TeamNathanFTW’s New and Improved Blog : June 1996

Friday, June 28, 1996

Kosmos 397

1971-015A

Kosmos-397 carried out a slow pass interception of Kosmos-394 on its second revolution, and then exploded.

The target was in a 570 x 610 km orbit. If we look at the post-explosion elements for the payload, it passes through that altitude from 1422 to 1433 UTC on Feb 25, with closest approach at 1431 UTC; my inaccurate software gives a closest approach of 12 km at an altitude of around 590 km over 26E 57N.

At this time the stage 2 orbit was near perigee; we must assume an IS interception burn near apogee, possibly at first apogee at around 1210 UTC over the Antarctic.

NL Johnson suggests a 585 x 1000 km interception orbit, but this doesn't match the times - a lower apogee is needed to connect with the R/B orbit. The R/B is at apogee in the range 1150 to 1215 UTC; if the intercept is at 1431 then we need an orbit with a period of 140 - 166 min and thus an apogee above 5000 km exceeding the IS capability. I think it's more likely that the IS circularized its orbit near the target, which allows an intercept at the correct time.

Date	Time	Event	Orbit

Kosmos-397



1971 Feb 25	1111	Launch by 11K69	KB
	1113	Stage 2 burn
	1116?	Stage 2 sep	92.3 144 x 629 x 65.1
	1210?	DU burn	590? x 610? x 65.1
			575 x 1000? x 62.8 (NLJ)
	1431?	Intercept Kosmos-394
	1432?	Exploded
1971 Feb 26	1837		113.50 574 x 2199 x 65.8
1971 Mar 6	1430		113.51 574 x 2202 x 65.73 (RAE)

Tuesday, June 25, 1996

Kosmos 2052

1989-095A

Date	Time	Event	Orbit

Kosmos-2052



1989 Nov 30	1500:01	Launch by Soyuz	KB
	1508?	Blok-I sep
1989 Nov 30			89.40 160x329x67.14
1989 Nov 30.7			89.55 163x341x67.1
1989 Dec 4.1			89.81 179x350x67.1 from 89.29 159x318
1989 Dec 10.0			89.14 167x297x67.1 from 89.48 171x325
1989 Dec 13.2			89.24 171x302x67.1 from 88.86 161x275
1989 Dec 15.0			89.77 177x348x67.1 from 89.08 168x289
1989 Dec 20		SpK-1 fiducial
1989 Dec 22.9			89.58 175x331x67.1 from 89.09 165x293
1989 Dec 27.9			90.00 180x368x67.1 from 89.11 166x295
1990 Jan 6.2			89.76 178x346x67.1 from 89.07 169x287
1990 Jan 10		SpK-2 fiducial
1990 Jan 11.0			90.13 174x387x67.1 from 89.39 173x315
1990 Jan 17.9			89.22 171x300x67.1 from 89.69 171x346
1990 Jan 21.9			89.15 161x304x67.1 from 88.72 161x261
1990 Jan 23.7			88.87 156x280x67.1
1990 Jan 24
	2010?	Deorbit
	2023?	Entry
	2035?	Landed

Saturday, June 22, 1996

Lois Strikes Back

https://welib.org/md5/2cd2d90d0947ace8dd2b9e827cd996d9

Friday, June 21, 1996

Soyuz TM-11

1990-107A

Soyuz TM-11 (7K-STM 11F732 No. 61) was launched on a flight funded by TBS, Japan's Tokyo Broadcasting System. TBS journalist Toyohiro Akiyama accompanied Viktor Afanas'ev and Musa Manarov to the Mir complex.

Date	Time	Event	Orbit

Soyuz TM-11, Flight 1



1990 Dec 2	0813:30	Launch by Soyuz-U	KB
	0821	Blok-I sep	88.67 193 x 224 x 51.81
	1430		90.35 274 x 308 x 51.61
1990 Dec 3	1430		90.38 278 x 307 x 51.6
1990 Dec 4			90.37 277 x 307 x 51.61
	0957:10	Docked with Mir -X
	1430		82.32 371 x 405 x 51.61
	1645	Hatch open, crew to Mir

Date	Time	Event

Soyuz TM-11, Flight 2



1991 Mar 26	1030	Hatch closed
	1145	Undocked
	1210	Auto dock at +X fails, manual approach
	1218	Docked +X, 45 min flight
	1255	Hatch open

Date	Time	Event

Soyuz TM-11, Flight 3



1991 May 26	0335	Hatch closed, Crew Afanas'ev, Manarov, Sharman
	0613	Undocked
	0620	Flyaround to inspect aft port
	0638	Sep burn
	0912	Deorbit
	0938	BO, PAO sep
	0942	Entry
	0950	Parachute deploy
	1004:48	Landed

Thursday, June 20, 1996

Spaceflight: January 1996

https://welib.org/md5/688ca2e36f48e0ca6d4ad97f87d5a31e

Kosmos 2209

1992-059A

This mission saw the third use of the 5th orbit northbound equator crossing burn.

