List of space launches of the USSR in 1970 :
| date | Launch vehicle | Payload (Type) | Cosmodrome / Launch Complex | SCD / NSSDC ID | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 9 | Sunrise | Baikonur Sq. 31 | 04292 / 1970-001A | Success | |
| January 15 | Cosmos-2 | Plesetsk 133/1 | 04299 / 1970-004A | Success | |
| January 16th | Cosmos-2 | Kapustin Yar 86/4 | 04301 / 1970-005A | Success | |
| January 20th | Cosmos-2 | Plesetsk 133/1 | 04308 / 1970-006A | Success | |
| January 21 | Sunrise | Plesetsk 41/1 | 04315 / 1970-007A | Success | |
| January 30 | Cosmos-2 | Plesetsk 133/1 | Failure | ||
| February 6 | Proton-K / Block D | Baikonur 81/23 | Failure | ||
| February 10th | Sunrise | Plesetsk 41/1 | 04328 / 1970-010A | Success | |
| February 19th | Lightning-M | Plesetsk 43/4 | 04336 / 1970-013A | Success | |
| February 27 | Cosmos-2 | Plesetsk 133/1 | 04338 / 1970-014A | Success | |
| March 4th | Sunrise | Plesetsk 43/4 | 04340 / 1970-015A | Success | |
| March 13 | Sunrise | Plesetsk 43/4 | 04346 / 1970-018A | Success | |
| March 17 | Vostok-2M | Plesetsk 41/1 | 04349 / 1970-019A | Success | |
| March 18 | Cosmos-2 | Plesetsk 133/1 | 04351 / 1970-020A | Success | |
| March 27th | Sunrise | Plesetsk 41/1 | 04355 / 1970-022A | Success | |
| April 3 | Sunrise | Plesetsk 43/4 | 04357 / 1970-023A | Success | |
| April 7th | Cosmos-3M | Plesetsk 132/2 | 04360 / 1970-024A | Success | |
| April 8th | Sunrise | Baikonur Sq. 31 | 04364 / 1970-026A | Success | |
| April 11th | Cosmos-3M | Plesetsk 132/2 | 04369 / 1970-028A | Success | |
| April 15th | Sunrise | Plesetsk 41/1 | 04373 / 1970-030A | Success | |
| April 23 | Cosmos-2 | Plesetsk 133/1 | 04378 / 1970-033A | Success | |
| April 24th | Cosmos-2 | Kapustin Yar 86/4 | 04380 / 1970-035A | Success | |
| 25th of April | Cosmos-3M | Plesetsk 132/2 | 04383 / 1970-036A - 04390 / 1970-036H | Success | |
| April 28th | Vostok-2M | Plesetsk 41/1 | 04393 / 1970-037A | Success | |
| 12 May | Sunrise | Plesetsk 41/1 | 04401 / 1970-038A | Success | |
| May 20 | Sunrise | Baikonur Sq. 31 | 04403 / 1970-039A | Success | |
| 22nd of May | Cosmos-2 | Plesetsk 133/1 | Failure | ||
| June 1st | Union | Baikonur Sq. 31 | 04407 / 1970-041A | Success | |
| June 10th | Sunrise | Baikonur Sq. 31 | 04409 / 1970-042A | Success | |
| 12 June | Cosmos-2 | Kapustin Yar 86/4 | 04411 / 1970-043A | Success | |
| June 13th | Cosmos-2 | Plesetsk 133/1 | 04413 / 1970-044A | Success | |
| June 17 | Sunrise | Plesetsk 43/4 | 04415 / 1970-045A | Success | |
| June 23 | Vostok-2M | Plesetsk 41/1 | 04419 / 1970-047A | Success | |
| June 26th | Lightning-M | Plesetsk 43/4 | 04430 / 1970-049A | Success | |
| June 26th | Sunrise | Baikonur Sq. 31 | 04425 / 1970-050A | Success | |
| 27th of June | Cosmos-2 | Plesetsk 133/1 | 04427 / 1970-051A | Success | |
| 27th of June | Cosmos-3M | Plesetsk 132/1 | Failure | ||
| July 7th | Sunrise | Baikonur Sq. 31 | 04446 / 1970-052A | Success | |
| July 9th | Sunrise | Plesetsk 41/1 | 04455 / 1970-053A | Success | |
| 21 July | Sunrise | Plesetsk 43/4 | Failure | ||
| July 28th | R-36orb | Baikonur 191/66 | 04481 / 1970-056A | Success | |
| August 7 | Cosmos-2 | Kapustin Yar 86/4 | 04482 / 1970-057A | Success | |
| August 7 | Sunrise | Plesetsk 43/4 | 04484 / 1970-058A | Success | |
| 8 August | Proton-K / Block D | Baikonur 81/23 | Failure | ||
| August 10 | Cosmos-2 | Plesetsk 133/1 | 04487 / 1970-059A | Success | |
| August 17 | Lightning-M | Baikonur Sq. 31 | 04489 / 1970-060A | Success | |
