HEAO 3

 1979-082A

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High Energy Astronomy Observatory 3 was launched on 1979 Sep 20 at 0527:59 by an Atlas Centaur from Cape Canaveral. Centaur AC-53 delivered HEAO 3 into a 94.4 min, 485 x 501 km x 43.6 deg orbit at 0534 and separated at 0541. It transmitted until 1981 May 20 and reentered on 1981 Dec 7.

HEAO 3
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1979 Sep 20	0527:59	Launch by AC-53
		T+2:20s BECO
		T+2:21 Booster sep
		T+3:05 Insulation panels sep
	0532:07	T+4:08 SECO
		T+4:10s Atlas sep
		T+4:21s Centaur MES
	0532:32s	T+4:33s Fairing
	0539:39	MES+7:03 or T+11:40 Centaur MECO
		M+14:18 Solar panels deploy
	0551:49?	T+23:50? Centaur sep	94.4 485 x 501 x 43.6
1981 May 20		end of ops
1981 Dec 7		Reentered

Ekran 4

 1979-087A

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Ekran 4 was launched on 1979 Oct 3 by Proton from Baikonur.

Ekran No. 17L
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1979 Oct 3	1712	Launch by Proton-K	KB
	1721	Stage 3 sep
	1829?	DM burn 1
	2345?	DM burn 2
	2349?	DM sep
1979 Oct 12			1435.96 35704 x 35863 x 0.5 GEO 99.0E
1980 May 7			1436.26 35726 x 35852 x 0.0 GEO 99.1E
1981 Jan 22			1436.24 35749 x 35829 x 0.6 GEO 99.3E
1981 Feb 11			1436.34 35757 x 35825 x 0.6 GEO 98.2E+0.07W
1981 Mar 11			1436.10 35746 x 35826 x 0.7 GEO 98.9E+0.01W
1981 Mar 26			1436.17 35738 x 35838 x 0.7 GEO 98.9E+0.03W
1981 Mar?		drifting
1981 Jul 20			1436.76 35759 x 35839 x 1.0 GEO 87.3E+0.17W
1982 Apr 12			1436.08 35706 x 35865 x 1.5 GEO 50.7E
1987 Jun 10			1435.52 35768 x 35781 x 6.1 GEO 88.4E+0.13E
1990 Mar 12			1436.67 35765 x 35830 x 8.6 GEO 87.9E+0.15W

Kosmos 635

  1974-014A

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Kosmos-635 flew a 12 day mission from Plesetsk in Mar 1974. A TG beacon was recorded by the Kettering Group.

Kosmos-635
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1974 Mar 14	1030	Launch by 11A57	NIIP-53
	1034	Blok-I burn
	1038	Blok-I sep
	1315		89.79 202 x 325 x 72.8
1974 Mar 16	0930		89.82 204 x 326 x 72.8
1974 Mar 18	1135		89.75 202 x 322 x 72.8
1974 Mar 18		Capsule sep
1974 Mar 25	1537		89.67 201 x 314 x 72.8
1974 Mar 26	0458?	Retrofire
	0508?	PO sep
	0514?	Entry
	0530?	Landed after 11.79d

Mercury Atlas 4

  1961-025A

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Spacecraft 8 was refurbished as Spacecraft 8A, and was relaunched at 1404 on 1961 Sep 13. It became the first Mercury in orbit, and was recovered from the Atlantic after a 109 minute trip around the Earth. The astronaut simulator was again carried. Splashdown was 283 km E of Bermuda (about 32N 60W). Retrofire is at an angle of 34 deg corresponding to a dV of -128, 0, -86 m/s.

MA-3 and MA-4
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1961 Apr 25	1615:00?	Launch by Atlas 100D, LC14
	1615:40?	T+40s LES abort at 4.3 km
	1616	LES sep
		Apogee at 7.3 km
	1622	Splashdown in Atlantic, range 1.8 km
	1633	Helicopter recovery
		Returned to Hangar S
1961 Sep 13	1404	Launch on az 70 deg	LC14
		T+2:11? BECO
	1406?	Booster sep, 66 km alt
	1406?	LES sep
	1409	MECO
	1409	Atlas sep	156 x 248 x 32.8
			161 x 254 (PressConf)
	1533	T+1:28:59 Retrofire
	1534	Retropack sep
	1538	Entry
	1553	Splashdown in Atlantic T+1:49:20
	1714	Recovered by USS Decatur

