Luna 1

 1959-012A

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On the fourth launch, on Jan 2, 1959, the R-7 core worked correctly and the Blok-E got its first chance to fire. It operated successfully except for a control system malfunction. The final Blok-E stage and the E-1 No. 4 probe were placed in solar orbit, missing the Moon by 6000 km on Jan 4.

At the time there was no official name for the probe, just 'scientific instrument container of the Soviet Cosmic Rocket'. By the early 1960s it was referred to as the AMS `Luna' ( Avtomaticheskaya Mezhplanetaya Stantsiya `Luna') (known today as Luna-1), the probe was also referred to as `Mechta', reflecting the achievement of Tsiolkovskiy's `dream'. The probe carried detectors to measure the space environment; the 0.8 m diameter sphere had a mass of 205 kg (the often quoted mass of 361 kg includes a power supply attached to the final stage; possibly the sodium cloud experiment must also be subtracted). The probe stopped transmitting on Jan 5.

AMS Luna
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1959 Jan 2	1641:25	Launch by 8K72	KB
	1646?	Blok-A sep
	1646?	Blok-E burn
		Fairing sep?
	1652:10	T+11:45 Escape velocity
1959 Jan 4	0259	Perilune 6000 km, ahead of Moon
1959 Jan 5		End of transmissions
1959 Jan 14		Perihelion	146M x 197M km x 1.0 deg

Seventeen: April 1986

 https://welib.org/md5/70070ef0742c4f350687560af7ef1137

Heart Breaker

 https://welib.org/md5/6c40813ecd743535ee324fc8b958c3b6

Corona 128

 1968-078A

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KH-4A Mission 1048 was launched by Thorad Agena D from Vandenberg on 1968 Sep 18. Both SRVs were recovered but the forward camera failed on mission 1048-2 during pass 181D. The mission carried at least 7 DMU rockets, possibly of a modified design; the first was used as planned to achieve the nominal orbit; the next three were used to maintain orbital height; and the last three were fired retrograde and used to test out the Thiokol motors. DMU 6 and 7 were 3000 lb-s; the remaindeer were 2000 lb-s versions.

KH-4A Mission 1048
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1968 Sep 18	2132	Launch by LTTAT Agena D	V
	2131	Launch (PerfER)
	2133	Castor sep
	2135	Thor sep
	2136	Agena burn
	2140	Agena MECO
	2306?	Subsatellite ejected
1968 Sep 18	2059		90.11 166 x 393 x 83.0
		DMU burn 1 rev 4
1968 Sep 19	1632		90.16 175 x 389 x 83.0
1968 Sep 19			90.12 167 x 393 x 83.0 (RAE)
1968 Sep 20	0604		90.17 182 x 383 x 83.0
1968 Sep 22		DMU burn 2 rev 56
1968 Sep 25	0023		90.19 177 x 390 x 83.0
1968 Sep 27	1532		90.10 176 x 382 x 83.0
1968 Sep 27		DMU burn 3 rev 136
	2331?	SRV-1 ejected
1968 Sep 28	0010	SRV-1 recovered rev 145; 23 38N 169 07W
	0015	SRV-1 recovered (PerfR) 23 38 N 169 07 W
1968 Sep 30			90.1 178 x 391 x 83.0 (SSR)
1968 Oct 2	2224?	SRV-2 ejected rev 224
1968 Oct 2	2305	SRV-2 recovered 17 34N 160 49W
1968 Oct 2	2330?	DMU burn 4 rev 225
1968 Oct 3		DMU burn 5 rev 229, retro 6m/s
1968 Oct 3	0951		89.49 168 x 331 x 83.1
		DMU burn 6 rev 233, retro 9m/s
1968 Oct 3		DMU burn 7 rev 238, retro 9m/s
1968 Oct 5	2258		88.91 167 x 274 x 83.0
1968 Oct 8		Reentered

Seventeen: December 1983

 https://welib.org/md5/9ccfe30a04fb51f254c95729fd2f1af8

Spaceflight: March 1986

 https://welib.org/md5/b8a0adff36a080beb89038a65653a260

The History of the Kings of Britain: An edition and translation of the De gestis Britonum [Historia Regum Britanniae]

 https://welib.org/md5/8593010012888fe3be55037e40760efc

Kosmos 1304

 1981-087A

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Kosmos-1304
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1981 Sep 4	1106	Launch by Kosmos-3M	PL LC132
		T+2:10 St 1 MECO
		T+2:12 St 1 sep
		T+2:12 St 2 burn 59km
		T+2:27 Fairing sep 76km
	1114?	T+8:03 St 2 MECO 150 km	150 x 1003? x 83
		T+1:02:19 St 2 MES2
		T+1:02:30 St 2 MECO2
	1209?	T+1:02:50 St 2 sep
1981 Sep 4			103.99 911x978x82.94