Wednesday, October 1, 1986

Corona 135

 1969-079A


KH-4A Mission 1052 was the final KH-4A flight. It was launched on 1969 Sep 22 by Thorad Agena D from Vandenberg into an 85 degree orbit. Both of the SRVs were recovered successfully. The mission discovered new UR-100 (SS-11) silos at Pervomaysk and Derazhnaya.


KH-4A Mission 1052 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1969 Sep 22  2111 Launch by Thorad SLV-2G Agena D V SLC3W 
 2112 Castor sep 
 2114 Thor sep 
 2115 Agena burn 
 2119 Agena MECO 
   88.50 152 x 252 x 85.04 (OE) 
 2302? Subsatellite ejected 
 2310? DMU 13kN burn, rev 2 
1969 Sep 22  2337   88.49 152 x 247 x 85.0 
1969 Sep 23  0700   88.62 154 x 258 x 85.0 
 1600? DMU burn 2, rev 14 
1969 Sep 24  0641   88.77 176 x 251 x 85.0 
1969 Sep 24  1832   88.73 176 x 248 x 85.0 
1969 Sep 24  0700  88.83 178 x 253 x 85.0 (RAE) 
1969 Sep 25  1217   88.69 175 x 245 x 85.0 
1969 Sep 26  0434   88.65 169 x 246 x 85.0 
1969 Sep 26   DMU burn 3, rev 56 
1969 Sep 27  0712   88.74 176 x 248 x 85.0 
1969 Sep 28  0653   88.71 177 x 244 x 85.0 
  DMU burn 4, rev 94 
1969 Sep 29  0337   88.82 176 x 255 x 85.0 
1969 Sep 29  0804   88.81 171 x 263 x 85.0 (OE) 
 2322?  SRV-1 ejected 
1969 Sep 29  2358 SRV-1 recovered 
1969 Sep 29  2252   88.77 169 x 260 x 85.0 (OE) 
1969 Sep 30   DMU burn 5, rev 133 
 1043   88.73 172 x 251 x 85.0 
 1935   88.70 168 x 252 x 85.0 
1969 Sep 30    88.7 177 x 253 x 85.0 (SSR) 
1969 Oct 1  0002   88.69 172 x 247 x 85.1 
1969 Oct 2   DMU burn 6, rev 172 
1969 Oct 2  1005   88.76 173 x 252 x 85.0 
1969 Oct 5  0909   88.73 177 x 245 x 85.0 
 2100   88.71 172 x 249 x 85.0 
  DMU burn 7, rev 221 
1969 Oct 6  2040   88.82 177 x 255 x 85.0 
1969 Oct 7 2151   88.75 170 x 257 x 85.0 (OE) 
1969 Oct 7  2220?  SRV-2 ejected 
 2257 SRV-2 recovered 
1969 Oct 8  0346   88.73 176 x 248 x 85.0 
1969 Oct 8   L/B experiment  
1969 Oct 9  0624   88.64 173 x 242 x 85.0 
1969 Oct 11  0200?  Last stable pass, rev 295  
1969 Oct 12  1230   87.56 139 x 167 x 85.0 
1969 Oct 12  1452? CORONA/Agena reentered 

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