Corona 84

 1964-048A

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The final ARGON satellite, CORONA flight 84, carried the Starflash 1B optical beacon  and the mission (9066A) was similar to the previous flight. Mass was 1325 kg. OPS 2739 was launched by TAT Agena D from complex 75-1 on 1964 Aug 21. The SRV was recovered from the 115 deg orbit on the 96th orbit. The CORONA program history reports that this mission was the first to carry an OAS solid rocket motor.

KH-5 Mission 9066A
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1964 Aug 21	1545	Launch by TAT Agena D	V 75-1 Pad 2
	1546	Castor sep (T+1:05)
	1547	Thor MECO (T+2:28)
	1547	Thor VECO (T+2:37)
	1547	Thor sep (T+2:44)
	1548	Agena burn (T+3:33)
	1552	Agena MECO (T+7:38)	91.72 364 x 382 x 114.97 (VCR)
1964 Aug 21	2251	91.66 339 x 372 x 115.0
1964 Aug 22	0630	91.65 349 x 362 x 115.0
1964 Aug 25	1430		91.60 349 x 363 x 115.0 (RAE)
1964 Aug			91.7 351 x 363 x 114.9 (SATCAT)
1964 Aug 27	1818?	SRV ejected
	1855?	SRV recovered rev 96
1964 Aug 30	1425		91.36 330 x 352 x 115.0
1964 Dec 5	1200		90.90 305 x 332 x 115.0 (RAE)
1965 Mar 27	0500		89.15 219 x 232 x 115.0 (RAE)
1965 Mar 29		88.45 195 x 200 x 115.0
1965 Mar 31	0740?	Reentered

Kosmos 1106

 1979-054A

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Two-tone telemetry; medium res satellite. 

Kosmos-1106
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1979 Jun 12	0700	Launch by Soyuz	PL
	0704	Blok-I burn
	0708	Blok-I sep
1979 Jun 18			89.06 216x237x81.37
1979 Jun 24			88.82 207x222x81.36
1979 Jun 25
	0256?	Deorbit
	0306?	PO sep
	0312?	Entry	-214 x 211
	0328?	Landed

Kosmos 444

 1971-086A

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Kosmos-444 was satellite 1 of Strela-1M octuplet no. 3.

Kosmos-444
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1971 Oct 13	1341	Launch by 11K65M	PL
		Stage 2 burn 1
	1348	T+7m Stage 2 MECO-1
		Stage 2 burn 2
	1439?	T+58m? Stage 2 sep
1971 Dec 18			114.16 1324 x 1509 x 74.03

ESRO-4

 1972-092A

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The ESRO IV satellite was built by the UK firm Hawker Siddeley Dynamics (later part of British Aerospace) to study the ionosphere and solar particles. It carried experiments originally intended for the cancelled TD-2 program, and used the ESRO II structure. It was placed in a 254 x 1173 km orbit in Nov 1972.

Mass 115 kg. Cylinder with 4 deployable booms. Size is 0.76 m dia and 0.90m high. A cable restrains the booms and is severed after stage 4 separation. No yo-yo system is carried as the boom deploy reduces the spin rate to 70 rpm. Stage 4 empty is 47 kg, with 277 kg prop. (25 kg stage plus 7 kg Upper D section plus 14 kg E section). A 17 kg spin table remains with the third stage.

Some time zone confusion in different sources leads to launch dates of Nov 22 or Nov 23; analysis of TLE data confirms the Nov 22 date. Stage trajectories here are prelaunch; actual trajectory was lower.

ESRO IV
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1972 Nov 22	0017:01	Launch by Scout D-1 S185C	V SLC 5
	0018:21	Algol burnout T+1:20 41.6 km 39.6 deg 1.400 km/s
	0018:24	Castor burn T+1:23 44.4 km 38.6 deg 1.379 km/s
	0019:04	Castor burnout T+2:03 93.7 km 31.4 deg 3.327 km/s
	0020:03	Heatshield eject T+3:02
	0020:04	Antares burn T+3:03 182.5 km 23.9 deg 3.065 km/s
	0020:38	Antares burnout T+3:37 219.8 km 8.2 deg 5.302 km/s
	0020:46	Coast T+3:45
	0023:01	Altair burn T+6:01 275.4 km 0.6 deg 5.204 km/s
	0023:36	Altair burnout T+6:35 275.0 km 0.0 deg 7.963 km/s
	0028:07	Stage 4 sep	99.0 254 x 1173 x 99.1
	0028:07	ESRO IV radial booms deploy T+11:06
	0028:15	T+11:14 axial booms deply and S80 NMS cover jettison (92C?)
1974 Apr 15		End of ops
1977 Nov 26	0900	Reentered

Payload:

• S80 Neutral mass spectrometer

• S103 Auroral and solar particles (MPE)

• S99 High energy proton and anlpha (SRON)

• S45 Ion probe; Langmuir probe (ne,Te) on one of three booms

• S94 Auroral electron pitch angle distribution

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Kosmos 1204

 1980-067A

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Only 22 objects were tracked as being released from the next Romb, Kosmos-1204. Releases from Kosmos-1186 were suspended during the Kosmos-1204 mission and resumed after it reentered.

Kosmos-1204
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1980 Jul 31	1020	Launch by 11K65M	KY
	1028?	Stage 2 MECO-1
	1034?	MECO-2
1980 Jul 31			93.4 345x538x50.7
1981 Feb 23		reentered

No	Object	RCS	Release (approx)	Decay
	Kosmos-1204	13.7		1981 Feb 23
	S3 rocket	23.0		1981 Feb 13
1	C	0.25	1980 Sep 8	1980 Oct 11
2	D		1980 Sep 8	1980 Oct 14
3	E	0.31	1980 Sep 26	1980 Oct 31
4	F	0.31	1980 Sep 26	1980 Oct 24
5	G	0.31	1980 Sep 26	1980 Oct 24
6	H	0.31	1980 Sep 26	1980 Oct 26
7	J	0.21	1980 Oct 11	1980 Nov 3
8	K	0.22	1980 Oct 11	1980 Nov 3
9	L	0.19	1980 Oct 11	1980 Nov 4
10	M	0.23	1980 Oct 11	1980 Nov 10
11	N		1980 Oct 25	1981 Apr 13
12	P	0.25	1980 Oct 25	1980 Nov 18
13	Q	0.31	1980 Oct 25	1980 Nov 18
14	R		1980 Oct 31	1980 Nov 23
15	S		1980 Oct 31	1980 Dec 3
16	T		1980 Oct 31	1980 Nov 19
17	U		1980 Oct 31	1980 Nov 17
18	V		1980 Oct 31	1980 Nov 17
19	W		1980 Nov 4	1980 Nov 16
20	X		1980 Nov 4	1980 Nov 23
21	Y		1980 Nov 22	1980 Dec 14
22	Z		1980 Nov 22	1980 Dec 13

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