Friday, May 23, 1980

Kosmos 777

  1975-102A


The second US-P flight operated for 3 months and then disintegrated. Several large pieces were seen including 102AC and 102AP, both with RCS 9m2.


Kosmos-777 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1975 Oct 29  1100 Launch by Tsiklon 2  KB 
 1102 Stage 1 sep 
 1104  Stage 2 sep  
 1148? AKM burn 
1975 Oct 29    93.31 428 x 444 x 65.0 
1975 Nov 19    93.30 429 x 442 x 65.0 
1976 Jan 25    93.30 429 x 442 x 65.0 
1976 Jan 25 1539  disintegrated 441 km above 52.94N 7.15E  
1976 Jan 30    93.25 417 x 449 x 65.0

Tuesday, May 6, 1980

Gambit 19

 1965-050B


KH-7 19 was launched on 1965 Jun 25 by Atlas Agena D from Vandenberg into a 151 x 283 km x 107.6 deg orbit. Shortly after orbit insertion it ejected an electronic intelligence subsatellite. For some reason (probably administrative error) this subsatellite was given the earlier catalog number and the 1965-50A international designation, while the main payload got the 50B designation. A second object, 1965-50D, was tracked in the same orbit as the subsatellite but decayed more quickly.


KH-7 19 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1965 Jun 25  1930?  Launch by Atlas Agena D  
  T+2:18? BECO 
  T+4:37? SECO 
  T+4:54? VECO 
  T+4:59? Atlas sep 
  T+5:51? Agena MES 
 1939? T+9:50? Agena MECO 
 1940? Type B subsatellite ejected 
  OCV sep 88.78 151 x 283 x 107.6 
1965 Jun 26  1413  (Agena D)  88.54 150 x 253 x 107.6 
 2009  (OCV)  88.81 148 x 282 x 107.6 
1965 Jun 26   SRV recovered 
 2208? Deorbit 
 2235? Recovered 
1965 Jun 30  1700?  Reentered 

Thursday, May 1, 1980

Kosmos 1033

 1978-089A



Kosmos-1033 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1978 Oct 3  1100 Launch by Soyuz  Plesetsk 
 1104? Blok-I burn 
 1108? Blok-I sep 
1978 Oct 3    88.88 203 x 234 x 81.4 
1978 Oct 7   
89.02 213 x 238 x 81.4 
1978 Oct 15    88.61 197 x 214 x 81.4 
1978 Oct 16   
 0646? Deorbit 
 0656? PO sep 
 0701?  Entry 
 0715? Landed 

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