Sunday, September 28, 1997

Kosmos 884

  1976-123A


N. Johnson reports that Kosmos-884 was destroyed on Dec 29 after recovery failed, according to Russian sources. The absence of the usual signs of such a failure makes me wonder if the claim could be an error for another satellite.


Kosmos-884 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1976 Dec 17  0930 Launch by Soyuz-U  Baikonur 
 0934 Blok-I burn 
 0938 Blok-I sep 
1976 Dec 17    89.62 167 x 344 x 65.1 
1976 Dec 18   
89.33 165 x 318 x 65.0 
1976 Dec 23    89.23 164 x 307 x 65.0 
1976 Dec 24   
89.68 169 x 347 x 65.0 
1976 Dec 25    89.66 169 x 336 x 65.0 
1976 Dec 26   Change orbit 89.83 170 x 361 x 65.0 
1976 Dec 27   Change orbit 89.39 169 x 319 x 65.0 
1976 Dec 28   KDU ejected 
1976 Dec 29  0601? Deorbit 
 0611? PO sep? 
 0615? Entry? 
 0631? Landed 

No comments:

Post a Comment

These Are Not My Beautiful Stories

  Summary: The chapters within are outlines for both future stories I’ve got planned (in the case that I never get around to writing them) a...