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Molniya 345

 1993-049A

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The latest Molniya-3 satellite was launched on 1993 Aug 4. Molniya-3 launches were now reduced to one per year, with launches occurring regularly in August: this saved time in the various assembly,checkout,and launch operations,as well as ensuring that both Molniya-1 and -3 missions received equal priority.

Molniya-3 No. 58
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1993 Aug 4	0052:00	Launch by 8K78M	PL
		BVGD sep
		GO sep
		T+4:46 Blok A sep
		T+4:56 KhO sep
		T+8:46 Blok-I MECO
	0100	T+8:50 Blok-I sep
		T+53:16 BOZ burn
	0145	T+53:56 BOZ sep
		ML burn
		T+56:46 ML MECO
	0148	T+56:54 ML sep
1993 Aug 5			701.89 402 x 39165 x 62.8
1993 Aug 16			717.48 421 x 39918 x 62.8

Soyuz TM-15

 1992-046A

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Anatoli Solov'yov, Sergei Avdeev and Michel Tognini flew Soyuz TM-15 to Mir, and Tognini returned to Earth with the Soyuz TM-14 crew.

Soyuz TM-15, Flight 1
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1992 Jul 27	0608:48	Launch by Soyuz-U2	KB
			190 x 200 x 51.6
	1620		90.18 223 x 343 x 51.61
1992 Jul 28	1900		90.23 228 x 343 x 51.61
1992 Jul 29	0751	Docking with Mir -X
	0922	Hatch open
	2000		92.72 405 x 410 x 51.62

Soyuz TM-15, Flight 2
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1993 Jan 31	2120	Hatch closed
1993 Feb 1	0026	Undocked Mir -X
	0256?	Deorbit
	0300?	DO CO
	0324?	Modules sep
	0328?	Entry
	0349:57	Landed

More Than Words

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Yuri 2B

 1986-016A

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BS 2B (Yuri 2B) was launched in Feb 1986. Box + 2 panels 2.9h 1.3wide 9.0 span. Launch mass was 693 kg. On orbit mass was 330 kg. It was handed over to TSCJ (Telecom Sat Corp of Japan) in Jul 1986 and NHK broadcasting began on 1986 Dec 25. The satellite was retired in 1991.

Yuri 2B
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1986 Feb 12	0755:00	Launch by N-2	TNSC
		T+1:25 Boosters sep
		T+4:44 St 1 sep
		T+4:50 Stage 2 burn
	0800?	T+5:02? Fairing sep
	0806:27	T+11:27 SECO	200? x 200? x 30.0
	0818?	SES-2 10s?
	0818?	SECO-2	109.96 200 x 2248 x 30.0
	0820?	Stage 2 sep
	0820?	Stage 3 burn 43s	637.73 206 x 36121 x 28.4
	0821?	TECO
	0822:30	T+27:30 Stage 3 sep
1986 Feb 12	1400?	Apo 1
	1900?	Peri 1
1986 Feb 13	0030?	Apo 2
	0530?	Peri 2
	1100?	Apo 3
	1600?	Peri 3
	2130?	Apo 4
1986 Feb 14	0300?	Peri 4
	0830?	Apo 5
	1330?	Peri 5
	1900?	Apo 6
1986 Feb 15	0000?	Peri 6
	0530	Apo 7 over 69E
1986 Feb 15	0529:50	Star 27 AKM burn	GEO 70E+6E/d
1986 Feb 15			1410.42 34406 x 36164 x 0.57 (RAE)
1986 Feb 23			1434.40 35640 x 35866 x 0.8 GEO 114.1E+0.4E
1986 Feb 23			GEO 114E+1E/d
1986 Mar 3		On station	GEO 116.7E
1986 Apr 1			1436.11 35714 x 35859 x 0.8 GEO 117.3E+0.01W
1986 May 15			1435.86 35747 x 35815 x 0.7 GEO 108.9E+0.1E
1986 May 27		mv in	1436.15 35774 x 35800 x 0.7 GEO 110E
1986 Jun		Attitude control lost for 1 day
1986 Jul 12		Handed over to TSCJ
1988 Mar 7			1436.09 35771 x 35801 x 0.1 GEO 109.9E
1990 Mar 4			1436.18 35771 x 35805 x 0.1 GEO 109.9E
1991 Oct 23		mv out	1436.18 35682 x 35893 x 1.1 GEO 109.6E+0.03W
1991 Oct 24		orbit raise
1991 Oct 27			1450.40 35987 x 36144 x 1.0 GEO 99.6E+3.5W
1995 Nov 14			1450.31 36000 x 36128 x 4.3 GEO 81.8W+3.5W

Seventeen: October 1995

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Town and Country: September 1995

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Sunset Surf

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Kosmos 378

 1970-097A

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Kosmos-378 was DS-U2-IP (Ionospheric) No. 1, an ionospheric study satellite launched in Nov 1970. The mission was the first of the DS-U2 satellites to use the 11K65M rocket instead of the 11K63, marking the beginning of the phaseout of the original Kosmos rocket.

