Wideband

  1976-047A

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The main payload for the P76-5 Space Test Program satellite was the WIDEBAND ionospheric beacon, operated by the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA) to study radio scintillation in the auroral zone, and characterize perturbations on radio waves by plasmas in the ionosphere. The beacon was monitored by ground stations at Poker Flat, Alaska; Stanford, California; Kwajalein; and Ancon in Peru. The satellite was actually Transit NNS O-15 (Oscar 15) with its navigation data modulators removed.

P76-5
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1976 May 22	0742:16	Launch by Scout B-1	V
		T+1:14 St 1 burnout
		T+1:14 St 2 burn
	0744:09	T+1:53 St 2 burnout
		T+1:56 Heatshield sep
	0744:18	T+2:02 Stage 3 burn
	0744:51	T+2:35 Stage 3 burnout
		T+11:25 Spinup
	0753:42	T+11:26 Stage 3 sep
	0753:47	T+11:31 Stage 4 burn
	0754:21	T+12:05 Stage 4 burnout
	0758?	Stage 4 sep
	0759?	Despin weights sep
			105.7 996 x 1060 x 99.7

Seventeen: October 1999

 https://welib.org/md5/4a235a77c9a4c1fd1b2767ebb6e33ba8

Dumsat

 2000-015A

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Dummy satellite for Soyuz-Fregat test launch ST-08, the Cluster II Mission Validation Flight. The satellite represents the mass center of gravity and stiffness properties of a stack of two Cluster II satellites. Mass is 2382 kg. It was built by Aerospatiale Matra.

The Blok I falls in the Sea of Okhotsk delivering the 7749 kg RBF/Dumsat stack to suborbital flight. Fregat (RBF, Razgonniy blok Fregat) makes two burns to elliptical orbit. The payload spinup and separation commanding is tested, but the payload remains attached to Fregat.

Dumsat
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2000 Mar 20	1828:30	Launch	KB LC31
		T+1:58 Blok BVGD sep
		T+3:06 GO sep
		T+4:47 Blok A sep
		T+5:21 KO interstage sep
		Blok I burn
	1837:15	T+8:45? MECO
	1837:19	T+8:49 Blok I sep	-1200? x 220?
		T+8:54? Fregat SOZ burn 195s 0.53 km/s or 0.47 km/s
		T+9:49 Fregat MES-1 2:47
	1841:06	T+12:36 Fregat MECO 1	202 x 226 x 64.9
	1846	Blok I reentry?
	1946:03	T+1:17:33 Fregat MES-2, 9:06
	1955:09	Fregat MECO-2	242 x 18000 x 64.9

Aviation Week: September 20,1999

 https://welib.org/md5/7dc2009d14c5b5b1d15be4b5fe898323

Powering Apollo: James E. Webb and NASA

 https://welib.org/md5/4148ded41f19cafdc047704685b5df32

NASA historical data book, volume VI: NASA space applications, aeronautics and space research and technology, tracking and data acquisition/support operations, commercial programs, and resources, 1979-1988

https://welib.org/md5/39de52c07f78b6345cd57581643ae9a2

Kosmos 1272

 1981-047A

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Two-tone telemetry; Medium res satellite

Kosmos-1272
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1981 May 21	0910	Launch by Soyuz-U	Baikonur
	0914	Blok-I burn
	0918	Blok-I sep
1981 May 21			90.42 210x381x70.4
1981 May 25			92.35 362x417x70.4 from 90.14 202x362
1981 May 30			92.35 363x416x70.4
1981 Jun 4
	0627?	Deorbit
	0635?	PO sep
	0655?	Entry
	0710?	Landed

