Molniya 107

  1966-092A

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Molniya-1 No. 7 was the last OKB-1 built Molniya and the first to achieve a stabilized 12-hour period ground track, in Nov 1966. Improvements to the solar panels made it longer lived, operating for more than a year.

Molniya-1 7
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1966 Oct 20	0750	Launch by 8K78M	KB
	0754?	Blok-I
	0759?	Blok-I MECO
	0850?	BOZ burn
	0851?	Blok L burn
	0855?	Blok L sep
1966 Nov 8			713.23 454 x 39675 x 64.6
1966 Nov		Ground track stabilized
1966 Dec 1			718.12 464 x 39907 x 64.7
1967 Jan 27			717.87 480 x 39878 x 64.8
1968 Jan 29		End of ops
1968 Jul 3			712.48 181 x 39911 x 65.0
1968 Sep 11		Reentered

DSAP 2

 1965-072A

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Vehicle 1 in the Block 2 series was orbited on 1965 Sep 10, using a Thor Burner 1 with an FW4 upper stage. It operated on its primary mission for 341 days. The satellite carried a 1.3cm video camera, the medium resolution `C' IR camera system with 16 sensors in the 0.2-5 micron band and the 5-30 micron bands, and a high resolution radiometer (HRR) in the 7-14 micron bands.

DSAP 01213
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1965 Sep 10	0441:38	Launch by Thor Burner 1	V 4300B6
	0444:16	Thor MECO (T+2:38)
	0444:24	Thor VECO (T+2:46)
	0444:35	Heatshield sep (T+2:57)
	0452:03	FW4 spinup (T+10:25)
	0452:04	Thor sep (T+10:26)
	0452:10	FW4 burn (T+10:32)
	0452:43	FW4 burnout (T+11:05)
	0452	FW4 sep
	1430		101.93 649 x 1054 x 98.7 (RAE)
1966 Aug 17		end of primary mission
1966 Sep 22		end of ops

Payload:

• Video camera

• System C IR camera

• High resolution radiometer

Aviation Week: October 26,1981

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The First Act

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