Kosmos-378
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1970 Nov 17	1820	Launch by 11K65M	PL
	1822	Stage 2 burn
	1830?	Stage 2 cutoff
1970 Nov 20	0000	104.88 234 x 1742 x 74.0 (RAE)
1970 Dec 2		Main program concluded
1971 Aug 16	1200		99.95 227x 1283 x 74.0 (RAE)
1971 Sep 13		End of operations
1972 Aug 17	1507?	Reentered

Payload:

• 1-8 MeV protons, TR

• SBT-9 e and p detector

• Electrostatic analyser 0.07-9 keV (IKI/MGU/Afonin)

• Geiger counter, 40+ keV e(IKI/MGU/Afonin)

• PL-37 Spherical Ion trap (IKI/Ozerov)

• PL-38 Spherical ion trap

• PL-36 Photoelectrons

• PL-39 Ion sensor

Corona 127

 1968-065A

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KH-4B Mission 1104 (CORONA 127) was launched by Thorad Agena D from Vandenberg on 1968 Aug 7, while tension between the USSR and Czechoslovakia over the Prague Spring was coming to a head. The first SRV was recovered around Aug 17 or so and showed no obvious evidence of the coming invasion, while the other SRV was returned to Earth after the Aug 21 invasion of Czechoslovakia. Mission 1104 also tested an SO-180 infrared film, including test exposures of Vandenberg AFB from space.

KH-4B Mission 1104
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1968 Aug 7	2136:55	Launch by LTTAT Agena D	V SLC3W
	2137	Castor sep
	2139	Thor sep
	2140	Agena burn
	2144	Agena MECO
1968 Aug 8	0002		88.66 158 x 257 x 82.1
1968 Aug			88.7 160 x 259 x 82.1 (SATCAT)
1968 Aug 9	1700		88.60 152 x 257 x 82.1 (RAE)
1968 Aug 9	1725		88.56 158 x 258 x 82.1
1968 Aug 10	1405		88.46 151 x 245 x 82.1
	1700?	DMU-1 burn rev 46
	2256		88.43 151 x 242 x 82.1
1968 Aug 11	1343		88.51 151 x 250 x 82.1
1968 Aug 12	0300?	DMU-2 burn rev 69
1968 Aug 12	0428		88.45 152 x 244 x 82.1
1968 Aug 13	2300?	DMU-3 burn rev 99
1968 Aug 14	1532		88.54 152 x 252 x 82.1
1968 Aug 14	2324?	SRV-1 ejected
1968 Aug 15	0004	SRV-1 recovered rev 115
		25 47N 162 28W
1968 Aug 15	0300?	DMU-4 burn rev 117
1968 Aug 15			88.4 149 x 253 x 82.0 (SSR)
1968 Aug 16	1100?	DMU-5 burn rev 139
1968 Aug 17	0300?	DMU-6 burn rev 150
1968 Aug 17	1127		88.63 145 x 268 x 82.1
	1553		88.60 142 x 269 x 82.1
1968 Aug 18	0045		88.54 145 x 258 x 82.1
	1400?	DMU-7 burn rev 174
	1659		88.49 146 x 253 x 82.1
	2125		88.56 146 x 260 x 82.1
1968 Aug 19	1900?	DMU-8 burn rev 194
1968 Aug 20	0000		88.51 137 x 264 x 82.1
	1614		88.49 140 x 259 x 82.1
	2000?	DMU-9 burn rev 211
1968 Aug 22	0600?	DMU-10 burn rev 234
1968 Aug 22	2154?	SRV-2 ejected
1968 Aug 22	2230	SRV-2 recovered rev 244
		18 42N 156 27W
1968 Aug 22	2230?	DMU-11 rev 244
1968 Aug 22	2253		88.51 147 x 254 x 82.1
1968 Aug 22	2300?	H timer off, rev 245
1968 Aug 23	1212		88.67 149 x 268 x 82.1
1968 Aug 25	1124		88.18 138 x 231 x 82.1
1968 Aug 26	1942		87.82 135 x 198 x 82.1
1968 Aug 27	0824?	CORONA/Agena reentered

Meteosat 4

 1989-020B

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The first EUMETSAT Meteostat Operational Programme satellite, MOP 1, was launched on 1989 Mar 6.