Date	Time	Event	Orbit

Kosmos-2209



1992 Sep 10	1801:18	Launch by Proton	KB
	1810	Stage 3 sep
1992 Sep 10	1918	First NEC
1992 Sep 10	2045	NEC 2
1992 Sep 10	2215	NEC 3
1992 Sep 10	2344	NEC 4
1992 Sep 11	0111?	NEC 5
1992 Sep 11	0111?	DM burn 1
	0728?	DM burn 2 over 14W
	0730?	DM sep
1992 Sep 11			1446.03 35902 x 36058 x 1.4 GEO 15.2W+2.5W
1992 Sep 18			1435.98 35763 x 35806 x 1.3 GEO 23.8W+0.02E
1992 Sep 30			1436.02 35764 x 35806 x 1.3 GEO 23.5W
1992 Oct 19			1436.12 35766 x 35808 x 1.3 GEO 23.5W
1993 Nov 24			1436.18 35786 x 35789 x 0.4 GEO 24.1W
1995 Mar 30			1436.09 35764 x 35808 x 0.7 GEO 23.3W
1995 Sep 1			1436.10 35773 x 35800 x 1.0 GEO 24.3W

Space movies : classic science films collected and edited by Peter Haining

https://welib.org/md5/96ca6ee674c95799ead6b9f934544cb8

Aviation Week: April 8,1996

https://welib.org/md5/c6276fb854f17ebb8416024496c317e8

Seventeen: January 1996

https://welib.org/md5/ea3ac3cc9de5661d30a244e907047a1c

Wednesday, June 19, 1996

Progress M-29

1995-053A

Launch mass of Progress 229 was 7122 kg. It was undocked from the Kvant module on Dec 19 and deorbited over the Pacific; mass prior to deorbit was 5694 kg.

Date	Time	Event	Orbit

Progress M-29



1995 Oct 8	1850:40	Launch by Soyuz-U	KB LC1
			194 x 242 x 51.7
	2232	TCM-1
	2350	TCM-2
1995 Oct 10	2032:40	Docked with Kvant-1 +X
1995 Dec 19	0915:05	Undocked	92.47 391 x 400 x 51.6
	1526:00	Deorbited over Pacific, 217s
	1615	Reentered over 48 34 S 174 18 E

Tuesday, June 18, 1996

Aviation Week: November 27,1995

https://welib.org/md5/81e2f2f396df022101a8c303a77c9c4b

Monday, June 17, 1996

Corona 87

1964-067A

KH-4A Mission 1012 was launched on 1964 Oct 17 into a 75 degree inclination orbit. Mass was 1667 kg. The first SRV was recovered in mid-air over the Pacific on Oct 20. The second part of the mission, 1012-2, was cut short when attitude control became erratic, but bad weather on Oct 23 prevented a second mid-air recovery, and SRV-2 landed in the Pacific ocean, being successfully retrieved later albeit with minimal film content. Targets included Cuba and Algeria.

Date	Time	Event	Orbit

KH-4A Mission 1012



1964 Oct 17	2202:23	Launch by Thor Agena D	V PALC1-1
	2203:28	Castor sep (T+1:05)
	2204:52	Thor MECO (T+2:29)
	2205:00	Thor VECO (T+2:37)
	2205:08	Thor sep (T+2:45)
	2205:13	Agena burn (T+2:50)
	2209:10	Agena MECO (T+6:47)	90.62 185 x 436 x 74.99 (VCR)
1964 Oct 18	1707		90.55 177 x 426 x 75.0
1964 Oct 19	0230		90.59 189 x 416 x 74.99 (RAE)
1964 Oct 20	2356?	SRV-1 ejected rev 49
1964 Oct 21	0030?	SRV-1 recovered in mid-air
		Reactivated
1964 Oct 23	0015?	SRV-2 ejected rev 81
1964 Oct 23	0050?	SRV-2 splashdown
		SRV-2 recovered from sea
1964 Oct 25	0555		90.15 171 x 392 x 75.0
1964 Oct 31	2024		89.07 168 x 289 x 75.0
1964 Oct 31			89.9 176 x 309 x 75.0 (SSR)
1964 Nov 4	0435?	Reenteered

Friday, June 14, 1996

Kosmos 2120

1990-115A

The Kosmos-2120 mission had an extended 23-day duration and flew in three phases with progressively lower apogees.

