Kosmos 1045

 1978-100A

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Kosmos-1045 was a mockup (GVM) of a Meteor-2 satellite, launched on a test flight of the Tsiklon-3 launch vehicle. It carried small solar panels and also carried a DOSAAF amateur radio payload which was given the callsign RS-2 (originally it was to be RS-3.)

The satellite released the Radio-1 and Radio-2 amateur satellites. Object E, cataloged around Dec 1978, has only a few element sets which have epochs in mid 1980. Later element sets attributed to this object are in a lower orbit and belong to a Strela-1M launch.

Kosmos-1045
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1978 Oct 26	0700	Launch by Tsiklon-3	PL
		T+2:00 St 1 sep
		T+3:33 GO sep
		T+4:38 St 2 sep
		T+5:20 S5M burn 1 ?
		T+7m? S5M MECO1
		T+42m? S5M burn 2
		T+42m? S5M MECO2
		T+43m? S5M sep
		T+45m? RS-1 and RS-2 sep
1978 Oct 26			120.4 1689x1710x82.6