Mercury Redstone 2

  1961-S31

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MR-2 was launched on 1961 Jan 31 carrying the chimpanzee Ham. The LOX supply depleted early, and the final velocity was high at 2.62 km/s. The capsule separated early, the escape tower fired adding 150 m/s, and the retros jettisoned without firing, letting MR-2 reach -6200 x 251 km x 30.7 deg. Cabin pressure was lost during ascent but Ham's suit protected him. Range was 679 km.

MR-2
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1961 Jan 13	1654:51	Launch	CC
	1657:08	T+2:17 Redstone MECO
	1657:09	T+2:18 Escape tower burn
		Apogee 252.2 km
	1704:11	T+9:20 Entry
	1705:45	Drogue parachute
	1706:19	Main parachute
	1711:20	T+16:29 Splashdown
	2040	Spacecraft recovered by LSD Donner

Molniya 138

 1977-082A

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Molniya-1 (F43, N38) was launched on 1977 Aug 30 from Plesetsk into the F plane.

Molniya-1 F43
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1977 Aug 30	1806	Launch by 8K78M	PL
		BVGD sep
		GO sep
		T+4:46 Blok A sep
		T+4:56 KhO sep
		T+8:46 Blok-I MECO
	1814	T+8:50 Blok-I sep
		T+53:16 BOZ burn
	1859?	T+53:56 BOZ sep
		ML burn
		T+56:46 ML MECO
	1902?	T+56:54 ML sep
1977 Aug 31			735.6 445 x 40785 x 62.8

Kosmos 388

 1970-112A

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Kosmos-388 was a subgroup 1 DS-P1-Yu satellite, launched in Dec 1970.

Kosmos-388
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1970 Dec 18	0939	Launch by 11K63	PL
	0941	Stage 2 burn
	0946?	Stage 2 sep
1970 Dec 20	0700		92.32 271 x 505 x 71.0 (RAE)
1971 Mar 1	0000		91.51 257 x 439 x 71.0 (RAE)
1971 May 4		End of operations
1971 May 10	1912?	Reentered

Kosmos 467

 1971-113A

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Kosmos-467 was launched in Dec 1971. It was a subgroup 1 mission of the DS-P1-Yu series.

Kosmos-467
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1971 Dec 17	1040	Launch by 11K63	PL
	1042	Stage 2 burn
	1047?	Stage 2 sep
1971 Dec 23	1430		91.95 267 x 472 x 71.0 (RAE)
1972 Feb 15	1200		91.44 260 x 430 x 71.0 (RAE)
1972 Feb		End of operations
1972 Apr 18	0600?	Reentered