Date	Time	Event	Orbit

Kosmos-2120



1990 Dec 26	1110:00	Launch by Soyuz	PL
	1114	Blok-I burn
	1118	Blok-I sep
1990 Dec 26			88.54 178 x 225 x 82.6
1990 Dec 27			90.34 236 x 346 x 82.6
1991 Jan 8			90.19 233 x 333 x 82.6
1991 Jan 11			89.79 236 x 291 x 82.6
1991 Jan 15			89.77 235 x 290 x 82.6
1991 Jan 16			89.30 228 x 250 x 82.6
1991 Jan 17			89.25 227 x 248 x 82.6
1991 Jan 19		Landed after 23d
	0641?	Deorbit
	0652?	PO sep
	0700?	Entry	-201 x 245
	0716?	Landed

The Age of Innocence

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/541/541.txt

Monday, June 10, 1996

Cluster 1A

1996-F03

The four Cluster satellites, part of ESA's Cornerstone 1 (CS1) project, were lost in the launch failure of the first Ariane 5.

Cluster F1 was paired with Cluster F2 above the Speltra structure on Ariane 501. The Dornier built satellite had a mass of 1200 kg at launch. 650 kg of this is N2O2/MMH fuel. DDS (Dornier Satellitensysteme) is a unit of Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA). The propulsion system was built by Matra Marconi Space/Bristol (formerly British Aerospace) using a DASA 400N/8 x10N thruster system.

The plan was for the Ariane 5 EPS to leave the four spacecraft in a 280 x 36000 km x 10 deg orbit. Cluster F1 and F2 separate from Speltra and then from each other. Five burns with the 400N engine on each satellite leaves them in a 25000 x 140000 km polar orbit. The four spacecraft are maintained in a tetrahedral cluster with 200 to 18000 km separations. The satellite has four 50-m booms with 100m span, and is 2.9m diameter and 1.3m tall. There are also two 5-m booms with magnetometers. Science goals include study of the bow shock, the polar cusp, and the magnetotail. The mission is commanded from ESOC with a science center at RAL.

The Ariane 5 took off from ELA3 at Kourou, but half a minute into the flight, travelling at an altitude of 3500 m, the on-board computer incorrectly read the vehicle's attitude and ordered the vehicle to turn sharply, causing structural failure. The vehicle automatically self destructed when the solid boosters and core stage broke apart.

Date	Time	Event	Orbit

Cluster F1/Ariane 501



1996 Jun 4	1233:59	EPC Vulcain ignition (H0)
	1234:06	EAP ignition
	1234:06	Launch by Ariane 5 (501)	CSG ELA3
	1234:36	Altitude 3.5 km
	1234:36	EAP nozzles hard over
	1234:37?	Vulcain nozzle hard over
	1234:37	L0+31.3s: EPS N2O4 tank rupture?
	1234:38.5	L0+32.5s: 90 deg angle of attack
	1234:38	L0+32.8s? EPC structural breakup
	1234:39	Vehicle destroyed

Payload:

ASPOC Active SC Potential Control
CIS Cluster Ion Spectrometry
DWP Digital Wave Processor
EFW Electric Fields and Waves
EDI Electron Drift Instrument
FGM Fluxgate Magnetometer
PEACE Plasma Electron and Current Analyser
RAPID Research with Adaptive Particle Imaging Detectors

Saturday, June 8, 1996

Aviation Week: June 3,1996

https://welib.org/md5/e12c2d9fa93408994deabbe0140365d8

Kosmos 1611

1984-119A

The last Kobal't of 1984 maneuvered extensively and is believed to have monitored events in the Middle East.

Date	Time	Event	Orbit

Kosmos-1611



1984 Nov 21	1030	Launch by Soyuz	KB
	1038	Blok I sep
1984 Nov 21			89.25 174 x 300 x 64.7
1984 Nov 22			89.23 172 x 300 x 64.8
1984 Nov 22			89.75 173 x 351 x 64.8
1984 Dec 1			89.60 167 x 341 x 64.8
			89.06 167 x 288 x 64.8
1984 Dec 4			88.79 162 x 266 x 64.8
1984 Dec 5			89.01 169 x 282 x 64.8
1984 Dec 6			88.94 168 x 276 x 64.8
1984 Dec 7			89.70 178 x 341 x 64.8
1984 Dec 13			89.39 172 x 315 x 64.8
			89.14 166 x 297 x 64.8
1984 Dec 14			89.06 165 x 290 x 64.8
1984 Dec 16			89.39 184 x 304 x 64.8
1984 Dec 19			89.23 181 x 290 x 64.8
1984 Dec 19			89.04 180 x 273 x 64.7
1984 Dec 24			89.50 178 x 320 x 64.8
1984 Dec 25			89.65 189 x 324 x 64.8
1985 Jan 3			89.02 171 x 281 x 64.7
1985 Jan 4			89.54 175 x 327 x 64.7
1985 Jan 5			89.47 174 x 321 x 64.7
1985 Jan 6		Orbit lower to observe Iran/Iraq war
1985 Jan 6			88.94 174 x 269 x 64.7
1985 Jan 8			88.83 172 x 261 x 64.7
1985 Jan 8			89.58 179 x 328 x 64.7
1985 Jan 11			89.47 178 x 317 x 64.7
1985 Jan 12
	1935?	Deorbit
	1950?	Entry
	2004?	Landing

