Saturday, December 21, 1996

Kosmos 49

 1964-069A


DS-MG No. 2 was the second magnetic field survey satellite,named Kosmos-49 on reaching orbit. It operated for 10 days until the telemetry system failed. A US source claimed it also studied the IR and UV flux from the Earth but I haven’t found this confirmed from Soviet sources. Kosmos-45 did carry such experiments so this US source may have confused or conflated the two satellites.


Kosmos-49 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1964 Oct 24  0517 Launch by 63S1  GTsP4 
 0519 Stage 2 
 0524 Stage 2 sep  91.78 264 x 466 x 49.0 
1964 Nov 3   End of operations 
1965 Aug 21   Reentered 

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