Kosmos 573

  1973-041A

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Following the failures of Almaz OPS 1 and DOS 3 in Apr-May 1973, a 7K-T ferry craft, 11F615A8 No. 36, was launched on a two day test mission. This version of the 7K-T would become the standard, with no solar panels and space for a crew of two in spacesuits. Soyuz 7K-T No. 36 was given the code name Kosmos-573.

Kosmos-573
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1973 Jun 15	0600:00	Launch by 11A511	KB
	0602	Blok BVGD sep
	0604	Blok A sep
	0605?	Blok-I burn
	0608	Blok I MECO
	0609	Blok-I sep
	0615		89.95 204 x 341 x 51.8 (TLE)
	0700		90.49 196 x 401 x 51.6 (TLE)
	0900		89.53 191 x 312 x 51.5 (TLE)
1973 Jun 16	0700		89.51 192 x 309 x 51.5
1973 Jun 16	1200		89.27 207 x 302 x 51.6
1973 Jun 17	0410?	BO sep?
	0500		89.15 192 x 273 x 51.6
	0520?	Retrofire over 5E
	0523?	DO CO
	0535?	Modules sep
	0540?	Entry
	0604	Landed after 2.0d

Stable Manners

 https://welib.org/md5/d8293bb0a871ca44d0c412eb11e97575

Corona 54

  1962-058

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The STARAD mission (satellite 1962 BetaKappa or Agena 1401) was launched in Oct 1962 into elliptical orbit with a battery of radiation detectors to study the artificial radiation belt created by the STARFISH nuclear explosion in July of that year. A single Agena burn was used. STARAD, or Air Force Special Radiation Measuring Satellite was part of the CORONA program, CORONA flight 54, although it did not carry a KH camera system or a recoverable capsule. Mass of the STARAD satellite was 915 kg.

Starad
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1962 Oct 26	1614:39	Launch by Thor Agena D	V Pad 2
	1616	Thor MECO (T+2:27)
	1616	Thor VECO (T+2:36)
	1616	Thor sep (T+2:51)
	1617:57	Agena burn (T+3:18)
	1622:00	Agena cutoff (T+7:21)	148.0 204 x 5593 x 71.33 (VCR)
1962 Oct 29	1225		147.78 191 x 5570 x 71.4
1962 Nov 10	1200		147.43 194 x 5537 x 71.39 (RAE)
1962 Dec 6	1118		146.76 202 x 5474 x 71.4
1962 Dec 13		End of ops?
1963 Jan		End of tx
1966 Apr 23			119.46 198 x 3115 x 71.38
1966 Oct 18	1700		114.26 197 x 2646 x 71.32 (RAE)
1967 Oct 2			90.07 159 x 399 x 71.21 (RAE)
1967 Oct 5		Reentered

The Idylls of the King

 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/610/610-0.txt

1993 Daily Celebrity Almanac

https://welib.org/md5/72cc9f49ef8ccae871f20a9bdf9f3aef

OSO 1

  1962-006A

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The S-016 payload, also designated OSO A consisted of two sections: the `wheel' and a despun section called the `sail' which carried a solar array and some of the experiments. The wheel section had thrusters on booms to control the spin rate.

Orbiting Solar Observatory 1 was launched at 1606 on 1962 Mar 7. The launch vehicle was a Thor Delta. OSO 1 transmitted until 1963 Aug 3, although useful data stopped in May 1962; OSO 1 reentered on 1981 Oct 8.

OSO 1
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1962 Mar 7	1606:18	Launch by Delta 8	CC LC17A
	1608:49	T+2:31 Thor 301 MECO 68 km 3.43 km/s
		T+2:41 MECO?? 82 km 4.465 km/s
	1608	T+2:46? Delta 2017 SES 1:43 89 km 4.453 km/s
	1609:48	T+3:20 135.8 km 4.857 km/s
	1610:47?	T+4:29? Delta SECO	-3220 x 570 x 32.8
		S+0:00 Delta sep
		S+0:15 Altair burn 42s
		S+0:57 Altair burnout
		S+1:40 OSO deploy arms
	1615?	S+2:45 Altair sep
		S+3:20 Fire despin jets
		S+13:20 Sun acquistion complete
1962 Mar 27			562 x 586 x 32.8
1962 May 22		Spin system problem
1962 Jun 23		Resume data
1962 Jul 7		Data stops
1962 Oct 14		Resume data
1963 Aug 3		End of tx
1981 Oct 8		Reentered