| August 19 | Cosmos-2 | Plesetsk 133/1 | 04495 / 1970-063A | Success | |
| August 20 | Cosmos-3M | Plesetsk 132/1 | 04497 / 1970-064A | Success | |
| August 22 | Lightning-M | Baikonur Sq. 31 | 04501 / 1970-065A | Failure | |
| August 29 | Sunrise | Baikonur Sq. 31 | 04508 / 1970-068A | Success | |
| 8 September | Sunrise | Plesetsk 41/1 | 04524 / 1970-071A | Success | |
| 12-th of September | Proton-K / Block D | Baikonur 81/23 | 04527 / 1970-072A | Success | |
| 16 of September | Cosmos-2 | Plesetsk 133/1 | 04536 / 1970-073A | Success | |
| September 17th | Sunrise | Baikonur Sq. 31 | 04538 / 1970-074A | Success | |
| September 22nd | Sunrise | Plesetsk 41/1 | 04553 / 1970-075A | Success | |
| September 25th | R-36orb | Baikonur 191/66 | 04556 / 1970-076A | Success | |
| September 29th | Lightning-M | Plesetsk 43/4 | 04569 / 1970-077A | Success | |
| October 1st | Sunrise | Baikonur Sq. one | 04561 / 1970-078A | Success | |
| October 3rd | Cyclone 2 | Baikonur 90/19 | 04564 / 1970-079A | Success | |
| October 8th | Sunrise | Baikonur Sq. 31 | 04571 / 1970-080A | Success | |
| October 8th | Cosmos-2 | Plesetsk 133/1 | 04573 / 1970-081A | Success | |
| October 9th | Sunrise | Baikonur Sq. one | 04576 / 1970-082A | Success | |
| October 12th | Cosmos-3M | Plesetsk 132/1 | 04578 / 1970-083A | Success | |
| October 14 | Cosmos-2 | Kapustin Yar 86/4 | 04580 / 1970-084A | Success | |
| October 15th | Vostok-2M | Plesetsk 41/1 | 04583 / 1970-085A | Success | |
| October 16th | Cosmos-3M | Plesetsk 132/1 | 04588 / 1970-086A | Success | |
| The 20th of October | Cyclone 2 | Baikonur 90/19 | 04590 / 1970-087A | Success | |
| The 20th of October | Proton-K / Block D | Baikonur 81/23 | 04591 / 1970-088A | Success | |
| October 23 | Cyclone 2 | Baikonur 90/20 | 04594 / 1970-089A | Success | |
| October 30 | Cyclone 2 | Baikonur 90/20 | 04598 / 1970-091A | Success | |
| October 30 | Sunrise | Plesetsk 43/4 | 04599 / 1970-092A | Success | |
| 10th of November | Proton-K / Block D | Baikonur 81/23 | 04691 / 1970-095A | Success | |
| 11th of November | Sunrise | Baikonur Sq. 31 | 04695 / 1970-096A | Success | |
| November 17th | Cosmos-3M | Plesetsk 132/2 | 04713 / 1970-097A | Success | |
| November 24th | Soyuz-L | Baikonur Sq. 31 | 04760 / 1970-099A | Success | |
| November 24th | Cosmos-2 | Plesetsk 133/1 | 04762 / 1970-100A | Success | |
| November 27 | Lightning-M | Plesetsk 43/4 | 04779 / 1970-101A | Success | |
| December 2nd | Cosmos-3M | Plesetsk 132/2 | 04783 / 1970-102A | Success | |
| December 2nd | Proton-K / Block D | Baikonur 81/23 | 04786 / 1970-103A | Success | |
| December 3rd | Sunrise | Plesetsk 43/4 | 04787 / 1970-104A | Success | |
| December 10th | Sunrise | Plesetsk 41/1 | 04791 / 1970-105A | Success | |
| 12 December | Cosmos-3M | Plesetsk 132/2 | 04799 / 1970-108A | Success | |
| December 15th | Sunrise | Baikonur Sq. 31 | 04804 / 1970-110A | Success | |
| December 16th | Cosmos-3M | Plesetsk 132/2 | 04806 / 1970-111A | Success | |
| December 18th | Cosmos-2 | Plesetsk 133/1 | 04811 / 1970-112A | Success | |
| December 18th | Vostok-2M | Plesetsk 41/1 | 04813 / 1970-113A | Success | |
| December 22 | Cosmos-3M | Plesetsk 132/2 | Failure | ||
| December 25th | Lightning-M | Baikonur Sq. one | 04829 / 1970-114A | Success |
Content
Statistics
Number of launches: 88 Successful launches: 80
| Launch vehicle | Number of starts | Failures | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunrise | thirty | one | |
| Cosmos-2 | 20 | 2 | |
