Zond 7

  1969-067A

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L-1 No.11 was launched on 1969 Aug 7. This was the most successful Zond flight, returning spectacular color photos of the Moon and Earth.

Zond-7
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1969 Aug 7	2348:06	Launch by Proton-K	KB
	2357	Stage 3 MECO
	2358	Coast
1969 Aug 8
	0001?	Blok D MES-1
	0003?	Blok D MECO-1	194 x 212 x 51.6
	0103	Blok D MES-2
	0106	Asc node
	0110?	Blok D MECO-2	200 x 400000? x 51.6
1969 Aug 8	0552	Begin Earth photos
	0626	End Earth photos
1969 Aug 9	0328	TCM
1969 Aug 11	0430?	Lunar flyby 2200 km
1969 Aug 12	0646	TCM
1969 Aug 14	1740?	PAO sep
	1746	Skip reentry begins over 44S 67E
	1754	Apogee
	1801	Second entry
	1820	Landed south of Kustanai

Kosmos 1220

 1980-089A

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Kosmos-1220 carried out a standard mission and was maneuvered out of the operational orbit after 4 months. 

Kosmos-1220
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1980 Nov 4	1504	Launch by 11K69	Baikonur
	1506	Stage 1 sep
	1508	Stage 2 sep
	1552?	AKM burn
1980 Nov 4			93.3 427x440x65.0
1981 Mar 27			mv 406x465x65.0, inactive
1981 Apr 2			571x883x65.0
1982 Jun 20	1835	Exploded 878 km above 10.0S 28.2W, in 73 pieces
1982 Dec 15	0600	89AS reentered
1989 Feb 16	0140	Kosmos-1220 reentered over Arabia

Kosmos 2021

 1989-037A

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Kometa No. 11 flew as Kosmos-2021 in May 1989. It was object 20000 in the US satellite catalog.

Kosmos-2021
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1989 May 24	1030:00	Launch by Soyuz-U	Baikonur
	1034	Blok-I burn
	1039	Blok-I sep
1989 May 24			89.23 196x278x70.0
1989 May 25			89.52 218x284x70.0 from 89.23 195x278
1989 May 25			89.39 213x276x70.0
1989 May 28			89.33 211x272x70.0
1989 May 31			89.43 214x279x70.0
1989 Jun 6			89.49 215x283x70.0 from 89.21 207x265
1989 Jun 11			89.62 232x280x70.0 from 89.21 207x265
1989 Jun 18			89.65 214x299x69.9 from 89.28 199x278
1989 Jun 25			89.58 209x298x69.9 from 89.34 201x282
1989 Jul 4			89.75 223x301x69.9 from 89.37 206x280
1989 Jul 5			89.55 212x292x69.9
1989 Jul 6
	2308?	Deorbit
	2328?	Entry
	2342?	Landed

TV-Sat 1

 1987-095A

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The Deutsche Bundespost (DBP Telekom) ordered two direct broadcast satellites from MBB and Aerospatiale's Eurosatellite consortium. The Spacebus 300 class TV-SAT was launched in Nov 1987 but a solar panel failed to open. The satellite was used for systems tests by GSOC.

TV-SAT
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1987 Nov 21	0219:03	Launch by Ariane V20	CSG
		T+2:22 St 1 sep
		T+2:25 St 2 MES
		T+3:35 Fairing
		T+4:33 St 2 sep
	0223:41	T+4:38 St 3 MES
	0235:40	T+16:37 St 3 MECO
	0238:22	T+19:19 TVSAT H10 sep
	0239:22	T+20:19 H10 avoidance
	0244	Solar panel failed to deploy
			200 x 36136 x 4.0
	0800?	Apo 1
	1300?	Peri 1
	1800?	Apo 2
	2330?	Peri 2
1987 Nov 22	0500?	Apo 3
	1030?	Peri 3
	1600?	Apo 4
1987 Nov 22	1459s	T+36:40s Apo 4 LAM-1 burn 60min	12200? x 35780?
	2300?	Peri 4
1987 Nov 23	0600?	Apo 5 over 108E
	1400?	Peri 5
	2100?	Apo 6 over 112W
1987 Nov 23	2039s	T+66:20 LAM-2 burn 35min	19200? x 35780?
1987 Nov 24	0700?	Peri 6
	1500?	Apo 7 over 15W
	2330?	Peri 7
1987 Nov 25
	0800?	Apo 8 87E
	1700?	Peri 8
1987 Nov 26	0100?	Apo 9
	1000?	Peri 9
	1700?	Apo 10
1987 Nov 26	1619s?	T+134h LAM-3 burn
1987 Nov 30			1422.72 35216 x 35831 x 0.1 GEO 1.1W+3.4E
1987 Dec 27			1422.62 35222 x 35822 x 0.1 GEO 89.4E+3.4E
1988 Feb 4			1435.08 35713 x 35819 x 0.1 GEO 33.2W+0.2E
1988 Feb		Turned over to GSOC for engineering tests
1988 Apr 13		mv in
1988 Apr 14			1436.02 35772 x 35797 x 0.1 GEO 19.2W+0.01E
1988 May 23			1435.93 35778 x 35788 x 0.0 GEO 18.5W
1988 Jun 27		orbit raise
1988 Jul 13			1447.68 36002 x 36024 x 0.1
1988 Sep 18			1435.34 35569 x 35973 x 0.1 GEO 41.7W+0.2E
1988 Oct			1433.68 35482x35996x0.1 GEO23W+0.6/d
1988 Dec 10			1433.70 35473 x 36006 x 0.1 GEO 5.1E+0.6E
1989 Feb 18			1433.18 35448 x 36011 x 0.2 GEO 51.6E+0.7E

Molniya 218

  1976-116A

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Molniya-2 F18 was launched in Dec 1976; the 8K78M launch vehicle placed the satellite in a 736 min transfer orbit in plane C.

Molniya-2 F18
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1976 Dec 2	0245	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
	0253	T+8:50 Blok-I sep
		T+53:16 BOZ burn
	0338	T+53:56 BOZ sep
		ML burn
		T+56:46 ML MECO
	0341	T+56:54 ML sep
			735.7 637 x 40599 x 62.9
1976 Dec			717.9 575 x 39789 x 62.6
1978 Jan		end of ops
1990 Feb 21		Reentered