Wednesday, February 21, 1990

Kosmos 461

 1971-105A


The DS-U2-MT No. 1 satellite (Meteoritniy) carried a micrometeorite detector and a gamma ray burst spectrometer. It was launched in Dec 1971 on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk into an orbit with the unusual inclination of 69 degrees and named Kosmos-461.


Kosmos-461 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1971 Dec 2  1730  Launch by 11K65M  PL  
 1732 Stage 2 burn  
 1737?  Stage 2 coast 
 1802?  Stage 2 burn 2  
 1802? Stage 2 sep  
1971 Dec 5  1200   94.61 488 x 511 x 69.23 (RAE) 
1972 Dec 14   End of operations 
1979 Feb 21   Reentered

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