Saturday, October 24, 1981

Molniya 119

  1970-049A


The first D-plane satellite was Molniya-1 F19, launched on 26 Jun 1970.


Molniya-1 F19 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1970 Jun 26  0323:01 Launch by 8K78M  PL 
  BVGD sep 
  GO sep 
  T+4:46 Blok A sep 
  T+4:56 KhO sep 
  T+8:46 Blok-I MECO 
 0331  T+8:50 Blok-I sep 
  T+53:16 BOZ burn 
 0416?  T+53:56 BOZ sep 
  ML burn 
  T+56:46 ML MECO 
 0419?  T+56:54 ML sep   
1970 Jun 30    700.39 331 x 39051 x 65.39 
1970 Jul 8    700.30 475 x 39013 x 65.39 
1970 Jul 13    717.59 466 x 39879 x 65.4 
1970 Jul 27    717.60 472 x 39873 x 65.3 
1970 AugOrbit raised
1970 Nov 18    717.59 603 x 39741 x 65.5 
1971 Jan 24    717.94 740 x 39621 x 65.5 
1972 Feb 16    717.66 1296 x 39052 x 65.5 
1972 Apr   end of stabilized operations
1973 Jan 29    717.47 1531 x 38807 x 65.5 
1974 May 30    717.39 1031 x 39304 x 65.4 
1975 Oct 21    717.10 233 x 40088 x 65.0 
1976 Feb 10    156.73 59 x 6442 x 65.0 
1976 Feb 16   Reentered 

Sunday, October 18, 1981

Kosmos 386

  1970-110A


Zenit-4M flight 9 was launched in Dec 1970 as Kosmos-386. The satellite was recovered after a 13 day flight.


Kosmos-386 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1970 Dec 15  1000:01  Launch by 11A57  KB 
 1004  Blok-I burn  
 1008  Blok-I sep  
 1847   89.13 221 x 241 x 65.0 
  Orbit raise
1970 Dec 16  1110   89.39 214 x 274 x 65.0 
1970 Dec   Orbit raise 
1970 Dec 23  2040   90.00 212 x 336 x 65.0 
1970 Dec 27  1909   89.97 211 x 334 x 65.0 
1970 Dec 28  0400Engine sep 
 0705? Retrofire 
 0714? PO sep 
 0721? Entry 
 0736? Landed after 12.9d 

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