Tuesday, February 20, 1996

Prognoz 9

 1983-067A


Prognoz-9 used the same bus as the other Prognoz satellites, and also carried solar and plasma detectors, but its primary mission was quite different. The spacecraft was placed in a much more elliptical orbit with an apogee at twice the distance to the Moon. From this deep space vantage point, Prognoz-9 operated the RELIKT experiment, which attempted to measure the quadrupole moment of the cosmic microwave background.


Prognoz-9 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1983 Jul 1  1217 Launch by Molniya-M  KB 
 1226 Blok-I sep 
  BOZ sep 
 1334? Blok-L burn 
  Blok-L MECO 
  Blok-L sep 
   27d 380 x 720000 x 65.5 
1983 Jul 2  0338  Pass EL1:4 
1983 Jul 3  0000  Height 263000 km  
1983 Jul 14  0800  Apogee 1 at 713700 km  
1983 Jul 26   Perigee 2  
1983 Aug 9   Apogee 2, 702100 km  
1983 Aug 22  0130?  Perigee 3 
1983 Sep 3  1148? Apogee 3, 670300 km  
1983 Sep 16  0720? Perigee 4, 47700 km  
1983 Sep 28  0200? Apogee 4, 646800 km  

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