Saturday, October 29, 1988

Kosmos 374

  1970-089A


The third IS satellite intercepted the Kosmos-373 target on the second revolution, and then exploded. The TLEs are consistent with a launch directly into the intercept orbit. The IS initially entered a 530 x 1052 km orbit and then at the time of the explosion entered an orbit with 2100 km apogee.


Kosmos-374 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1970 Oct 23  0443  Launch by 11K69  KB 
 0445  Stage 2 burn  
 0448?  Stage 2 sep  120? x 530?  
 0534?  Apogee 1, DU burn 1  500 x 530 ?  
 0626  DU burn 2? 
 0626  Intercept orbit perigee 
 0718  Apogee 2 
 0751   100.69 529 x 1052 x 63.0 
 0809?  Flyby of Kosmos-373 
 0810  Explosion at 540 km over 33E 59N  
 0943   112.25 528 x 2131 x 62.94 
1970 Oct 26  0259  (DU orbit)  111.83 514 x 2106 x 62.9 
1970 Oct 30  0500   112.26 521 x 2141 x 62.95

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