Thursday, December 3, 1998

Kosmos 814

  1976-034A


Kosmos-814 attempted a first-orbit intercept. The initial orbit put its closest approach 200 km from Kosmos-803. Russian sources claim the intercept was successful; I calculate that a burn at 1735 UTC, over the eastern USSR, could have adjusted the trajectory to 184 x 589 km x 65.77 deg and achieved a 1 km pass at 1806 UTC. Johnson speculated that the intercept orbit was a 556 x 615 km low-speed pass.


Kosmos-814 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1976 Apr 14  1716 Launch by 11K69  KB 
 1718  Stage 2 burn 
 1721  Stage 2 MECO 

1730 90.5 118x480x65.1 
 1735? Targeting burn  184? x 589? x 65.8 
 1806  Possible intercept 
 1808?  200 km from K-803? 
 1854?  Deorbit 

1925? Reentered 

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