Progress 5

 1979-022A

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Progress (7K-TG) No. 104 was launched in Mar 1979 as Progress-5. A radio homing experiment was carried out on Apr 3-5.

Progress-5
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1979 Mar 12	0547:28	Launch by Soyuz-U	KB
	0552	Blok I burn
	0556	Blok I MECO
	0930		88.89 183 x 256 x 51.65
	1700		89.98 258 x 290 x 51.6
1979 Mar 13	0930		90.05 261 x 293 x 51.62
1979 Mar 14	0719:21	Docked with Salyut-6
	1200		90.71 294 x 325 x 51.62
1979 Mar 15	0620	Hatch opened
1979 Mar 31			90.70 279 x 339 x 51.6
1979 Apr 3	1610	Undocked from Salyut-6
	2130		91.30 326 x 351 x 51.6
	2230	Radio homing experiment begins
1979 Apr 4	0200		91.30 330 x 347 x 51.6
	1000	Radio homing experiment ends
1979 Apr 5	0010:22	Deorbit burn
	0035	Reentered over Pacific

Kosmos 79

 1965-069A

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Kosmos-79 (Zenit-4 No. 7) flew a standard 8 day mission in Aug 1965, only three days after the landing of Zenit-2 No. 30, which in turn had been launched only three days after Zenit-4 No. 13 landed.

Kosmos-79
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1965 Aug 25	1010:02	Launch by 11A57	KB
	1014?	Blok-I burn
	1019?	Blok-I sep	89.94 205 x 338 x 64.90
1965 Sep 2	0638?	Retrofire
1965 Sep 2	0700?	Landed

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Explorer 12

  1961-020

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The S-003 payload, also known as EPE-A (Energetic Particles Explorer A), was launched on 1961 Aug 15 by Delta from Cape Canaveral into a highly elliptical orbit with an apogee of 77000 km. Interestingly, it was the first satellite to be launched into an orbit with a period close to the geosynchronous period of 24 hours. Explorer XII transmitted until 1961 Dec 6 and reentered on 1963 Sep 27.

Mass was 38 kg. Size was 0.48m high 0.66m dia with a 0.81m magnetometer boom.

The prelaunch plan was a first perigee at 14N 49W and apogee at 12S 99W.

Explorer 12
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1961 Aug 16	0321:05	Launch by Delta	CC LC17
	0323:42	T+2:37 Thor MECO
	0323	Thor sep
	0323:44	Delta 2016 SES, 1:51
	0325:35	T+4:30 Delta SECO	-2054 x 816 x 33.5
	0332?	S+0 Altair burn 43s
	0333	S+0:43 Altair burnout	314 x 77310 x 33.1
	0336	First perigee	294 x 77340 x 33.4
	0352?	S+19:58 yo weights deploy from S-3
	0357?	S+25:00 Paddles deploy
	0357?	S+25:02 Altair sep
	1653	First apogee
1961 Aug 17	0610	Second perigee
	1927	Second apogee
1961 Aug 18	0840	Third perigee
1961 Sep 20			1593.50 457 x 77170 x 33.4
1961 Dec 6		End of tx
1962 Jan 6			1594.62 693 x 76976 x 33.8
1963 Sep 27		Reentered

OTS 2

 1978-044A

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OTS 2 was launched aboard a Delta 3914. The spacecraft carried out tests of television direct broadcasting, oil platform communications, and newspaper data transfer. ESOC controlled the apogee firing. OTS was built by BAe Dynamics (formerly HSD)

OTS 2
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1978 May 11	2259:00	Launch by Delta 3914	CC LC17
	2300	T+0:57 SRM 1-5 burnout
		T+1:04 SRM 6-9 burn
		T+1:04 SRM 1-5 sep
		T+2:02 SRM 6-9 burnout
		T+2:07 SRM 6-9 sep
		T+3:43 MECO
		T+3:51 St 1 sep
		T+3:56 St 2 burn
	2303	T+4:19 Fairing sep
	2307	T+8:13 SECO-1	159 x 180 x 28
	2319	T+20:36 SES-2
	2320	T+21:15 SECO-2	180 x 1990? x 28.0
	2321	T+22:06 St 2 sep
	2321	T+22:48 St 3 burn
	2322:34	T+23:32 St 3 burnout
			181 x 35936 x 27.31
	2323:47	T+24:44 St 3 sep	278 x 35463 x 27.4
			184 x 35946 x 27.4 (MOR Post)
	2329?	SES-3?
		SECO-3?	1568 x 3525 x 28.0
1978 May 12	0400?	Apo 1
	1500?	Apo 2
1978 May 13	0200?	Apo 3
	1200?	Apo 4 over 25W
1978 May 13	1210	AKM burn 1797 m/s over 25W?
1978 May 13			1417.70 35072 x 35779 x 0.1 GEO 46.2W+4.6E
1978 May 24			1436.44 35788 x 35798 x 0.1 GEO 10.2E+0.1W
1978 May 27	1100:37	Stationkeeping burn
1978 May 29		On station, ready for service
1978 Jul 19			1436.05 35777 x 35794 x 0.1 GEO 10.2E
1979 Sep			GEO 10E
1981 Mar 13			1436.08 35776 x 35796 x 0.0 GEO 9.9E
1981 Jun			GEO 10E+0.01/d
1982 Mar 27			1436.05 35782 x 35788 x 0.1 GEO 10.0E
1982 Mar		Moved orbit	GEO 10E dr
1982 Apr 20			1436.18 35780 x 35796 x 0.0 GEO 5.0E
1982 Apr		On station for Eutelsat ops	GEO 5E
1983 May 3			1436.08 35778 x 35794 x 0.1 GEO 5.0E