Friday, August 21, 1992
Tuesday, August 18, 1992
Venera 1
1961-003A
The 643 kg 1VA No. 2 probe was intended to make the first Venus flyby. It was successfully launched into solar orbit, but stopped transmitting two weeks after launch due to a thermal control failure. The Soviet press referred to the probe as Avtomaticheskaya Mezhplanetaya Stantsiya `Venera' (the `Venera' Automatic Interplanetary Station). In later years it was retrospectively renamed Venera-1.
The probe was 2.0m long 1.05m dia with a 2.4m antenna.
Solar orbit was 106 x 151 Mkm x 0.5 deg. i.e. 0.708 x 1.01 AU
| AMS Venera | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 Feb 12 | 0034:36 | Launch by 8K78 | KB |
| 0039:36 | T+5:00 Blok-I burn | ||
| 0043:36 | T+9:00 Blok-I MECO | ||
| 0043 | Blok-I sep | 229 x 282 x 65.0 | |
| 0134 | BOZ operation | ||
| 0134 | Blok-L burn | ||
| 0134 | BOZ sep | ||
| 0138 | Blok-L sep | ||
| Solar orbit insertion | |||
| 0900 | 126300 km over 86.67E 6.07N | ||
| 1961 Feb 13 | 0900 | 486000 km over 88.03E 0.88N at 4.050 km/s | |
1961 Feb 14 | 1900 | Leave Earth sphere | |
| 1961 Feb 17 | 1104 | 1.889 Mkm from Earth -0.65S 54.62E v=3.923 km/s | |
| 1961 Feb 19 | 0900 | 2.537 Mkm from Earth | |
| 1961 Feb 21 | 0300 | 3.4 Mkm from Earth | |
| 1961 Feb 27 | End of transmissions | ||
| 1961 Mar 2 | Contact efforts ended | ||
| 1961 Mar 3 | 0900 | 6.683M km over 1.25S 69.5E at 4.166 km/s | |
| 1961 Apr 13 | 28M km | ||
| 1961 May 3 | 47M km | ||
| 1961 May 20 | Pass Venus at 180000 km? | ||
Monday, August 17, 1992
Kosmos 1740
1986-029A
Two-tone telemetry; Medium res satellite
| Kosmos-1740 | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 Apr 15 | 1140 | Launch by Soyuz | PL |
| 1144 | Blok I burn | ||
| 1148 | Blok I MECO | ||
| 1986 Apr 15 | 90.14 196 x 366 x 72.9 | ||
| 1986 Apr 16 | 0325? | Orbit raise | 92.26 354 x 415 x 72.9 |
| 1986 Apr 27 | 92.27 355 x 415 x 72.9 | ||
| 1986 Apr 28 | |||
| 0630? | Deorbit | ||
| 0640? | PO sep | ||
| 0655? | Entry | -74 x 260 x 72.9 | |
| 0710? | Landed | ||
Molniya 144
1979-070A
Molniya-1 F49 was launched in 1979 Jul from Plesetsk. It entered plane G.
| Molniya-1 F49 | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 Jul 31 | 0356 | 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 | |||
| 0404 | T+8:50 Blok-I sep | ||
| T+53:16 BOZ burn | |||
| 0449? | T+53:56 BOZ sep | ||
| ML burn | |||
| T+56:46 ML MECO | |||
| 0452? | T+56:54 ML sep | ||
| 1979 Aug 7 | 717.88 427 x 39932 x 62.9 | ||
| 1979 Aug 31 | 717.73 457 x 39894 x 62.9 | ||
Sunday, August 16, 1992
Kosmos 357
1970-063A
DS-P1-Yu No. 40, Kosmos-357 was launched on a subgroup 1 DS-P1-Yu mission in Aug 1970. It reentered in Nov 1970.
| Kosmos-357 | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 Aug 19 | 1500 | Launch by 11K63 | PL |
| 1502 | Stage 2 burn | ||
| 1507? | Stage 2 sep | ||
| 1970 Aug 21 | 0200 | 82.04 272 x 476 x 70.99 | |
| 1970 Oct 18 | end of ops | ||
| 1970 Nov 24 | 2219? | Reentered | |