Soyuz 15

 1974-067A

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11F615A9 No. 63 (Soyuz-15) was launched on 1974 Aug 26, the second flight to Almaz OPS 2. The spacecraft made rendezvous with the space station the next day, but the docking was aborted. At 350 m range, the Igla system decided the range was actually 20 km and increased approach speed to 20 m/s - Soyuz rushed past the station, missing it by only 40 m. The automatic system repeated this close flyby twice more. Ground control shut down the system and the mission was returned early.

Soyuz-15
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1974 Aug 26	1958:05	Launch by Soyuz	KB
	2000	Blok BVGD sep
	2004	Blok A sep
	2006	Blok I MECO
	2006	Blok-I sep
			195 x 221 x 51.6
		Orbit raise	254 x 275 x 51.6
1974 Aug 27	1900?	Rendezvous with Salyut-3
		Flyby 1 at 40 m
		Flyby 2 at circa 40 m
		Flyby 3 at circa 40m
		Failed to dock
1974 Aug 28	1924	Retrofire	258 x 278x 51.6
	1927?	DO CO
	1940?	Modules sep
	1946?	Entry	-103? x 258 x 51.6
	2010:16	Landed 48 km SW of Tselinograd

STS-60 (Discovery)

 1994-006A

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STS-60 was launched on 1994 Feb 3 at 1210 on a research mission to fly the Wake Shield Facility and carry out research in the Spacehab module on materials and bioprocessing. The original plan was to release the WSF into a 350 x 354 km orbit at 1400 on Feb 5, and rendezvous with it on Feb 7, retrieving it at 2010. However, problems with WSF attitude control aborted the deploy on two occasions, and it was used instead attached to the RMS arm.

The CAPL experiment showed that start-up of the capillary pumped loop thermal control system was much harder in orbit than on the ground, prompting a redesign of the system.

Six ODERACS calibration spheres and the German BREMSAT microsat were ejected from the GAS bridge during the mission.

STS-60 events
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1994 Jan 4		Tow to VAB
1994 Jan 10		Rollout	LC39A
1994 Feb 3	1210:00	Launch from LC39
	1212:05	SRB sep
	1218:33	MECO	88.74 66 x 357 x 57.0 (OMS dV)
	1218:52	ET sep
	1252:16	OMS-2 2:44 82m/s
	1255:00	OMS 2 CO	91.60 347 x 358 x 57.0
	1341	PLBD open
1994 Feb 4	0000		91.59 347 x 358 x 57.0
		RMS tests
1994 Feb 5	0944	Supply water dump
	1113:57	RMS grapple WSF
	1223:41	WSF unberth
		WSF deploy cancelled
	2058	RMS reberth WSF
	2103	Ungrapple
1994 Feb 6	1114	RMS grapple WSF
	1153	RMS unberth WSF
1994 Feb 7	1721	RMS reberth WSF	91.58 345 x 358 x 57.0
	1724	Ungrapple
	1724	Grapple
	2051	Unberth
1994 Feb 8	1159	Berth
	1434	Unberth
1994 Feb 9	0657		91.58 345 x 358 x 57.0
	1218	Berth
	1245	Ungrapple WSF
	1453:24	ODERACS deploy sequence initiated
	1454:23	ODERACS-A (10cm) deploy
	1454:25	ODERACS B (10cm) deploy
	1454:28	ODERACS C (5 cm) deploy
	1454:30	ODERACS D (5 cm) deploy
	1454:35	ODERACS E (15cm) deploy
	1454:37	ODERACS F (15cm) deploy
	1923:19	BREMSAT deploy
1994 Feb 10	0700		91.62 349 x 358 x 57.0
1994 Feb 11	1409	PLBD closed	91.63 349 x 358 x 57.0
	1814:50	OMS DO (3:54) 124m/s
	1818:45	OMS DO CO	87.39 -67 x 358 x 57.0
	1847:51	Entry interface
	1919:22	Landed KSC RW15
	1919:35	Chute
	1919:43	NGTD
	1919:57	Chute sep
	1920:14	Wheels stop
	2245	Tow to OPF/3

Governor's race : a TV reporter's chronicle of the 1993 Florio/Whitman campaign

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Morelos 1

 1985-048B

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The Morelos 1 satellite was owned by Mexico's Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT). The satellite was deployed with its PAM-D upper stage from Space Shuttle Discovery in Jun 1985.

