : Уладзі́мір Васі́льевіч Кавалёнак ; Russian : Влади́мир Васи́льевич Ковалёнок ; born 3 March 1942 in Beloye , Minsk Oblast , Belorussian SSR ) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut . Soviet cosmonaut This biography of a living person needs additional citations
- ... ogramme on July 5, 1967, and was commander of three missions. He retired from the cosmonaut team on june 23, 1984. From 1990 to 1992 he was a Director of the 30th Central Scientific Research Institute, Minist ...
#6 Julie Payette
Julie Payette CC CMM COM CQ CD ( French pronunciation: [ʒyli pajɛt] ; born October 20, 1963) is a Canadian engineer, scientist and former astronaut who served from 2017 to 2021 as Governor General of Canada , the 29th since Canadian Confederation . [1] [2] [3] 29th governor general of Canada, fo
- ... , Doctor of Science (DSc) [101] June 10, 2013 – University of Calgary , Doctor of Laws (LLD) [102] june 23, 2016 – British Columbia Institute of Technology , Doctor of Technology (DTech) [103] June 1, 2018 – ...
#7 Viktor Gorbatko
Viktor Vasilyevich Gorbatko ( Russian : Ви́ктор Васи́льевич Горбатко́ ; 3 December 1934 – 17 May 2017) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7 , Soyuz 24 , and Soyuz 37 missions. [2] Soviet cosmonaut (1934–2017) This article needs additional citations for verification . ( May 2017 ) Viktor Go
- ... Ukrainian town of Pavlograd , Dnepropetrovsk Region where he was taught to fly. Viktor graduated on 23 june 1956 as a lieutenant in the Soviet air force. [3] Gorbatko married his first wife Valentina Pavlovn ...
#8 Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov
Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov ( Bulgarian : Александър Панайотов Александров ) (born December 1, 1951) is a retired Bulgarian cosmonaut. He is the second Bulgarian to have flown to space, behind Georgi Ivanov . [1] [2] Bulgarian cosmonaut (born 1951) Not to be confused with Soviet cosmonaut Aleksa
- ... h Soviet cosmonaut Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov . Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov Aleksandrov on 23 june 2013. Born ( 1951-12-01 ) December 1, 1951 (age 70) Omurtag , Targovishte Oblast , Bulgaria Nationa ...
Museum / Museum
#1 USS Midway (CV-41)
USS Midway (CVB/CVA/CV-41) is an aircraft carrier , formerly of the United States Navy , the lead ship of her class . Commissioned 8 days after the end of World War II, Midway was the largest ship in the world until 1955, as well as the first U.S. aircraft carrier too big to transit the Panama Canal
- ... d in the Atlantic off the Virginia Capes during carrier suitability tests of the F9F-5 Panther . On 23 june , as Cdr. George Chamberlain Duncan attempted a landing in BuNo 125228 , a downdraft just aft of the ...
#2 Huffman Prairie
Huffman Prairie , also known as Huffman Prairie Flying Field or Huffman Field is part of Ohio 's Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park . The 84-acre (34-hectare) patch of rough pasture, near Fairborn , northeast of Dayton , is the place where the Wright brothers ( Wilbur and Orville ) un
- ... Patterson Field to become Wright-Patterson Air Force Base . Start of the first flight of Flyer III, june 23, 1905, Orville at the controls. The catapult tower, which they began using in September 1904, is at ...
Spacecraft / Spacecraft
#1 Max Valier (satellite)
Max Valier is a 15 kg (33 lb) X-ray telescopic satellite which was built in a collaboration by the Gewerbeoberschule "Max Valier" Bozen, the Gewerbeoberschule "Oskar von Miller" Meran and the Amateurastronomen "Max Valier". The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics provides the small X-ray teles
- ... n X-ray wavelength. It was launched with help of the OHB in Germany by an Indian PSLV-C38 rocket on june 23, 2017. [1] [2] Max Valier COSPAR ID 2017-036P SATCAT no. 42778
#2 Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope ( FGST , [3] also FGRST ), formerly called the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope ( GLAST ), is a space observatory being used to perform gamma-ray astronomy observations from low Earth orbit . Its main instrument is the Large Area Telescope (LAT), with which as
- ... es. [37] SOFTWARE MODIFICATIONS GLAST received some minor modifications to its computer software on 23 june 2008. LAT/GBM COMPUTERS OPERATIONAL Computers operating both the LAT and GBM and most of the LAT's ...
