Tuesday, December 1, 1998

Kosmos 862

 1976-105A


Kosmos-862 was the first LKI test satellite. It disintegrated in Mar 1977. Two of the debris objects were quite large, and one of them (9889) broke up into more pieces just prior to reentry in 2014. The main spacecraft remains in orbit.


Kosmos-862 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1976 Oct 22  0912 Launch by 8K78M  Plesetsk 
  BVGD sep 
  GO sep 
  T+4:46 Blok A sep 
  T+4:56 KhO sep 
  T+8:46 Blok-I MECO 
 0920 T+8:50 Blok-I sep 
  T+1:00? BOZ burn 
 1012?  T+1:00? BOZ sep 
  2BL burn 
  2BL MECO 
 1015?  T+1:03 2BL sep  
1976 Oct 22    712.3 571x39516x62.8 
1976 Nov  718.1 598x39775x62.8 
1977 Mar 15   end of tx 

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