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1987 · Soviet Space Program

Polyus

failureEnergiya | Polyus

Satellite used to test technologies for the Skif-D SDI program

Overview

Date / time: May 15, 1987 at 05:30 PM UTC
Outcome: failure
Mission: Polyus
Mission type: Government/Top Secret
Orbit achieved: Low Earth Orbit

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Payloads deployed · 4