Aviation Week: September 17,1984

 https://welib.org/md5/85fe12a1b7b578dece9a9af0135bc43e

Seventeen: November 1984

 https://welib.org/md5/14aca93a2e59a9f1a4d395194a3caff7

Carrying the Fire

https://welib.org/md5/8cbe3945629555a5249d16360f82682d

Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo Saturn Launch Vehicles

 https://welib.org/md5/50b79a89bea8c58b3625522379ae9c3f

The Earthbound Observer

https://welib.org/md5/278fb6096f965a4bcd6a85aa197db419

Molniya 210

  1974-056A

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A Molniya-2 was launched in Jul 1974 to plane B and was operative for a little more than two years.

Molniya-2 F10
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1974 Jul 23	0123:01	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
	0131	T+8:50 Blok-I sep
		T+53:16 BOZ burn
	0216	T+53:56 BOZ sep
		ML burn
		T+56:46 ML MECO
	0219	T+56:54 ML sep
1974 Jul 24	0314		737.60 603 x 40724 x 62.9
1974 Jul 27	1652		718.02 498 x 39868 x 62.9
1975 Jun 17			717.78 912 x 39442 x 63.1
1976 Aug 26			717.81 1374 x 38981 x 63.2
1976 Aug 27		end of ops
1976 Dec 16			717.85 1415 x 38942 x 63.3

Kosmos 1128

 1979-081A

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Kosmos-1128
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1979 Sep 14	1530	Launch by Soyuz-U	Plesetsk
	1534	Blok-I burn
	1538	Blok-I sep
1979 Sep 14			89.55 174 x 330 x 62.8
1979 Sep 15			89.55 176 x 327 x 62.8
1979 Sep 15			89.53 175 x 327 x 62.8
1979 Sep 16			89.67 176 x 340 x 62.8
1979 Sep 17			89.40 153 x 336 x 62.8
1979 Sep 20			89.15 149 x 314 x 62.8
1979 Sep 21			89.34 149 x 334 x 62.8
1979 Sep 25			89.10 145 x 314 x 62.8
1979 Sep 26			89.65 148 x 365 x 62.8
1979 Sep 27
	0658?	Deorbit
	0708?	PO sep
	0711?	Entry
	0731?	Landed

Dream Palaces: Hollywood at Home

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The High School Journal: October-November 1984

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MARECS-B

 1982-F06

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The second MARECS was lost in the Ariane L5 launch failure. The third stage pump failed at an altitude of 182 km, 9 minutes after liftoff. Four minutes later the rocket and payload impacted the Atlantic 2700 km downrange from Kourou, off the coast of Africa.

MARECS B
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1982 Sep 9	0212:03	Launch by Ariane L5	CSG
		T+2:27 Stage 1 MECO
		T+2:32 Stage 1 sep
		T+2:34 St 2 MES
		T+2:40 St 2 ullage motors sep
		T+4:19 Fairing sep
		T+4:49? St 2 MECO
		T+4:54? St 2 sep
	0216:48	T+4:58 (T+4:45?) Stage 3 HM-7 ignition	-4700? x 220 x 10?
			-4580 x 180 x 10?
	0221:23	T+9:20 Stage 3 pump failed after 4:35
	0222:03	T+10:10 Stage 3 pump stopped after 5:25	-1900? x 220 x 10?
	0225	Impacted in Atlantic Ocean

Kosmos 870

 1976-115A

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Kosmos-870
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1976 Dec 2	0017	Launch by 11K65M	Plesetsk
	0019	S3 burn
	0025?	T+8m? S3 MECO-1
	0050?	T+33m? S3 MES-2
	0050?	S3 sep
1976 Dec 2			95.3 513x548x74.0
1980 Dec 20		reentered

Discoverer 2

  1959-003

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The second CORONA vehicle, Agena 1018, was intended as a recovery test, carrying a small biomedical payload. On rev 17 the CORONA was tilted down 60 deg for SRV ejection. The SRV ejected too early because of a programming error and landed somewhere near the Spitsbergen Islands in the Arctic. The SRV was probably the first artificial object to return intact to the Earth from orbit. It may even have been the first to be recovered - although the CIA never saw it again, they concluded at the time that the Soviets may have located it, inspiring the novel and movie `Ice Station Zebra'. However, the Soviet involvement seems to have been an imaginative stretch. 