#3 NOAA-18
NOAA-18 , also known as NOAA-N before launch, was an operational, polar orbiting, weather satellite series (NOAA K-N) operated by the National Environmental Satellite Service (NESS) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA-18 also continued the series of Advanced TIROS-N (
- ... 15] MISSION APT transmission frequency is 137.9125 MHz (NOAA-18 changed frequencies with NOAA-19 on 23 june 2009). [16]
#4 NOAA-7
NOAA-7 , known as NOAA-C before launch, was an American operational weather satellite for use in the National Operational Environmental Satellite System (NOESS) and for the support of the Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP) during 1978-1984. The satellite design provided an economical and sta
- ... tronics Launch mass 1,418 kg (3,126 lb) [2] Dry mass 735 kg (1,620 lb) Start of mission Launch date 23 june 1981, 10:52:59 UTC [3] Rocket Atlas F - Star-37S-ISS (Atlas S/N 87F) Launch site Vandenberg , SLC-3 ...
- ... on System TIROS program ← NOAA-B NOAA-8 → LAUNCH The launch of NOAA-7 took place at 10:52:59 UTC on 23 june 1981 from Space Launch Complex 3W (SLC-3W) at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California . NOAA-7 ...
#5 InflateSail
InflateSail was a 3U CubeSat launched on PSLV C38 on 23 June 2017 into a 505 km polar Sun-synchronous orbit . It carried a 1 m long inflatable rigidizable mast, and a 10 m 2 drag-deorbiting sail. Its primary aim was to demonstrate the effectiveness of drag based deorbiting from low Earth orbit (LEO)
- InflateSail was a 3U CubeSat launched on PSLV C38 on 23 june 2017 into a 505 km polar Sun-synchronous orbit . It carried a 1 m long inflatable rigidizable mast, ...
- ... anufacturer Surrey Space Centre [1] Launch mass 3.2 kilograms (7.1 lb) Start of mission Launch date 23 june 2017, 03:59 ( 2017-06-23UTC03:59Z ) UTC Rocket PSLV-C38 Launch site Satish Dhawan Space Centre Depl ...
- ... ( 2017-06-23UTC03:59Z ) UTC Rocket PSLV-C38 Launch site Satish Dhawan Space Centre Deployment date 23 june 2017, 04:22 ( 2017-06-23UTC04:22Z ) UTC End of mission Decay date 3 September 2017 [2] Orbital para ...
- ... Sail was one of 8 QB50 satellites on this launch. PSLV-C38 lifted off at 09:29 (IST)/03:59 (UTC) on 23 june 2017 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India. InflateSail was ejected into a 518x494km orbit appro ...
#6 LituanicaSAT-2
LituanicaSAT-2 is a 3U Lithuanian CubeSat satellite launched on a polar satellite launch vehicle . [1] This mission is led by Vilnius University in cooperation with NanoAvionics and is a part of the international "QB50" mission. LituanicaSAT-2 is an in-orbit technology demonstration mission during w
- ... avionics .com /lituanicasat-2 / Mission duration 3-15 months (planned) Start of mission Launch date 23 june 2017 Rocket PSLV Launch site Sriharikota Orbital parameters Reference system Geocentric Regime Low ...
- ... aSAT-2 parts were 3D-printed using special materials approved for aerospace industry. [6] LAUNCH On 23 june 2017, the satellite was launched into sun-synchronous orbit via PSLV . The propulsion tests were su ...
#7 ICESat
ICESat ( Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite ) was a NASA satellite mission for measuring ice sheet mass balance , cloud and aerosol heights, as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics. It operated as part of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS). ICESat was launched 13 January 200
- ... 2009, and following attempts to restart it, the satellite was retired in February 2010. [5] Between 23 june 2010 and 14 July 2010, the spacecraft was maneuvered into a lower orbit in order to speed up orbita ...
#8 Kosmos 33
Kosmos 33 ( Russian : Космос 33 meaning Cosmos 33 ) or Zenit-2 No.20 was a Soviet , first generation, low resolution, optical film-return reconnaissance satellite launched in 1964. A Zenit-2 spacecraft, Kosmos 33 was the nineteenth of eighty-one such satellites to be launched [3] and had a mass of 4
- ... ies Spacecraft type Zenit-2 Manufacturer OKB-1 Launch mass 4730 kg [1] Start of mission Launch date 23 june 1964, 10:19:00 GMT Rocket Vostok-2 s/n G15001-05 Launch site Baikonur , Site 31/6 Contractor OKB-1 ...