Payload:

• Solar EUV/XR spectrometer 10-400A, GSFC (Sail)

• Alternate Pointed Instrument (Sail)

  • Solar gamma ray monitor, 511 keV, GSFC

  • Solar XR scintillator 20-100 keV, GSFC

  • Dust particle experiment, PMT/microphone, GSFC

  • Photoelectric sensor stability, BBRC

• Ion chamber 1.5-120 keV

• Solar flux monitor 3800-4800A, GSFC, wheel

Kosmos 1224

 1980-096A

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Two-tone telemetry; Medium res satellite

Kosmos-1224
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1980 Dec 1	1215	Launch by Soyuz-U	Plesetsk
	1219	Blok-I burn
	1223	Blok-I sep
1980 Dec 1			90.30 199x378x72.9
1980 Dec 2			92.25 351x408x72.9
1980 Dec 5			92.29 357x417x72.9
1980 Dec 12			92.29 358x416x72.9
1980 Dec 15
	0608?	Deorbit
	0618?	PO sep
	0637?	Entry
	0652?	Landed

Too Many Boys!

 https://welib.org/md5/d602515135b3a030c99c93b6343d4513

Aviation Week: May 27,1996

 https://welib.org/md5/856f9619eaf7ae5dbaf147a4a493e627

Progress M-21

 1994-005A

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Progress M No. 221 (Progress M-21) was launched in Jan 1994. Mass was 7130 kg.

Progress M-21
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1994 Jan 28	0212:10	Launch by Soyuz-U	KB
	0220:58	Blok I sep
			193 x 236 x 51.62 (AVM)
1994 Jan 30	0356:13	Docked with Mir Kvant
1994 Mar 23	0120:29	Undocked from Mir
1994 Mar 23	0423	Deorbit
	0513	Reentry over S Pacific

Behind Closed Doors

 https://welib.org/md5/2bc3f25237598535ebd4d5abaa4ccb81

Hollywood People

https://welib.org/md5/25e20144bd4a7df43e67bf6766745ef6

Kosmos 2133

 1991-010A

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The first US-KMO, Kosmos-2133, was launched in Feb 1991. After initial operations at 80E, it moved in several stages to the Atlantic, stopping briefly at 36E in 1991 Nov and 12E in 1992 Jan, before arriving at 24W.

Kosmos-2133
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1991 Feb 14	0831	Launch by Proton
	0840	Stage 3 sep
	0940?	DM burn 1
	1450?	DM burn 2
	1510?	DM sep
			1443.12 35874 x 35973 x 2.4 GEO 90.9E+1.7W
1991 Feb 21			1436.33 35733 x 35849 x 2.3 GEO 80.5E+0.06W
1991 Feb 24			1436.08 35760 x 35812 x 2.3 GEO 80.5E
1991 Sep 23			1436.15 35754 x 35821 x 1.8 GEO 80.6E
1991 Oct 17			1436.21 35755 x 35821 x 1.8 GEO 80.0E
1991 Oct 20		mv out
1991 Nov 18		mv in	1436.15 35750 x 35825 x 1.7 GEO 35.3E
1991 Dec 14			1435.91 35744 x 35821 x 1.6 GEO 35.9E
1991 Dec 31		mv out
1992 Jan 17		mv in	1436.00 35731 x 35838 x 1.6 GEO 12.1E
1992 Feb 5			1435.96 35735 x 35832 x 1.5 GEO 12.6E
1992 Feb 6		mv out
1992 Mar 5		mv in	1436.12 35776 x 35797 x 1.5 GEO 23.3W
1992 Apr 24			1436.21 35786 x 35791 x 1.4 GEO 24.1W
1992 Oct 5			1436.13 35773 x 35800 x 1.0 GEO 23.7W
1993 Jun 20			1436.19 35774 x 35802 x 0.6 GEO 24.4W
1993 Jun 30		mv out
1993 Jul 16			1430.11 35542 x 35795 x 0.5 GEO 9E+1.5E
1993 Sep 11		mv in	1436.12 35690 x 35884 x 1.9 GEO 79.6E
1993 Sep 22			1436.15 35778 x 35796 x 0.5 GEO 79.6E
1993 Nov 30			1436.08 35777 x 35794 x 0.5 GEO 80.0E