The 1993 CIA World Factbook

 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/87/87.txt

Spaceflight: October 1994

 https://welib.org/md5/ece078d23c98d6004b82b2a926ccb369

Spaceflight: January 1995

 https://welib.org/md5/565ef2e53a2ad64d9a9014796f252ea6

Town and Country: December 1994

 https://welib.org/md5/95a23f5779606712521c241ab93987dd

Kosmos 1121

 1979-074A

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Kosmos-1121
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1979 Aug 14	1530	Launch by Soyuz	PL
	1538	Blok-I sep
1979 Aug 14			89.58 171x347x67.2
1979 Aug 16			89.62 169x343x67.15
1979 Aug 23			89.58 163x346x67.1 from 89.04 160x294
1979 Aug 30			89.52 169x332x67.14 from 89.18 168x299
1979 Sep 5			89.48 170x328x67.13 from 89.10 163x298
1979 Sep 8			89.61 172x339x67.14 from 89.19 165x304
1979 Sep 13			89.21 166x306x67.14
1979 Sep 16
	0428?	Deorbit
	0440?	Entry
	0452?	Land

Kosmos 1069

 1978-124A

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Kosmos-1069
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1978 Dec 28	1630	Launch by Soyuz	Plesetsk
	1634	Blok-I burn
	1638	Blok-I sep
1978 Dec 28			89.77 243 x 282 x 62.9
1979 Jan 9			89.59 235 x 272 x 62.8
1979 Jan 10
	0730?	Deorbit
	0738?	PO sep
	0750?	Entry
	0803?	Landed

Molniya 162

 1984-089A

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Only two weeks after the launch of the previous Molniya-1, Molniya-1 (F68, N62) was launched. Unusually, the apogee of the spacecraft was raised by 950 km at the end of its mission in 1989.

Molniya-1 F68
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1984 Aug 24	0826:59	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
	0835	T+8:50 Blok-I sep
		T+53:16 BOZ burn
	0921?	T+53:56 BOZ sep
		ML burn
		T+56:46 ML MECO
	0924?	T+56:54 ML sep
1984 Aug			717.7 435 x 39942 x 63.0

Trees and Other Poems

 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/263/263.txt

Kosmos 295

 1969-073A

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DS-P1-Yu No. 29, was a Subgroup 1 mission which overlapped with Kosmos-285. 

Kosmos-295
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1969 Aug 22	1415	Launch by 11K63	PL
	1417	Stage 2 burn
	1422?	Stage 2 sep
1969 Aug 28	0230		91.95 270 x 469 x 71.01
1969 Sep 27		end of ops
1969 Oct 11	0350?	Stage 2 reentered
1969 Dec 1	1800?	Reentered

Kosmos 859

 1976-099A

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Kosmos-859
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1976 Oct 10	0935	Launch by Soyuz-U	Baikonur
	0939	Blok-I burn
	0943	Blok-I sep
1976 Oct 10			89.60 171 x 337 x 65.0
1976 Oct 11			89.59 171 x 336 x 65.0
1976 Oct 12			89.37 171 x 314 x 65.0
1976 Oct 15			89.30 170 x 308 x 65.0
1976 Oct 16			89.34 169 x 314 x 65.0
1976 Oct 18			89.29 169 x 309 x 65.0
1976 Oct 19			89.34 167 x 315 x 65.0
1976 Oct 20			89.31 168 x 312 x 65.0
1976 Oct 21
	0555?	Deorbit
	0605?	PO sep
	0609?	Entry
	0625?	Landed

Jindai

 1986-061C

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The first H-1 test flight used a two-stage variant. The first stage used a Thor MB-3 engine with nine Nissan solid motors. The second stage was the LE-5 liquid engine. Attached to the LE-5 was a small rectangular box, the MABES (Magnetic Bearing Flywheel Experimental System) experiment. MABES was operated to test attitude control technology and was built by the National Aerospace Lab in Tokyo (NAL). It was named Jindai after launch, Jindai being a kind of cherry tree. Jindai measured a 2-axis magnetic bearing flywheel spinning at 1000 rpm and tested a 400 x 500 pixel CCD star sensor and a linear array sun sensor. The box contained a quartet of NiCd batteries and the spacecraft operated on and off for 3 months.

Jindai (MABES)
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1986 Aug 12	2045:00	Launch by H-1	TNSC
		SOB sep
	2047	Stage 1 sep, LE-5 on at 114 km (T+2:39)
	2055	Stage 2 cutoff (T+10:13), transfer orbit	200? x 1487 x 50.0
	2139	LE-5 restart, 21s (T+54:33)
	2140	LE-5 cutoff	1485 x 1594 x 50.0
	2142?	Ajisai sep
	2145?	Fuji sep
1986 Nov 8	1230	end of ops
1994 Aug 23			115.71 1478 x 1496 x 50.0