Meteosat 4
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1989 Mar 6	2329	Launch by Ariane 44LP	CSG
	2349	JCSAT sep
	2353	MOP sep	230 x 35970 x 7.0 (SPELDA)
1989 Mar 7	0021:00	Spinup from 5 to 78 rpm, 1312s
	0114	Spinup to 90 rpm
	0222	Slew 1
	0300	Slew 2
	0440	Slew 3
	1230	Slew 4
1989 Mar 8	0145	Slew 5
1989 Mar 8	1322:00	MAGE 1 burn
	1335:00	MAGE 1 ejected
	1430:00	Spin axis erection 1.4 kg
1989 Mar 8			1424.01 35213 x 35885 x 1.2 GEO 33.6W+3.0E
1989 Mar 11	0025:00	Acq-1 6.1m/s 1.0 kg
1989 Mar 25			1432.33 35538 x 35887 x 1.2 GEO 12.0W+0.9E
1989 Apr 3	2126:49	Acq-2 4.5m/s 0.8 kg
1989 Apr 5	0912:47	Acq-3 -1.9m/s 0.3 kg
1989 Apr 9			1435.96 35779 x 35788 x 1.2 GEO 3.6W+0.03E
1989 Apr 10	1300	Spin axis correction
	1330	Spinup
1989 Apr 19	1425	First image
1989 May 2			1435.91 35776 x 35789 x 1.1 GEO 2.7W
1989 May		Slow drift to 1W
1989 Jun 19		Transfer to Eumetsat
1989 Jul 31			1436.13 35783 x 35791 x 0.9 GEO 0.9W
1989 Oct		Problems with imager
1990 Jan 24		Placed on standby, move to 10.5W
1990 Mar 21			1436.20 35765 x 35811 x 0.6 GEO 11.2W
1990 Apr 19		Back at 1W
1990 May 2			1436.08 35783 x 35789 x 0.6 GEO 0.3W
1991 Feb 24			1436.16 35783 x 35792 x 0.3 GEO 0.3E
1991 Aug 12			1435.94 35779 x 35788 x 0.2 GEO 0.3E+0.03E
1992 Oct 3			1435.99 35778 x 35790 x 0.3 GEO 1.0E
1993 Dec 15			1436.22 35784 x 35793 x 0.1 GEO 0.2W
1994 Feb 24			1436.04 35774 x 35796 x 0.2 GEO 0.8W
1994 Mar 1?		mv out
1994 Mar 3			1436.91 35781 x 35824 x 0.2 GEO 2.5+0.2W
1994 Mar 28		mv in
1994 Mar 31			1436.09 35781 x 35791 x 0.3 GEO 8.7W
1994 Dec 22			1436.09 35779 x 35793 x 0.8 GEO 8.2W
1995 May 9			1436.07 35779 x 35793 x 1.2 GEO 7.9W
1995 May 15		mv out
1995 Jul 7		mv in	1436.10 35777 x 35796 x 1.2 GEO 9.3E
1995 Oct 5			1435.99 35769 x 35799 x 1.4 GEO 10.4E
1995 Nov 6			1436.15 35772 x 35802 x 1.5 GEO 9.8E

Kosmos 1237

 1981-001A

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Two-tone telemetry; Medium res satellite

Kosmos-1237
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1981 Jan 6	1215	Launch by Soyuz-U	Plesetsk
	1219	Blok-I burn
	1223	Blok-I sep
1981 Jan 6			90.35 195x386x72.9
1981 Jan 7			92.30 357x417x72.9
1981 Jan 14			92.29 358x417x72.9
1981 Jan 20	0619?	Deorbit
	0621?	PO sep
	0641?	Entry
	0653?	Landed

Chinasat 3

 1990-011A

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STTW-4 (Chinasat 3, Zhongxing 3?) was launched in Feb 1990 and was the third and last DFH-2A satellite. It was stationed at the 98E Chinasat 3 position.

Chinasat 3
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1990 Feb 4	1227:03	Launch by CZ-3	XSC
		T+2:06 St 1 MECO
		T+2:07 St 2 burn
		T+4:15 St 2 MECO
		T+4:19 Fairing
		T+4:22 St 2 VECO
		T+4:23 Stage 3 burn
	1239?	T+11:08 MECO-1
	1243?	Stage 3 MES-2
	1248?	Stage 3 MECO
		Spinup payload
	1249?	Stage 3 sep
1990 Feb 5		(Stage 3 orbit, Feb 13)	626.85 245 x 35523 x 30.7
1990 Feb 5			720.85 4732 x 35773 x 12.3
1990 Feb 6	0230?	AKM
1990 Feb 6			1470.64 35721 x 37199 x 0.5 GEO 146.0E+8.5W
1990 Feb 12		mv in	1436.40 35782 x 35802 x 0.1 GEO 97.9E+0.1W
1990 Feb 18			1436.01 35779 x 35790 x 0.1 GEO 97.9E
1990 Feb 27			1436.06 35784 x 35787 x 0.1 GEO 98.1E
1991 Jul 7			1436.06 35778 x 35792 x 0.1 GEO 98.2E
1992 Mar 12			1436.14 35783 x 35791 x 0.1 GEO 98.1E
1993 Jun 13			1436.18 35777 x 35798 x 0.0 GEO 98.0E
1994 Apr 22			1436.00 35782 x 35787 x 0.1 GEO 97.9E