Saturday, October 18, 1997

Kosmos 541

  1972-105A


The third Zenit-4MT/Orion was launched in Dec 1972. The payload was announced as Kosmos-541; it was the first of the series to be placed in a polar 81 degree orbit. It carried the usual micrometeorite detector package. The satellite was recovered on Jan 8 and the Kettering group detected a TL recovery beacon.


Kosmos-541 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1972 Dec 27  1030:04  Launch by 11A511M  PL  
 1034  Blok-I burn  
 1038  Blok-I sep  
 2221   90.16 219 x 345 x 81.3 
1972 Dec 28  1700   90.21 221 x 346 x 81.31 (RAE) 
1972 Dec 29  1627   90.15 216 x 346 x 81.3 
1973 Dec 30  1500   90.14 216 x 346 x 81.3 
1973 Jan 1  0435   90.13 222 x 339 x 81.3 
1973 Jan 60400 90.09 217 x 339 x 81.3 
1973 Jan 8   Capsule sep 
1973 Jan 8  0617?  Retrofire 
 0627?  PO sep 
 0634?  Entry 
 0649?  Landed after 11.9d 

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