| Cosmos-3M | 12 | 2 | |
| Proton-k | 6 | 2 | |
| Lightning-M | 7 | one | |
| Vostok-2M | five | 0 | |
| Union | 2 | 0 | |
| Cyclone 2 | four | 0 | |
| R-36orb | 2 | 0 |
| Cosmodrome | Number of starts | Failures | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baikonur | thirty | 3 | |
| Plesetsk | 53 | five | |
| Kapustin Yar | five | 0 |
Other events
| date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 10th | One of the first Soviet cosmonauts Pavel Belyaev died in Moscow after an illness. |
| January 10th | A message was published on the signing in Havana (Cuba) of an agreement to provide the USSR with technical assistance to Cuba in the construction of a ground communications station using artificial Earth satellites. |
| February 9th | A resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR on the development of the long-term orbital station DOS-7K was issued. |
| April 15th | Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Kosygin sent a telegram to US President Richard Nixon in connection with the flight of the Apollo-13 spacecraft in an emergency. The telegram contains a proposal for help from the Soviet side in saving the astronauts. |
| April 18th | Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Podgorny sent a telegram to US President Richard Nixon in connection with the successful return to Earth of the crew of the Apollo-13 spacecraft. |
| June 19 | At 11:59 in the USSR, 75 kilometers west of the city of Karaganda, the descent vehicle of the Soyuz-9 spacecraft made a soft landing. The astronauts Andriyan Grigorievich Nikolaev and Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov returned to earth. The duration of the astronauts in space was 17 days 16 hours 58 minutes 55 seconds. Since during the flight the astronauts practically did not do physical exercises, after landing they had difficulties associated with the adaptation of the body to the living conditions on Earth. The astronauts moved with difficulty, dizziness was noted. A similar state was subsequently called the Nikolaev Effect. |
| September 13th | The flight path of the Soviet automatic interplanetary station Luna-16 was corrected, which ensured the station's exit to the calculated point of the near-moon space. |
| September 17th | The Soviet automatic interplanetary station " Luna-16 " put into orbit around the moon. The parameters of the selenocentric orbit are: the inclination of the orbit relative to the plane of the lunar equator - 70 degrees; circulation period - 119 minutes; the height above the surface of the moon (in perisulation and settling) is 110 kilometers. |
| September 20 | At 05:18, the Soviet automatic interplanetary station Luna-16 made a soft landing on the lunar surface in the area of the Sea of Plenty at coordinates 0 degrees 41 minutes south latitude and 56 degrees 18 minutes east longitudes. The deviation from the calculated landing point was 1.5 kilometers. |
| September 21st | At 07:43, the return vehicle of the Luna-16 automatic interplanetary station launched from the lunar surface. Immediately before the start, the lunar soil was taken, which in a special capsule was placed in the returned vehicle. |
| September 24th | The time is 05:26. On the territory of the USSR, 80 kilometers south-east of the city of Dzhezkazgan, the return vehicle of the Luna-16 automatic station made a soft landing. Samples of lunar soil taken in the area of the Sea of Plenty were delivered to Earth. The total mass of the soil column delivered by Luna-16 was 101 grams. |