Spaceflight: March 1996

 https://welib.org/md5/fa87a63efea531339cce6fab1d5270da

Sunset Magic

 https://welib.org/md5/46990289e784a824cd73eb015c0f47b9

The Contrast

 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/554/554.txt

The Kennedy Space Center Story

https://welib.org/md5/0a10289efb22b2c3516601044c6c9974

Kosmos 1442

 1983-012A

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Kosmos-1442
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1983 Feb 25	1245	Launch by Soyuz	Plesetsk
	1253	Blok-I sep
1983 Feb 25			89.64 173x342x67.16
1983 Feb 27			89.87 170x366x67.2 from 89.58 171x337
1983 Mar 1			89.22 168x304x67.2 from 89.81 169x361
1983 Mar 3			89.57 169x337x67.2 from 88.94 165x280
1983 Mar 5			89.56 162x344x67.2 from 89.45 163x332
1983 Mar 10		SpK-1 fid
1983 Mar 11			89.81 165x365x67.2 from 88.75 152x275
1983 Mar 16			89.81 174x356x67.2 from 89.32 159x324
1983 Mar 24		SpK-2 fid
1983 Mar 26			89.74 173x351x67.2 from 89.10 166x294
1983 Mar 31			89.34 175x310x67.2 from 89.23 167x307
1983 Apr 4			89.46 170x326x67.2 from 89.03 170x284
1983 Apr 8			89.76 168x358x67.2 from 89.16 166x300
1983 Apr 11			89.57 165x342x67.2
1983 Apr 12
	2032?	Deorbit
	2046?	Entry
	2058?	Landed

Raduga 22

 1988-095A

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Raduga No. 34 was launched in Oct 1988.

Raduga No. 34
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1988 Oct 20	1543	Launch by Proton-K	KB
	1552	Stage 3 sep	88.39 189 x 201 x 51.6
	1700?	DM burn 1
	2216	DM burn 2
	2220?	DM sep
1988 Oct 21			1473.51 36467 x 36565 x 1.3 GEO 74E+10/d
1988 Oct 25			1454.4 35994 x 36294 x 1.5
1988 Oct 28			1436.72 35764 x 35833 x 1.5 GEO 35E-0.1/d
1988 Nov 4		On station	1436.21 35766 x 35812 x 1.5 GEO 34.3E
1989 Feb 18			1435.92 35760 x 35805 x 1.2 GEO 35.1E
1989 Dec 20			1435.95 35771 x 35796 x 0.4 GEO 34.6E
1990 Sep 13			1435.83 35774 x 35788 x 0.3 GEO 35.5E
1991 Jun 20			1436.09 35784 x 35789 x 1.0 GEO 34.2E
1992 Feb 12			1436.22 35782 x 35795 x 1.6 GEO 34.5E
1992 Feb 15		mv out
1992 Mar		mv in at 11.5E
1992 Mar 6			1436.29 35771 x 35809 x 1.6 GEO 12.2E+0.06W
1992 Mar 30			1436.18 35768 x 35808 x 1.7 GEO 11.3E
1992 Jun 14			1436.32 35759 x 35822 x 1.9 GEO 12.6E
1993 Jan 30			1436.08 35781 x 35791 x 2.4 GEO 11.5E
1994 Mar 5			1436.08 35772 x 35800 x 3.3 GEO 11.1E
1994 Jul 6			1435.99 35769 x 35799 x 3.5 GEO 12.1E
1995 Jul 19			1436.21 35779 x 35798 x 4.3 GEO 11.5E
1996 Jan 12			1435.85 35771 x 35791 x 4.6 GEO 12.8E

DMSP 5

  1971-087A

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Satellite 4527 (F27) was the first Block 5B satellite, carrying an improved scanning radiometer with a WHR high res thermal IR channel added. Like all the DMSP satellites, Block 5Bs were built by RCA for USAF. It was launched by the first Thor Burner 2A rocket.

