Saturday, May 18, 1996

The Ambassadors

 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/432/432-0.txt

Soyuz TM-12

 1991-034A


The first British astronaut was Helen Sharman, selected by the commercial Project Juno for the Soviet-British Soyuz TM-12 flight, which used 7K-STM 11F732 No. 62. The Soviet crew were Anatoliy Artsebarsky and Sergey Krikalyov. The Kurs system on Kvant was malfunctioning, so the docking was done under manual control.


Soyuz TM-12, Flight 1 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1991 May 18  1250:28  Launch by Soyuz-U2  KB 
 1252  Blok BVGD 
 1259:18  Blok-I cutoff, 530s 
 1430   88.49 191 x 208 x 51.6 
 1700   88.57 196 x 211 x 51.6 
  Rev 4 TCM 
  Rev 5 TCM 
 1900   90.28 259 x 317 x 51.6 
1991 May 19    90.28 258 x 316 x 51.6 
  Rev 17 TCM 
  Rev 18 TCM 
1991 May 20  0500   90.29 261 x 315 x 51.6 
  Rev 32 TCM 
  Rev 33 TCM 
  Rev 34 loop around Mir 
  Stationkeeping -X 
 1430:47  Docked with Mir -X   
1991 May 21  1845   91.93 365 x 372 x 51.6 


Soyuz TM-12, Flight 2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1991 May 28  1015Undocked from -X 
 1052  Docked at 37KE +X 


Soyuz TM-12, Flight 3 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1991 Oct 9  2200  Hatch closed 
1991 Oct 10  0055:08  Undocked +X 
 0316:14  Deorbit 259s, at range 10 km, alt 416 km 
 0320:33  Cutoff, alt 409 km 
 0344:58  Sep from BA, PAO, alt 140 km 
 0348  Entry 
 0357  OSP (Main Descent Parachute), 10.7 km 
 0412:18  Landed

Sunday, May 12, 1996

Kosmos 1080

 1979-023A


Kosmos-1080 flew a low orbital profile to test a new type of reconnaissance camera.


Kosmos-1080 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1979 Mar 14  1050 Launch by Soyuz-U  Plesetsk 
 1054 Blok-I burn 
 1058  Blok-I sep 
1979 Mar 14    89.01 167 x 282 x 72.8  
1979 Mar 19    88.29 159 x 220 x 72.9 
1979 Mar 20 
88.49 159 x 240 x 72.9 
1979 Mar 21    88.25 154 x 221 x 72.9 
1979 Mar 22   
88.89 158 x 280 x 72.9 
1979 Mar 27    88.39 150 x 239 x 72.9 
1979 Mar 28  
 0519?  Deorbit 
 0529?  PO sep 
 0532? Entry 
 0549?  Landed 

Kosmos 1156

 1980-012A


Kosmos-1156 was satellite 1 of Strela-1M octuplet no. 24.


Kosmos-1156  
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1980 Feb 11  2332  Launch by 11K65M  PL 
 2334 Stage 2 burn 1  
 2339  T+7m Stage 2 MECO-1 
1980 Feb 12  
Stage 2 burn 2 
 0030? T+58m? Stage 2 sep 
1980 Mar 7
 114.64 1400 x 1475 x 74.02  

Desert Gold

 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/502/502.txt

May 13,2026

  https://planet4589.org/space/jsr/back/news.855.txt