| 2 October | The flight path of the Soviet automatic interplanetary station Venera-7 , launched on 08.17.70, was corrected. |
| October 3rd | A missile astrophysical observatory was launched from the territory of the USSR. The rocket observatory was delivered using a geophysical rocket to a height of about 500 kilometers. After completing the research program, the container with the observatory descended to Earth using a parachute system. |
| 22 of October | Time is 06:25. The correction of the flight path of the Soviet spacecraft " Probe-8 ", heading towards the moon. The removal of the ship from the Earth at the time of correction amounted to about 250 thousand kilometers. |
| October 24th | The Soviet spacecraft Zond-8 circled the moon, passing at a distance of about 1120 kilometers from its surface, and moved on to the trajectory of returning to Earth. |
| 27th October | The time is 13:55. In the Indian Ocean, 730 kilometers southeast of the Chagos archipelago, the descent module of the Zond-8 spacecraft was brought down. |
| November 12th | The correction of the flight path of the Soviet automatic interplanetary station " Luna-17 ". |
| November 14th | The correction of the flight path of the Soviet automatic interplanetary station " Luna-17 ". |
| 15th of November | The Soviet automatic interplanetary station " Luna-17 " put into orbit around the moon. The parameters of the selenocentric orbit were: the inclination of the orbit to the plane of the lunar equator - 141 degrees; circulation period - 116 minutes; the station’s height above the lunar surface (perisetalization and settling) is 85 kilometers. |
| November 17th | Time - 03:47 the Soviet automatic interplanetary station Luna-17 made a soft landing on the lunar surface in the region of the Sea of Rains at a point with coordinates 38 degrees 17 minutes north latitude and 35 degrees west longitude. The Lunokhod-1 self-propelled vehicle was delivered to the lunar surface. Two and a half hours after landing, Lunokhod-1 moved down the ramp from the landing platform and began to carry out a research and experiment program. |
| November 17th | The correction of the flight path of the Soviet automatic interplanetary station " Venera-7 ". |
| November 28 | From the Kapustin Yar launch site, the Vertical-1 geophysical rocket was launched. The launch was carried out as part of the Intercosmos program. At the head of the rocket was placed equipment manufactured in the USSR, Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The rocket reached an altitude of 487 kilometers. The descent was carried out using a parachute system. |
| December 15th | The lander of the Soviet automatic interplanetary station Venera-7 made a smooth descent by parachute in the atmosphere of Venus and reached the surface of the planet. Just before entering the atmosphere, the separation of the orbital compartment and the descent vehicle took place. The orbital compartment entered the atmosphere of Venus and burned out, and the descent vehicle began aerodynamic descent in the atmosphere of the planet. At an altitude of about 60 kilometers, a parachute system was deployed. After landing, the signals of the descent vehicle were received for another 23 minutes. |
See also
- List of space launches in 1970
- Timeline of manned spaceflight
Links
- Encyclopedia "Cosmonautics" A.Zheleznyakov. Space exploration chronicle
- Space launches and events in the USSR and Russia
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