DMSP 04527
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1971 Oct 14	0751:17	Launch by Thor Burner 2A	V SLC10W
	0753	Thor sep
	0754?	Star 37B burn 42s
	0754?	Star 37B sep	-3000? x 800? x 99
	0805?	Star 26 burn 18s
	0806?	Star 26 sep
			101.7 796 x 877 x 99.0
1972 Mar 27		End of ops

USA-32

 1988-078A

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The first Titan 23G launch placed a test payload in a 790 km orbit.

USA 32
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1988 Sep 5	0925	Launch by Titan 23G	V SLC4W
		T+2:30? Stage 1 sep
		T+2:30? Stage 2 burn
		T+3:45? Fairing
		T+5:25? Stage 2 MECO
	0930	T+5:30? Stage 2 sep	185 x 292 x 85.0 (UN)
	1103?	Orbit raise 140m/s (fiducial time)	185? x 790? x 85.0
	1152?	Orbit raise 190m/s? (fiducial time)	786 x 794 x 85.0
1991 Apr 27			100.67 786 x 794 x 85.0

Kosmos 949

 1977-085A

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Kosmos-949 flew a 30-day mission which validated the Yantar-2K spacecraft’s operational capabilities.

Kosmos-949
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1977 Sep 6	1730	Launch by Soyuz-U	PL
	1738?	Blok-I sep
			89.5 177 x 325 x 62.8
1977 Sep 20			89.6 149 x 364 x 62.8
1977 Oct 6	0305?	Deorbit
	0340?	Landed

Ekran 16

 1987-073A

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Ekran 29 (Ekran (16)) was launched on 1987 Sep 3 by Proton from Baikonur.

Ekran 29
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1987 Sep 3	1926:00	Launch by Proton	KB
	1935	Stage 3 sep	88.88 193 x 197 x 51.62
	2043?	DM burn 1	252 x 35531 x 47.0
1987 Sep 4	0159?	DM burn 2
	0203?	DM sep
1987 Sep 3			1421.96 35431 x 35588 x 0.3 GEO 89.6E+3.6E
1987 Sep 5			1423.87 35459 x 35633 x 0.4 GEO 96.5E+3.0E
1987 Sep 12			1435.82 35768 x 35793 x 0.4 GEO 98.4E+0.06E
1987 Oct 24			1436.06 35766 x 35805 x 0.3 GEO 100.0E
1988 Sep 19			1435.94 35782 x 35784 x 0.5 GEO 99.4E
1989 Aug 5			1436.21 35771 x 35806 x 1.4 GEO 99.1E
1989 Oct 3			1436.10 35777 x 35795 x 1.5 GEO 99.7E

Ekran 9

 1982-093A

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Ekran 24 was launched on 1982 Sep 16 by Proton-K from Baikonur. According to L. Anselmo and C. Pardini (2004), AdvSpRes. 34, 1203, after 1999 the TLEs of Ekran 24 and Sirio 1 were swapped.

Ekran 24
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1982 Sep 16	1831	Launch by Proton-K	KB
	1840	Stage 3 sep
	1948?	DM burn 1
1982 Sep 17	0104?	DM burn 2
	0108?	DM sep
1982 Oct 7			1436.00 35773 x 35796 x 0.3 GEO 98.9E
1983 Feb 18			1436.23 35756 x 35822 x 0.1 GEO 98.5E
1983 Oct 3			1435.87 35767 x 35797 x 0.5 GEO 98.4E+0.05E
1983 Dec 9			1436.30 35782 x 35798 x 0.7 GEO 98.6E+0.06W
1984 Apr 6			1436.87 35777 x 35826 x 1.0 GEO 82.0E+0.2W
1991 Jun 15			1436.04 35692 x 35878 x 7.5 GEO 46.4E+0.01E