Tuesday, August 8, 1989

Molniya 161

 1984-085A


Molniya-1 (F67, N61) was launched in Aug 1984. It replaced N53 in the D plane on Dec 4 after an unusually long drift period. At the end of its mission the apogee was lowered slightly.


Molniya-1 F67 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1984 Aug 10  0003:58 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 
 0012  T+8:50 Blok-I sep 
  T+53:16 BOZ burn 
 0058?  T+53:56 BOZ sep 
  ML burn 
  T+56:46 ML MECO 
 0103?  T+56:54 ML sep   
1984 Oct 11   Mv up  713 min 
1984 Dec 4   On station  717 min  
1988 Nov 24    718.64 774 x 39622 x 63.4 

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Kosmos 268

 1969-020A


DS-P1-Yu No. 18 was the second member of Subgroup 3, the Kapustin Yar launches with 2000 km apogees.


Kosmos-268 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1969 Mar 5  1305  Launch by 11K63  GTsP4 
 1307  Stage 2 burn 
 1312? Stage 2 sep  109.14 209 x 2173 x 48.40 (RAE) 
1969 Jun 16    105.08 209 x 1795 x 48.37 (RAE) 
1969 Jul 3   End of operations 
1969 Dec 16    100.29 202 x 1348 x 48.30 (RAE) 
1970 Feb 11   R/B decay over IOR 
1970 May 9  0755? Reentered 

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Ad Astra: February 1989

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Kosmos 893

 1977-011A


In Feb 1977 a GVM (mass mockup) of the DS-U2-IK satellite was launched into elliptical orbit on an 11K65M Kosmos-3M rocket.


Kosmos-893 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1977 Feb 15  1100  Launch by 11K65M  NIIP-53 LC132/2 
 1102  Stage 2 burn  
 1108? Stage 2 shutdown 
   105.3 332 x 1680 x 74.0 
1984 Oct 6   Reentered 

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