Tuesday, January 2, 1996

Kosmos 462

  1971-106A


IS satellite Kosmos-462 was launched on 1971 Dec 3 from Baikonur. It made a fast pass at perigee of the Kosmos-459 target satellite which had been launched from Plesetsk several days earlier. The satellite then exploded.

The object cataloged as 106B may be the R-36 second stage or else just a fragment; it was in a higher apogee orbit of 167 x 2069 km x 65.8 deg, but TLEs for the following month show a lower apogee and the initial data may be erroneous. 106C/5650 is in the SSR as "SL-11 R/B(1)" and 106M/5664 is "SL-11 R/B(2)".


Kosmos-462 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1971 Dec 3  1319:22 Launch by 11K69  KB  
 1321 Stage 2 burn  
 1324? Stage 2 sep 
 1324? DU burn  
   101.96 143 x 1561 x 62.3 (RAE, 106B) 
   231 x 1654 x 65.88 (NLJ) 
 1651  Intercepted Kosmos-459 at 231 km over 8.7E 52.4N 
 1651  Exploded 
1971 Dec 5  2130   105.43 230 x 1800 x 65.75

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