CORONA 2
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1959 Apr 13	2119	Launch by Thor Agena A	V
	2121	Thor MECO (T+2:39)
	2121	Thor VECO (T+2:48)
	2121	Thor sep (T+2:51)
	2124	Agena 1018 burn (T+4:59)
	2126	Agena cutoff (T+6:58)
			253 x 346 km (VCR)
			90.4 239 x 346 x 89.9 (RAE)
			90.4 239 x 346 x 89.9 (SATCAT)
1959 Apr 15	0004?	Rev 17 SRV sep prematurely
		Sep + 10s SRV deorbit	-245? x 415? x 89.9
		Sep + 22s T/C sep
	0014?	Sep +10m reentry
	0018?	SRV impact in Spitzbergen
1959 Apr 15	1000?	End of tx rev 25
1959 Apr 19		CW beacon last detected
1959 Apr 24	1430		88.9 199 x 238x 89.9 (RAE)
1959 Apr 26	0900?	Agena reentered between rev 203 and 206

Payload:

• Satellite Recovery Vehicle (Mk I Biomed Recovery Capsule)

Spaceflight: November 1984

 https://welib.org/md5/81b70b2bf5d9272ac7ea648c1d736a48

Jikiken

 1978-087A

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The EXOS-B spacecraft, Jikiken (Magnetosphere), was launched on 1978 Sep 16 by Mu 3H. It had four long antennae to study magnetospheric fields.

The 92 kg satellite was a domed polyhedral cylinder, 0.75m dia 0.60m high of a different design to the Tansei-3/EXOS-A satellites. EXOS-B had a new, 0.70m dia KM-B kick motor as a fourth stage. Unlike MS-T3, the motor was below the payload at launch and was fired immediately after the third stage, which was suborbital. 30 min later NASA picked up the signal. The antennae were extended, dropping spin rate from 150 to 3 rpm. Actual deployment was to 69.8m and 103.0m span (maximum would have been 206 m span).

KM-B mass is 284 kg f 49? em, 22.6 kN, 0.86m long 0.73m dia, Isp 283s, 30 s burn time. The delta-V calculations suggest a stage 3 orbit of -1000 x 231 km but the impact zone of 160W 10N suggests a trajectory more like -450 x 231 km.

Jikiken
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1978 Sep 16	0500	Launch by Mu 3H	KASC
		T+0:08 SOB burnout
		T+0:09 SOB sep
	0502?	St 1 burnout
		T+1:24 St 1 sep
		T+1:26 St 2 sep
	0502?	St 2 burnout	-5179 x 233 x 31.1
	0502?	Fairing top off
	0502?	Fairing lower part off
	0505?	Spinup St 3
	0505	T+5:57 St 2 sep
	0504	T+4:30 St 3 burn 53s, 224 km (ISAS doc)
		T+5:41 KM burn 33s (ISAS doc)
	0506	T+6:02 St 3 burn, 54s
	0506	T+6:56 St 3 burnout	-1000? x 231 x 31.1
	0507	T+7:12 St 3 sep
	0507	T+7:12 KM Kick motor burn
	0508	T+8:37 KM sep	517.9 230 x 30558 x 31.1
1978 Sep 25		Booms deployed
1981		Still operating

Payload:

• 103 m antennae (2) long wave antenna

• 69 m antennae (2)

• 1m vector magnetometer boom

• SPW Stimulated Plasma Waves

• NPW Natural plasma waves

• IEF Impedance Electric Field

• CBE Controlled electron beam emissions

• DPL VLF Doppler propagation expt