Corona 103

 1965-102A

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KH-4A Mission 1027 (CORONA 103) was launched on 1965 Dec 9 by TAT Agena D from Vandenberg. The vehicle carried camera system JX-27, the modified MURAL M-27 upgraded to a J-1. Both SRVs were recovered but each mission lasted a single day because of attitude control problems on the Agena. Control gas was exhausted on rev 15, with the photo mission terminated at that point. It had the last few pan frames of 1027-1 and the stellar index material for mission 1027-2. 20 of 46 targets observed by mission 1027 were judged to be good. Data on the USSR, Africa and South America was obtained.

KH-4A Mission 1027
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1965 Dec 9	2110:19	Launch by Thor SLV-2A Agena D	V SLC2 Pad 5
	2111:24	Castor sep (T+1:05)
	2112:49	Thor MECO (T+2:30)
	2112:58	Thor VECO (T+2:39)
	2113:04	Thor sep (T+2:45)
	2113:10	Agena burn (T+2:51)
	2117:11	Agena MECO (T+6:52)	90.84 183 x 452 x 80.06 (VCR)
	2117?	Stabilization system malfunction
1965 Dec 10		Control gas exhausted
1965 Dec 10	1430		90.72 183 x 437 x 80.0 (RAE)
1965 Dec 10	2300??	SRV-1 ejected rev 17 using Lifeboat system
1965 Dec 10		SRV-1 recovered
		22 22N 151 50W
1965 Dec 11	2300??	SRV-2 ejected rev 33
	SRV-2 recovered
1965 Dec 15			90.5 181 x 421 x 80.0 (SSR)
1965 Dec 26	1550?	Reentered