- ... ow Earth Perigee altitude 209 km Apogee altitude 293 km Inclination 65.0° Period 89.4 minutes Epoch 23 june 1964 Kosmos 33 was launched by a Vostok-2 rocket, serial number G15001-05, [4] flying from Site 31/ ...
- ... 01-05, [4] flying from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome . The launch took place at 10:19 GMT on 23 june 1964, [5] and following its successful arrival in orbit the spacecraft received its Kosmos designat ...
- ... he Satellite Catalog Number 00816. [6] Kosmos 33 was operated in a low Earth orbit ; at an epoch of 23 june 1964 it had a perigee of 209 kilometres (130 mi) , an apogee of 293 kilometres (182 mi) , inclinati ...
#9 Aalto-1
Aalto-1 is a Finnish research nanosatellite , created by students of Aalto University . Based on the CubeSat architecture, it was originally scheduled to be launched in 2013, it was launched on 23 June 2017. It is Finland's first student satellite project and indigenously-produced satellite. [1] As
- ... on the CubeSat architecture, it was originally scheduled to be launched in 2013, it was launched on 23 june 2017. It is Finland's first student satellite project and indigenously-produced satellite. [1] As o ...
- ... 8 lb) Dimensions 10 × 10 × 34 cm (3.9 × 3.9 × 13.4 in) Power 4.8 watts Start of mission Launch date 23 june 2017, 03:59 UTC Rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle ( PSLV-C38 ) Launch site Satish Dhawan Space ...
- ... he Falcon 9 in 2015 and 2016. The launch was removed from the Falcon 9, and Aalto-1 was launched on 23 june 2017 by PSLV-C38 launch vehicle from India .
#10 STS-8
STS-8 was the eighth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the third flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger . It launched on August 30, 1983, and landed on September 5, 1983, conducting the first night launch and night landing of the Space Shuttle program . It also carried the first African-American astron
- ... m . The boosters were stacked on June 20, 1983, and the external tank (ET) mated to the assembly on june 23, 1983. Challenger arrived at Kennedy Space Center on June 29, 1983, and was transferred to the Orbit ...
#11 Telstar
Telstar is the name of various communications satellites . The first two Telstar satellites were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 launched on top of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962. It successfully relayed through space the first television pictures, telephone calls, and telegraph i
- ... ale, Telstar 8 was still under construction by Space Systems/Loral , and it was finally launched on june 23, 2005, by Sea Launch . Telstar 18 was launched in June 2004 by sea launch. The upper stage of the ro ...
- ... 25, 1999 Ariane 44LP Kourou ELA-2 127° W SSL 1300 3,790 kg (8,360 lb) Telstar 8 Space Systems/Loral june 23, 2005 Zenit-3SL Sea Launch 89° W SSL 1300 S 5,493 kg (12,110 lb) Telstar 9 (not launched) Space Syst ...
#12 Chollian
Chollian , ( Korean : 천리안, lit. Thousand Li View , clairvoyance) [2] also known as Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite 1 [3] ( COMS-1 ), was a South Korean satellite which was launched on 26 June 2010 and began operations on 1 April 2011. It was operated by the Korea Aerospace Research
- ... m ELA-3 at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou , French Guiana . The first launch attempt occurred on 23 june 2010; the launch was scrubbed due to a problem with one of the rocket's subsystems. [5] A subsequen ...
#13 STS-88
STS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour , and took the first American module, the Unity node , to the station. [2] First Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station STS-88 Endeavour ' s Canadarm positio
- ... to orbit the Earth unpiloted. [13] MISSION TIMELINE LAUNCH PREPARATIONS At 12:15 am EST on Monday, 23 june 1997, an Air Force C-5 air cargo plane arrived at the Shuttle Landing Facility carrying Unity (Node ...
#14 T12 (satellite)
T12 , formerly known as D12 , is a Boeing model 702 satellite built by the Boeing Satellite Development Center . It was launched on December 29, 2009 and became operational on May 19, 2010. It is used by DirecTV to provide additional high definition channels and Video on demand content, as well as 3
- ... s. [16] It also carries 3DTV channels. DirecTV began adding new HD channels on May 19 and continued june 23 and later in the summer. DirecTV added the first 3D channel to T12, ESPN 3D , on June 11, and new ch ...