Morelos 1
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1985 Jun 17	1938	Deploy
	2023	PAM-D burn
	2024	PAM-D cutoff
	2026	PAM-D sep
1985 Jun 17			635.90 375 x 35859 x 25.4
1985 Jun 18			645.76 818 x 35921 x 23.3
1985 Jun 18	2316	Star 30BP burn
			1315.71 30860 x 35932 x 0.0 GEO 172.7W+33.0E
1985 Jun 20		lower orbit	1432.79 35499 x 35943 x 0.2 GEO 112.9W+0.8E
1985 Jun 21			1436.38 35782 x 35801 x 0.1 GEO 113.3W+0.08W
1985 Jun 29			1436.10 35779 x 35793 x 0.1 GEO 113.5W+0.0W
1986 Oct 1			1436.07 35776 x 35796 x 0.0 GEO 113.4W+0.0W
1989 Jan 30			1436.08 35776 x 35796 x 0.0 GEO 113.6W
1990 May 13			1436.07 35769 x 35802 x 0.0 GEO 113.4W
1992 Jun 13			1436.09 35776 x 35796 x 0.0 GEO 113.5W
1994 Feb 27			1436.06 35779 x 35792 x 0.1 GEO 113.4W

Sunset Fling

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Crystal 6

 1984-122A

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CRYSTAL 6 was launched into a late afternoon 0941 LTDN west-plane sun-synchronous orbit. The higher apogee of this mission reflected the KENNEN system's takeover of the HEXAGON's wide area search mission in addition to the core KH-11 close-look capability. D. Day notes that the search mission is performed at apogee and in a sun-synchronous orbit the orbital plane would be 180 degrees from a high resolution mission looking at the same target at perigee.

CRYSTAL 6
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1984 Dec 4	1803	Launch by Titan 34D	V SLC4E
	1804	Core engines on (T+1:47)
	1804	SRM jettison (T+1:56) at 39 km
	1807?	T+4min? Stage 1 sep
	1807?	Stage 2 ignition (T+4:33?)
	1807?	Fairing off (T+4:46?)
	1810?	Stage 2 cutoff (T+7:58?)
	1811?	Stage 2 sep (T+8:08?)
1984 Dec 4			93.5 300x650x97.1
1989 May 6			96.55 302x884x97.8
1989 Aug 1			96.08 298x843x97.8
1989 Aug 14			96.53 352x832x97.9
1989 Aug 18			96.51 349x834x97.8
1989 Aug 22			96.50 345x837x97.8
1990 Mar 31			95.78 376x736x97.63 (Molczan CSS1731)
1990 Apr 2			95.81 340x775x97.8
1990 Jun 3			95.60 336x758x97.7 (CSS2333)
1990 Oct 9			336x732x97.8
1990 Nov 12			559x732 from 336x732
1991 May 25			97.51 552x726x97.8 (CSS)
1991 Jul 9			97.23 541x711x97.8 (CSS)
1992 Oct 7			97.39 561 x 705 x 97.8
1993 Jul 14			97.36 542 x 722 x 97.8
1994 Oct 13			97.34 544 x 718 x 97.9
1996 Feb 22		Reentered

Kosmos 1875

 1987-074A

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Kosmos-1875 was the first satellite of the fourth Strela-3 launch.

Kosmos-1875
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1987 Sep 7	2350:09	Launch by Tsiklon-3	PL
		T+2:00 St 1 sep
		T+3:33 GO sep
		T+4:38 St 2 sep
		T+6:00 S5M burn 1 96s
	2357	T+7:36 S5M MECO-1	-200? x 1300 x 82.6
1987 Sep 8	0032?	T+41:50 S5M burn 2 25s
		T+42:10 S5M low thrust
		T+42:43 S5M sep first KA
	0034?	T+44:09 S5M sep last KA
1987 Sep 25			113.72 1372x1423x82.5

Aviation Week: March 10,1997

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Clueless: a novel

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Nadezhda 2

 1990-017A

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The second named Nadezhda was launched in Feb 1990.

Nadezhda (F2)
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1990 Feb 27	2059:42	Launch by Kosmos-3M	PL
		T+2:10 St 1 MECO
		T+2:12 St 1 sep
		T+2:12 St 2 burn 59km
		T+2:27 Fairing 76km
	2108?	T+8:03 St 2 MECO 150 km	150 x 1003? x 83
		T+1:02:19 St 2 MES2
		T+1:02:30 St 2 MECO2
	2203?	T+1:02:50 St 2 sep
1996 Feb		KOSPAS-5 decommissioned

Kosmos 455

 1971-097A

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DS-P1-Yu No. 54 was launched in Nov 1971 from Plesetsk. It was another subgroup 1 DS-P1-Yu mission.

Kosmos-455
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1971 Nov 17	1110	Launch by 11K63	PL
	1112	Stage 2 burn
	1117?	Stage 2 sep
1971 Nov 19	2130		92.19 272 x 491 x 71.0 (RAE)
1972 Feb 1			91.46 259 x 433 x 71.0 (RAE)
1972 Apr 5		End of operations
1972 Apr 9	0028?	Reentered

Kosmos 247

  1968-088A

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Zenit-2 No. 65 was launched on 1968 Oct 11. Landing was 50 km N of Tselinograd at 51 14 N 71 17 E.

Kosmos-247
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1968 Oct 11	1205	Launch by 11A57	NIIP-53 LC41/1
	1210	Blok-I burn
	1214	Blok-I sep
			89.9 205 x 362 x 65.4 (TASS)
	1750		89.97 200 x 344 x 65.4
1968 Oct 12	0930?		89.94 199 x 345 x 65.39 (RAE)
1968 Oct 16	0845		89.87 198 x 337 x 65.4
1968 Oct 19	0537?	Deorbit
	0543?	PO sep
	0602	Landed

Kosmos 1552

 1984-045A

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This was the second Terilen flight. The operational orbit was reached after 3 days in the low perigee insertion orbit.

