Sunday, October 2, 1994

Prognoz 6

 1977-093A


Prognoz-6 was launched in Sep 1977. It carried a new set of experiments including the Galaktika detector which studied diffuse ultraviolet emission from the Earth's corona and the interstellar medium.


Prognoz-6 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1977 Sep 22  0051 Launch by Molniya-M  KB 
 0059  Blok-I MECO 
 0059  Blok I sep 
 0157? T+1:06 Blok L burn 
 0201? T+1:10 Blok L MECO 
 0221? T+1:22? Blok-L burn (based on archive orbit) 
 0222  Perigee over 80W 58S RA 316.0 
 0224? Blok-L MECO 
 0224?  Blok-L sep 
 2031? Pass EL1:4 
1977 Sep 22    5688.0 488 x 197867 x 65.0 
1978 Jan 26   end of ops
1992 Jul 18  5685.1 1149 x 183125 x 88.6 

Payload:

  • Galaktika Lyman alpha geocorona and ISM, 1300-1800A (LAS-Marseille/Crimea/)

  • RF-2 Solar X photometer 2.2-100 keV, 6 bands (Ioffe/Archangelsky)

    • Prop counters RD-1, RD-2, RD-3, 2-30 keV in 4 bands, 4cm2 at 20 keV

    • NaI(Tl) Scintillators, 20-200 keV

  • Interplanetary Helium expt (CNES/)

  • Gemeaux-S2 (CNES/) solar cosmic ray flux

  • SIGNE-2MP Gamma ray burst monitor (CNES/)

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