#15 RAPIS-1
RAPIS-1 ( RAPid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite 1 ) is a satellite launched on 18 January 2019 [3] which for over a year was used to test seven technology demonstration projects. RAPIS-1 was developed and operated by Axelspace Corporation, under the coordination of the Japanese space agen
- ... 0:20 ( 2019-01-18UTC00:50:20Z ) UTC Rocket Epsilon Launch site Uchinoura End of mission Deactivated 23 june 2020 ( 2020-06-24Z ) [2] Orbital parameters Reference system Geocentric Regime Sun-synchronous OVER ...
#16 Amazonas 1
Amazonas 1 or Hispasat 55W-1 was a communications satellite based on the Eurostar 3000 satellite bus and owned by satellites operator Hispasat , based in Madrid , Spain. It was launched on 5 August 2004, with a launch mass of 4,5 ton, on a Proton-M Briz-M launcher to be located in the 61º W geosta
- ... oton-M Briz-M Launch site Baikonur , Kazakhstan End of mission Disposal Graveyard orbit Deactivated 23 june 2017 ( 2017-06-24 ) Orbital parameters Reference system Geocentric Regime Geostationary Transponder ...
- ... renamed as Hispasat 55W-1. Finally, the satellite was moved to a graveyard orbit and deactivated on 23 june 2017. [3] [4]
#17 Progress M-11M
Progress M-11M ( Russian : Прогресс М-11М ), identified by NASA as Progress 43P , is a Progress spacecraft which was launched on 21 June 2011 to resupply the International Space Station . [2] It was the eleventh Progress-M 11F615A60 spacecraft to be launched. The spacecraft is manufactured by RKK En
- ... , NASA and the Japanese Space Agency, ( JAXA ). Progress M-11M Progress M-11M approaches the ISS on 23 june 2011. Mission type ISS resupply Operator Roskosmos COSPAR ID 2011-027A SATCAT no. 37679 Mission dur ...
- ... ow Earth Inclination 51.6° Epoch 21 June 2011 Docking with ISS Docking port Zvezda aft Docking date 23 june 2011, 16:37 UTC Undocking date 23 August 2011 Time docked 61 days Cargo Mass 2673 kg Pressurised 19 ...
- ... . DOCKING Progress M-11M docked with the Zvezda service module of the Space Station at 16:37 UTC on 23 june 2011. The docking occurred 394 km above eastern Kazakhstan and under monitoring of the mission cont ...
#18 Progress 26
Progress 26 ( Russian : Прогресс 26 ) was a Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in April 1986 to resupply the Mir space station. Progress 26 A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft Mission type Mir resupply COSPAR ID 1986-032A SATCAT no. 16687 [1] Spacecraft properties Spacecraft Progr
- ... 1] Rocket Soyuz-U2 [2] Launch site Baikonur , Site 1/5 End of mission Disposal Deorbited Decay date 23 june 1986, 18:41:01 UTC [3] Orbital parameters Reference system Geocentric Regime Low Earth Perigee alti ...
- ... :06 UTC, and was undocked on 22 June 1986 at 18:25:00 UTC. [3] [5] DECAY It remained in orbit until 23 june 1986, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 18:41:01 UTC. [3] [5] SEE ALSO Spacefligh ...
#19 STS-135
STS-135 ( ISS assembly flight ULF7 ) [4] was the 135th and final mission of the American Space Shuttle program . [5] [6] It used the orbiter Atlantis and hardware originally processed for the STS-335 contingency mission, which was not flown. STS-135 launched on 8 July 2011, and landed on 21 July 201
- ... or the astronauts to escape the area. They also boarded Atlantis for a full countdown simulation on 23 june . LAUNCH ATTEMPTS Attempt Planned Result Turnaround Reason Decision point Weather go (%) Notes 1 8 J ...
#20 Soyuz 18
Soyuz 18 ( Russian : Союз 18 , Union 18 ) was a 1975 Soviet crewed mission to Salyut 4 , the second and final crew to man the space station . Pyotr Klimuk and Vitaly Sevastyanov set a new Soviet space endurance record of 63 days and the mark for most people in space simultaneously (seven) was tied d
- ... n varying the work schedule were carried out. [4] Extensive medical experiments were carried out on 23 june 1975, as the crew surpassed the Soviet space endurance record of 29 days, set by Soyuz 17 , the Sal ...