Kosmos-1552
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1984 May 14	1400	Launch by Soyuz	Baikonur
	1409	Blok I sep
1984 May 14			89.5 184x315x64.94
1984 May 15			197x316x64.9
1984 May 16			183x322x64.9
1984 May 17	1255?	Raise peri
1984 May 17			225x311x64.9
1984 May 25			224x316x64.9
1984 Oct 18			236x327x64.9
1984 Oct 21			234x322x64.9
1984 Nov 1			230x311x64.9
1984 Nov 2			229x307x64.9
1984 Nov 3
	0904?	Deorbit (fiducial)
	0928?	Entry

Kosmos 382

  1970-103A

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The second L-1E test flight was 7K-L1E No. 2, launched in Dec 1970 as Kosmos-382. It may have carried a supplementary ion engine experiment since the orbital eccentricity was observed to change slowly up to Feb 1971.

Several objects were cataloged in orbit with Kosmos-382. Objects E, F and G were ejected into the 160 minute orbit prior to burn 3. They were tracked later in high apogee orbits which continued to become more eccentric, and were presumably being affected by radiation pressure.

Objects B and C are believed to be the SOZ motors; they were ejected into the 160 minute orbit around the time of burn 3.

Object D was released after burn 3 into the final orbit, but was strongly affected by radiation pressure and decay and has a low RCS. It may be an insulation panel of some kind.

Three in-orbit burns had 982, 285 and 1311 m/s. There were seven burns in total.

Kosmos-382
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1970 Dec 2	1700:00	Launch by Proton-K	KB
	1702	Stage 2
	1705	Stage 2 cutoff
	1705	Stage 3 burn
	1709	Stage 3 cutoff	-1350? x 200 x 51.6
	1715?	Blok-D burn 1
	1717?	Blok-D MECO-1
			190 x 300 km
		Burn 1 (simulated LOI-1)
	1723?	Stage 3 reentry
	1752	Blok-D MES-2
	1755	Blok-D MECO-2	303 x 5038 x 51.6
1970 Dec 3	1100		142.77 303 x 5038 x 51.57 (TLE)
	1148	Burn 3 tweak 3m/s
1970 Dec 4	1148	Burn 4 tweak 2m/s
1970 Dec 4	1300		142.88 303 x 5046 x 51.53 (TLE)
1970 Dec 4			142.98 318 x 5040 x 51.55 (TLE)
	1636	Burn 5 orbit tweak 19m/s
1970 Dec 5			144.11 408 x 5045 x 51.53 (TLE)
1970 Dec 6	1856?	Orbit change over 71E 50N?	158.99 1616 x 5071 x 51.55
		Burn 6 (simulated LOI-2)
		103E,F,G sep to 160 min orbit, decaying
1970 Dec 7	1554?	MES-7
1970 Dec 7	1555	Burn 7 over 82E 50N
		Burn 7 (simulated DOI)
	1554?	SOZ jettison (B,C)	1615 x 5082 x 51.6
	1557?	Burn 7 cutoff	171.06 2577 x 5082 x 55.87
		103D sep to 172 min orbit, decaying
1970 Dec 15	1955		171.04 2581 x 5077 x 55.87
1970 Dec 29	1144		171.03 2585 x 5012 x 55.87
1971 Feb 10		End of ion engine test?
1992 Jul 22			171.00 2389 x 5265 x 55.85
1998 Apr 30			171.00 2376 x 5278 x 55.88

Pioneer 9

  1968-100A

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Pioneer D was launched on 1968 Nov 8 at 0946:29 by Delta E1 from Cape Kennedy. The Delta stage separated at 1006:32 and the FW4D separated at 1007:18, delivering Pioneer IX to solar orbit. The last transmissions from Pioneer IX were received on 1983 May 18, and in 1987 attempts to revive it were discontinued.

Pioneer 9
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1968 Nov 8	0946:29	Launch by Delta E1	CK
		T+0:39 SRM out
		T+1:10 SRM sep
	0949:00	T+2:31 MECO 103 km	-5357 x 255
	0949:04	T+2:35 SES 6:20
	0949:04	St 1 sep
	0949:20	T+2:51 Fairing
	0955:28	T+8:59 SECO alt 375 km range 2052 km circa 21N 63W?	98.1 374 x 972 x 32.9
	1006:33	T+20:04 St 2 sep
	1006:47	T+20:18 FW4D burn
	1007:18	T+20:49 TECO
	1007:22	11.0356 km/s at 2.22 deg, Az 124.53 alt 466.3 km
		At 23.26W 3.36S
	1007:33	T+21:04 TTS sep
	1008:18?	St 3 sep	456 x -163279 x 34.67
1983 May 18		end of tx