Wednesday, March 31, 1982

Corona 101

 1965-079A


KH-4A Mission 1025 (CORONA 101) was launched on 1965 Oct 5. The spacecraft used a leftover MURAL camera, M-28, upgraded to the J-1 design and renamed JX-28. The two SRVs were recovered after successful nose-first cartography missions lasting 5 days each. A few new intelligence targets were also observed. 


KH-4A Mission 1025 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1965 Oct 5  1745:57 Launch by Thor SLV-2A Agena D  V 75-3 Pad 5 
 1747:02  Castor sep (T+1:05) 
 1748:25  Thor MECO (T+2:28) 
 1748:34  Thor VECO (T+2:37) 
 1748:41  Thor sep (T+2:44) 
 1748:46  Agena burn (T+2:49) 
 1752:49  Agena MECO (T+6:52)  89.78 208 x 335 x 75.04 (VCR) 
1965 Oct 5  2143   89.78 203 x 323 x 75.0 
1965 Oct 6  1540   89.74 200 x 322 x 75.0 
1965 Oct 6  1700  89.75 203 x 323 x 75.0 (RAE) 
1965 Oct 9  1059   89.70 200 x 318 x 75.0 
1965 Oct 10  1851? SRV-1 ejected on rev 81 
1965 Oct 10  1931  SRV-1 recovered midair 
  21 56N 151 09W 
1965 Oct 15    89.7 202 x 311 x 75.0 (SSR) 
1965 Oct 15  1828? SRV-2 ejected on rev 161 
1965 Oct 15  1901 SRV-2 recovered midair 
  17 06N 159 42W 
1965 Oct 16  1624   89.59 200 x 308 x 75.0 
1965 Oct 25  0004   89.06 191 x 265 x 75.1 
1965 Oct 29  1800? CORONA/Agena reentered 

Saturday, March 20, 1982

Kosmos 1299

 1981-081A


The first high-orbit elset has epoch Sep 6 0137; the many elsets for epoch Sep 5 2118 suggest they may be attempts to locate a vehicle that had already split. The previous low orbit epoch is at Sep 5 1519. The best fit transfer orbit suggests burns around 1530-1630 UTC.


Kosmos-1299 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1981 Aug 24  1637 Launch by Tsiklon-2 Baikonur 
 1639  Stage 1 sep 
 1641  Stage 2 sep  -800? x 265 x 65 
 1651? DU burn  
 1701? Stage 2 reentry 
1981 Aug 24    89.64 247x266x65.01 
1981 Sep 5    251 x 263 x 64.0 
 1536?  Burn 1  256 x 912  
 1627?  Burn 2  
1981 Sep 6    910x984x65 

Sunday, March 14, 1982

Kosmos 352

  1970-052A


Zenit-4 No. 87 was launched in Jul 1970 on a 51.8 deg mission from Baikonur.


Kosmos-352 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1970 Jul 7  1030:01 Launch by 11A57  KB 
 1034 Blok-I burn 
 1039 Blok-I sep 
1970 Jul 8  0412   89.52 207 x 294 x 51.8 
1970 Jul 12  0204   89.42 200 x 291 x 51.8 
1970 Jul 15  0901? Retrofire 
 0921? Landed after 7.95d

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