Spacecraft launched in 1979

1979 Soviet crewed spaceflight to Salyut 6

crewed flight of the Soyuz programme

1979 Soviet crewed space flight to the Salyut 6 space station

uncrewed spacecraft

1979 Soviet test spaceflight

thumb|Scale model of the Hakucho at Noshiro, Akita|Noshiro City Children's Center Hakucho (also known as CORSA-b before launch; CORSA stands for Cosmic Radiation Satellite) was Japan's first X-ray astronomy satellite, developed by the Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science (then a division of the University of Tokyo). It was launched from the Kagoshima Space Center by the ISAS M-3C rocket on the M-3C-4 mission on February 21, 1979 and reentered the atmosphere on April 15, 1985.

space observatory

bion satellite

joint NASA and USGS satellite for studying Earth's magnetic field

P78-1 or Solwind was a United States satellite launched aboard an Atlas F rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on February 24, 1979. The satellite's mission was extended by several weeks, so that it operated until it was destroyed in orbit on September 13, 1985, to test the ASM-135 ASAT anti-satellite missile.

astronomical research satellite

Russian military early warning satellite

Russian military early warning satellite

CAT-1 (also Technological Capsule 1, also Obélix) was the first artificial Earth satellite launched by the European Space Agency on their own rocket, the Ariane 1. It was only intended to provide data on the launch characteristics of the new rocket and was only powered for 8 orbits.

NASA research satellite launched on November 20, 1975