Saturday, January 26, 1980

Vostok 4 (Golden Eagle)

  1962-037A


Vostok-3A No. 6 (3KA No. 6) was launched a day after No. 5, and given the name Vostok-4. Pilot was Maior. Pavel R. Popovich. Vostok-4 flew past Vostok-3 on the first orbit at a distance of about 6 km; however, strictly this was not a rendezvous, as the relative speeds of the craft were high and they had no on-board maneuvring engines. 


Vostok-4 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1962 Aug 12  0802:33  Launch by 8K72K  KB 
 0804  Blok BVGD sep 
 0804  Fairing sep 
 0807  Blok-A sep 
 0807  Blok-E burn 
 0813  Blok-E cutoff 
   169 x 222 x 64.95 
 0900?  Flyby Vostok-3, 6 km 
1962 Aug 15  0630  Retrofire over 6S 42E 
 0631? PO sep 
 0646:33 Pilot ejected 70:44 
 0651? Cabin landed 
 0659  Pilot landed 70:57 48 10 N 71 51E

Tuesday, January 1, 1980

Spaceflight: May 1978

 https://welib.org/md5/3fa778422a65a24956d35219be6c774d

Molniya 114

 1968-085A


Molniya-1 F14 (N10) was launched on 1968 Oct 5. In early 1971 the orbit was apparently raised by 600 km; alternatively, this may represent a misidentification.


Molniya-1 F14 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1968 Oct 5  0032:00 Launch by Molniya 8K78M  KB 
  BVGD sep 
  GO sep 
  T+4:46 Blok A sep 
  T+4:56 KhO sep 
  T+8:46 Blok-I MECO 
 0040  T+8:50 Blok-I sep 
  T+53:16 BOZ burn 
 0125?  T+53:56 BOZ sep 
  ML burn 
  T+56:46 ML MECO 
 0128?  T+56:54 ML sep   
1968 Oct    490 x 39600 x 65 
1968 Oct 7  0123   711.98 403 x 39664 x 64.7 
1968 Oct 12  2346   711.86 433 x 39629 x 64.8 
1968 Oct 29  0833   718.20 464 x 39911 x 65.0 
1968 Dec 8  0604   718.05 478 x 39889 x 65.1 
1969 Aug 12    717.68 361 x 39988 x 65.5 
1970 Mar 31    718.18 461 x 39912 x 65.5 
1971 Feb 24    716.26 671 x 39608 x 65.5 
1971 Apr 19    728.00 1295 x 39562 x 65.4 
1974 Oct 2    728.13 1091 x 39772 x 64.8 
1976 May 4    724.80 159 x 40541 x 64.3 
1976 Jul 7    159.52 101 x 6628 x 64.2 
1976 Jul 16   Reentered 

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