1969-102A
DS-P1-Yu No. 27 was a Subgroup 1 mission.
| Kosmos-311 | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 Nov 24 | 1100 | Launch by 11K63 | PL |
| 1102 | Stage 2 burn | ||
| 1107? | Stage 2 sep | ||
| 1969 Nov 25 | 2130 | 91.99 273 x 469 x 71.04 | |
| 1970 Jan 19 | 1857? | Stage 2 reentered | |
| 1970 Jan? | End of operations | ||
| 1970 Mar 10 | 0614? | Reentered | |
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 | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
1959-012A
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 | |
