Saturday, December 25, 1993

Kosmos 723

  1975-024A


Kosmos-723 and its partner Kosmos-724 may have monitored the USSR's Okean-75 naval exercise. The first elset in the high orbit was at 0730 UTC on May 16; this is given in the RAE tables as the time of the orbit change but my analysis suggests that a burn around 1720-1730 UTC on May 15 is more likely.


Kosmos-723 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1975 Apr 2  1100:00 Launch by Tsiklon-2 KB 
 1102  Stage 1 sep 
 1104  Stage 2 sep  -800? x 265 x 65 
 1114? DU burn  
 1124? Stage 2 reentry 
1975 Apr 2    89.65 246 x 267 x 65.0 
1975 Apr 9    89.65 250 x 263 x 65.0 
1975 Apr 24    89.65 251 x 267 x 65.0 
1975 May 15  1728?  Reactor raise 258 x 919 x 647 
 1814?  DV2 
1975 May 15  2042   89.66 253 x 261 x 65.0 
1975 May 15  2042  (D) DU orbit  253 x 261 x 65.01 
1975 May 16  0111  (B) RLS orbit  249 x 258 x 65.0 
1975 May 16  0732   103.72 916 x 951 x 64.7 
1975 May 15   (D) 89.66 253 x 261 x 65.0 
1975 Jun 30   (D) 88.84 211 x 222 x 65.0 
1975 Jul 8   (D) 88.42 188 x 203 x 65.0 
1975 Jul 15  Main craft reentered after 104d 
1993 Oct 21    103.67 905 x 957 x 64.7

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