Tuesday, January 5, 1971

Corona 86

 1964-061A


CORONA 86 was launched on 1964 Oct 5 with a KH-4A payload. Mission 1011-1 was recovered on around Oct 9 after 85 orbits, with imagery of the USSR, China, Cuba and Zaire, but the SRV for Mission 1011-2 was not ejected; normal and lifeboat systems both failed. The inter-SRV fairing was confirmed to have ejected, but the SRV remained attached to Agena 1170, which reentered on Oct 26.

Mass of CORONA 86 was 1620 kg.


KH-4A Mission 1011 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1964 Oct 5  2150:14  Launch by TAT Agena D  V 75-3 Pad 4 
 2151:19  Castor sep (T+1:05) 
 2152:46  Thor MECO (T+2:32) 
 2153:00  Thor VECO (T+2:41) 
 2153:07  Thor sep (T+2:48) 
 2153:12  Agena burn (T+2:53) 
 2157:11  Agena MECO (T+6:57)  90.81 184 x 450 x 79.99 (VCR) 
1964 Oct 7  0634   90.70 180 x 438 x 80.0 
1964 Oct 7 0700   90.75 182 x 440 x 80.0 (RAE) 
1964 Oct 10  0008:02  SRV-1 ejected 
 0008:12  Retro 
 0008:24  T/C sep 
 0017:01  Main parachute deploy 
 0043?  SRV-1 recovered, orbit 65 
  Rev 65 reactivate 
1964 Oct 10  2216   90.62 180 x 429 x 80.0 
1964 Oct 12   
 2307:20  D-Timer on 
 2307:33  Fairing sep (D+0:13) 
 2309:43  SRV-2 sep failure (D+1:23) 
 2319:36  Pitch down verified 
1964 Oct 13   Rev 117, contact lost 
1964 Oct 13  2314? rev 128 Second SRV-2 recovery attempt failed 
1964 Oct 14  2254   90.39 176 x 412 x 80.0 
1964 Oct 15    90.4 176 x 391 x 80.0 (SSR) 
1964 Oct 16  0030   90.24 175 x 397 x 80.0 
1964 Oct 23  1201   88.97 160 x 286 x 80.0 
1964 Oct 26  0941  CORONA/Agena/SRV-2 reentered 75N 26.6W 

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