Leasat 2

1984-093C

The Syncom IV F2 satellite, also known as Leasat 2, was the first of a series designed specially for launch from the Shuttle. (The F1 satellite was built first, but launched second). The cylindrical satellite was spun up as it rolled out of the Shuttle payload bay in a maneuver known as the `frisbee' deployment, named after the plastic toy which is spin-stabilized by hand launch. An Orbus solid perigee motor derived from a Minuteman missile stage was used to place the satellite in geostationary transfer orbit, while a liquid apogee engine using twin Marquardt R4D rocket motors circularized the orbit at geostationary altitude.

The satellite was owned by Hughes Communications Services Inc., and leased to USN Space Command. It was initially stationed at 105W from CONUS (Continental United States) communications.

Date	Time	Event	Orbit

Syncom IV F2



1984 Aug 31	1313	Deployed from OV-103
	1320:30	Spinup by thrusters
1984 Aug 31	1358	Orbus PKM fired 59s
		(TLEs suggest 1401)
	1359	PKM burnout
			278.74 309 x 15203 x 27.3
	1839		278.76 312 x 15202 x 27.3
	2041?	PKM ejected
	2300?	LAM-1 (PVA-1)	345.37 294 x 19561 x 27.2
1984 Sep 1	0500		340.43 311 x 19232 x 27.1
1984 Sep 2		LAM-2 (PVA-2)	439.36 316 x 25216 x 27.0
		LAM-3 (PVA-3)	637.93 321 x 36017 x 26.9
			635.81 278 x 35951 x 26.7
1984 Sep 3		LAM-4 (AVA-1)	813.99 9064 x 35935 x 10.6
1984 Sep 4	2030?	LAM-5 (AVA-2)	1397.10 34086 x 35952 x 3.6
1984 Sep 5			1433.58 35691 x 35783 x 3.5
1984 Sep 7			1436.43 35778 x 35807 x 3.5 GEO 105.2W+0.1W
1984 Sep 9			1436.01 35774 x 35795 x 3.5 GEO 105.2W
1984 Sep		Leasat CONUS	GEO 105W
1986 May 19			1436.09 35776 x 35796 x 1.9 GEO 105.4W
1987 Jan 8			1436.09 35781 x 35791 x 1.5 GEO 105.2W
1987 Jan 12		mv out	1448.28 35790 x 36259 x 1.4 GEO 114.3W+3.0W
1987 Mar		Leasat PAC	GEO 177W
1987 Apr 18		mv in	1436.24 35784 x 35794 x 1.1 GEO 176.4W
1987 Sep 7			1435.92 35780 x 35785 x 0.8 GEO 176.2W
1987 Dec 9			1435.93 35778 x 35787 x 0.6 GEO 177.1W
1987 Dec		Move to IOR
1988 Jan 22			1436.06 35782 x 35788 x 0.6 GEO 72.5E
1988 Jun 16			1436.10 35759 x 35813 x 0.5 GEO 73.3E
1989 Jun 4			1436.07 35776 x 35795 x 1.0 GEO 73.0E
1990 May 1			1436.04 35536 x 36034 x 1.8 GEO 72.5E
1990 May 20?		mv out
1990 Aug 29			1435.98 35782 x 35786 x 2.1 GEO 176.7W
1990 Oct 1			1436.11 35782 x 35791 x 2.1 GEO 177.5W
1992 Apr 23			1436.15 35784 x 35791 x 3.5 GEO 177.7W
1994 Jan 11			1435.92 35777 x 35788 x 4.9 GEO 176.9W

Sunday, June 2, 1996

Kosmos 2293

1994-072A

RCS was 26m2; no debris objects were tracked.

Date	Time	Event	Orbit

Kosmos-2293



1994 Nov 2	0104:00	Launch by Tsiklon-2	KB LC90
	0106	Stage 1 sep
	0108	Stage 2 sep	113 x 375 x 65.0
	0151?	AKM burn
1996 Mar 25			92.78 402 x 419 x 65.0
1996 Mar 26		end of ops	92.31 357 x 418 x 65.0
1996 Mar 26			91.15 245 x 417 x 65.0
1996 Mar 26			90.96 227 x 416 x 65.0
1996 May 13		Reentered

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