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 

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