January 24. "Tsikada" civilian navigation satellite. Positioned in plane 13 of constellation. Maritime navigation. Signals at 150,00 MHz and 400.00 MHz."Astrid" (Sweden) auroral plasma and auroral imaging satellite, FAISAT (USA) store/forward communications satellite. January 24, Xichang (China). "Apstar 2" communications satellite failure. Shortcomings in the guidance system lead to the vehicle not anticipating the true effects of horizontal wind-shear once the mountains surrounding the launch site were cleared. This caused the nose fairing to collapse and the spacecraft to be destroyed. Because the "Apstar 2" failure happened a few seconds later than Optus, the consequences were catastrophic. The vehicle was destroyed, and the falling wreckage landed on a village down-range of the launch site, killing at least 20 and perhaps as many as 120 people.  Febrary 16. "Foton 10". 234 orbits. Carried Russian, French, German micro-gravity experiments. Landed in Russia Mar 3 1985. March 2. "Kosmos 2306" calibration satellite. Released 25 "Romb" radar calibration subsatellites. Reentered on October 30, 2000.  March 22. "Kosmos 2310" military navigation satellite. Perigee: 980 km. Apogee: 1,010 km. Inclination: 82.9 deg. Period: 105.0 min. March 22. "Kosmos 2311" high resolution photo reconnaissance satellite "Yantar-4K1"; returned film in two small SpK capsules during the mission and with the main capsule at completion of the mission. March 28. Three satellites were lost when the "Start" launch vehicle fell in the Sea of Okhotsk. The five-stage "Start" launch vehicle, took off from Plesetsk on March 28 1995.  A four stage "Start-1" variant successfully placed a test satellite in orbit in March 1993. This time, although the basic four stages worked fine, the new fifth stage failed and the payloads did not reach orbit. The two commercial payloads on the "Start" were "Gurwin-1" and "UNAMSAT".  The "Start" also carried a prototype satellite, the EKA (Eksperimental'niy Kosmicheskiy Apparat). "Gurwin-1", also known as "Techsat", was built by the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel. The 50 kg satellite carried a CCD camera, a radiation detector, an ozone monitor, and an amateur radio packet BBS as well as satellite technology tests. "UNAMSAT" was an AMSAT Microsat class amateur radio satellite built by UNAM, the Autonomous University of Mexico.  May 24. "Kosmos 2312"  "Oko" early warning satellite.  June 28. "Kosmos 2314" high resolution photo reconnaissance satellite. June 30. Cosmonaut Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi dies at age of 74. July 5. "Kosmos 2315" civilian navigation satellite "Tsikada". July 20. "Progress M-28" unmanned resupply vessel to "Mir". Docked with Mir's front port on 22 Jul 1995 04:39:37 GMT. Undocked on 4 Sep 1995 05:09:53 GMT. Destroyed in reentry on 4 Sep 1995 08:58:55 GMT. Total free-flight time 2.22 days. Total docked time 44.02 days. August 2. "Interbol 1" particles and fields research satellite. Paired with "Magion 4" subsatellite.  August 9. "Molniya-3-47" communication satellite. Voice and TV coverage.  August 31. "Sich 1" oceanographic remote sensing satellite; carried FASat-Alfa microsat for Chile that failed to deploy. Chile's first satellite built through a technology transfer program with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. Carried store and forward and Earth observation payloads.  September 26. "Resurs F2 N.10" Natural resources; photo capsule recovered in Russia on 10/26/95. October 6. "Kosmos 2321" military navigation satellite "Parus" failed to reach desired orbit.