Raduga 15

 1984-063A

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Raduga (Gran') No. 27 was launched to the 128E position in Jun 1984.

Raduga No. 27L
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1984 Jun 22	0020	Launch by Proton-K	KB
	0029	Stage 3 sep
	0137?	DM burn 1
	0653?	DM burn 2
	0657?	DM sep
1984 Jun 22			1397.73 35016 x 35047 x 1.3 GEO 97.1E+9.9E
1984 Jun 25			1425.07 35520 x 35620 x 1.3 GEO 122.6E+2.8E
1984 Jun 30			1435.74 35752 x 35807 x 1.3 GEO 127.0E
1984 Aug 5			1436.07 35763 x 35808 x 1.2 GEO 128.5E
1985 Jul 2			1436.34 35781 x 35801 x 0.3 GEO 128.1E
1986 Dec 10			1436.17 35786 x 35789 x 1.0 GEO 128.5E
1988 Apr 7		last mv	1436.36 35778 x 35804 x 2.3 GEO 127.0E+0.05E
1988 Aug 7			1436.21 35782 x 35795 x 2.6 GEO 128.7E+0.03W
1988 Sep?		retired
1988 Oct 8			1436.67 35782 x 35813 x 2.7 GEO 123.4E+0.15W
1991 Apr 14			1435.84 35758 x 35805 x 5.1 GEO 127.9E+0.06E
1992 Aug 25			1436.43 35703 x 35882 x 6.2 GEO 18.7E+0.09W

Giotto

 1985-056A

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Giotto was based on the Geos bus and built by the same BAe/STAR consortium. The probe was built from the Geos engineering model. ESA controlled Giotto from ESOC. Flyby velocity was 68.4 km/s with 596 km closest approach.

Giotto
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1985 Jul 2	1123:13	Launch by Ariane I	CSG
		T+2:25 St 1 MECO
		T+2:30 Stage 2 burn
		T+4:14 Fairing
		T+4:51? St 2 sep
		T+4:55? Stage 3 burn 9:21?
	1137	T+14:16? Stage 3 MECO
	1138?	Stage 3 sep	203 x 35421 x 7.0
	1139	Perigee
	1145	AOS by Malindi
	1650	Spin axis slew
1985 Jul 2	1700?	Apogee 1
1985 Jul 2	2110	Perigee 1, 202 km
	2210	Perigee 1 from TLE
1985 Jul 3	0230?	Apogee 2
	0844	Perigee 2 from TLE
	1400?	Apogee 2
		Spinup
	1914	Perigee 3 from TLE 2
	1918	Perigee 3 from TLE 1
	1923:47	Mage 1S perigee burn 1.40km/s	Solar orbit
	1924:42	Burnout (55s)
1985 Jul 4	0333?	Pass EL1:4
1985 Jul 4	0730	Nozzle cover closed
1985 Jul 6	0947	HGA release
		Begin cruise, mass 578.5 kg
1985 Jul 8	0230?	Pass L1
1985 Jul 15		3.43Mkm range
1985 Aug 26		TCM-1, 7.27m/s, 92 min
1985 Oct 2		Range 20.235Mkm to Earth
1986 Jan 24		Antenna lock loss, recovered by DSN
1986 Mar 12	0053	TCM 2.5m/s
	0125	TCM complete
1986 Mar 13	1816	(ERT) PKS gets signal
1986 Mar 13		Encounter P/Halley at 0.90AU, vrel 68.4 km/s
		Mass 573.9 kg
	2356:58	First bumper shield penetration
1986 Mar 14	0002:52	Last image
	0002:52	Hit by 1g of particles
	0002:55	Loss of signal
1986 Mar 14	0003:02	Passed 596 km from nucleus
	0003:19	Signal recovered
	0004:34	Spacecraft nutating
	0034:58	Spacecraft recovered
1986 Mar 19		TCM 4h30m, 63 m/s, 19 kg
1986 Mar 20		TCM 4:10min, 46m/s, 14 kg
1986 Mar 21		TCM 16min, 2.6m/s, 1 kg	0.833 yr 0.733 x 1.04 AU
1986 Apr 1		TCM 1.5m/s
1986 Apr 2		TCM 1.3m/s?
1986 Apr 2	0225	Deactivated
1990 Feb 20		Reactivated by DSN/Madrid, R=102.9 Mkm Rdot=14.54km/s Vsun=37.36km/s
1990 Feb 21		HGA despin attempts
1990 Feb 25	1745	ESOC resumes control
		HMC and NMS deactivates
1990 Mar 3		Perihelion
1990 Mar 13		TCM to retarget for Grigg-Skjellerup
1990 Jul 2	1001:18	Flyby Earth, 22730 km over Australia	390d?
		Inc = 45 deg
1990 Jul 16		TCM 0.5m/s
1990 Jul 22		Hibernation mode
1992 Apr		Reactivated
1992 May 22		TCM, 3.5m/s targeting to 800 km
1992 Jul 1		Science instruments on
1992 Jul 8		TCM, 2m/s targeting to 200 km
1992 Jul 10	1519	Encounter P/Grigg-Skjellerup 200 km, at 1.01 AU from Sun LT=24min
		Rel 13.99 km/s
1992 Jul 11		Experiments off
1992 Jul 21		TCM, target to Earth swingby, 4h burn 33m/s
1992 Jul 23		TCM correction 3m/s
1992 Jul 23		In hibernation mode

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Kosmos 1732

 1986-015A

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Kosmos-1732
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1986 Feb 11	0656	Launch by 11K68	PL
		T+2:00 St 1 sep
		T+3:33 GO sep
		T+4:38 St 2 sep
		T+5:19 S5M burn 1,
	0702	T+6:48 S5M MECO-1	90? x 1502 x 73.6
		T+49:37 BOZ burn
		T+51:15 S5M MES2
		T+51:33 S5M MECO2
	0748	T+52:03 S5M sep
1986 Feb 11			1480x1525x73.6
1988 Jul		end of ops

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Crystal 8

 1987-090A

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The next KH-11 went up in Oct 1987 and was given the official designation USA 27. It flew in the 1300 LTDN east plane orbit. 

CRYSTAL 8
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1987 Oct 26	2132	Launch by Titan 34D	V SLC4E
	2133	Core engines on (T+1:47)
	2133	SRM jettison (T+1:56) at 39 km
	2136?	T+4:34? Stage 1 sep
	2136?	Stage 2 ignition (T+4:34?)
	2136?	Fairing sep (T+4:46?)
	2139?	Stage 2 cutoff (T+8:09?)
	2140?	Stage 2 sep (T+8:21?)
			153 x 1029 x 97.8 (UN)
			143 x 1018 x 97.8 (UN, 90B)
1990 May 28			97.54 307x973x97.96
1991 May 25			97.43 339x932x97.75
1991 Jul 9			97.26 322x932x97.70

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