Kosmos 2183

 1992-018A

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Kosmos-2183
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1992 Apr 8	1220:00	Launch by Soyuz	Baikonur
	1229	Blok-I sep
1992 Apr 8			88.99 184 x 263 x 64.9
1992 Apr 9	0230?	Orbit raise	89.85 240 x 293 x 64.9
1992 Apr 19			89.49 227 x 270 x 64.9
1992 Apr 20		Orbit raise	89.83 239 x 292 x 64.9
1992 Apr 29			89.49 227 x 270 x 64.9
1992 Apr 29			89.85 240 x 293 x 64.9
1992 May 16			89.32 222 x 258 x 64.9
1992 May 16		Orbit raise	89.86 241 x 293 x 64.9
1992 Jun 7			89.30 222 x 257 x 64.9
1992 Jun 9		Orbit raise	89.60 231 x 278 x 64.9
1992 Jun 19			89.32 221 x 259 x 64.9
1992 Jun 19		orbit raise	89.84 239 x 293 x 64.9
1992 Jul 1			89.58 232 x 275 x 64.9
1992 Jul 2		Orbit raise	89.88 241 x 295 x 64.9
1992 Jul 7			89.25 227 x 247 x 64.9
1992 Jul 10			89.07 218 x 238 x 64.9
1992 Jul 11		Orbit raise	89.79 239 x 288 x 64.9
1992 Jul 26			89.42 228 x 263 x 64.9
1992 Jul 26		Orbit raise	89.82 241 x 289 x 64.9
1992 Aug 14			89.41 227 x 262 x 64.9
1992 Aug 14		Orbit raise	89.84 242 x 290 x 64.9
1992 Sep 2			89.49 231 x 267 x 64.8
1992 Sep 3		Orbit raise	89.84 240 x 291 x 64.8
1992 Sep 17			89.47 228 x 268 x 64.8
1992 Sep 17		Orbit raise	89.84 241 x 291 x 64.8
1992 Oct 2			89.46 228 x 267 x 64.8
1992 Oct 3		Orbit raise	89.85 240 x 292 x 64.8
1992 Oct 17			89.46 227 x 268 x 64.8
1992 Oct 17		Orbit raise	89.85 242 x 291 x 64.8
1992 Nov 1			89.44 227 x 266 x 64.8
1992 Nov 3		Orbit raise	89.86 241 x 293 x 64.8
1992 Nov 17			89.46 227 x 268 x 64.8
1992 Nov 17		Orbit raise	89.84 242 x 291 x 64.8
1992 Nov 28			89.51 229 x 270 x 64.8
1992 Nov 29		Orbit raise	89.84 240 x 292 x 64.8
1992 Dec 12			89.46 226 x 268 x 64.8
1992 Dec 13		Orbit raise	89.84 240 x 293 x 64.8
1992 Dec 26			89.48 227 x 270 x 64.8
1992 Dec 26		Orbit raise	89.85 243 x 290 x 64.8
1993 Jan 15			89.31 223 x 256 x 64.8
1993 Jan 15		Orbit raise	89.82 244 x 285 x 64.8
1993 Jan 30			89.47 229 x 266 x 64.8
1993 Jan 30		Orbit raise	89.76 237 x 287 x 64.8
1993 Feb 16			89.24 217 x 256 x 64.8
1993 Feb 19
	1150?	Deorbit
	1215?	Entry

Progress 14

 1982-070A

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Progress (7K-TG) No. 117 was launched on 1982 Jul 10 and announced as Progress-14. This was the second flight of the Model VLF experiment.

Progress-14
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1982 Jul 10	0957:44	Launch by Soyuz-U	KB
	1006	Blok-I MECO
			88.49 172 x 228 x 51.6
	1500		88.78 186 x 242 x 51.6
1982 Jul 11	0000		89.34 177 x 305 x 51.7
	1200		90.13 208 x 353 x 51.7
	1430		90.86 297 x 336 x 51.7
1982 Jul 12			98.85 297 x 336 x 51.6
	1141	Docked with Salyut-7
1982 Aug 10	2215	Undocked
1982 Aug 11	1257		90.47 291 x 305 x 51.6
1982 Aug 12	0100		90.45 289 x 304 x 51.6
	0329	Deorbited over Pacific

Double Exposure

 https://welib.org/md5/aec9e6ca7686bb0d862f1f5e330eec81

Astro-E

 2000-F01

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Launch by M-V-4 in 2000 from Kagoshima. ASTRO E's objectives were high throughput, high energy resolution X-ray spectroscopy over a wide energy range. It will carry the XRS calorimeter telescope, the XIS CCD telescope, and the HXD hard X-ray detector.

Planned orbit was 250 x 550 km. Actual orbit was originally indicated to be around 80 x 410 km; probably reentered on first perigee somewhere between E Africa and Tibet. It appears the altitude at burnout was around 220 km, not far below the planned 250 km, but the velocity was much too low. More recent discussions suggest that the orbit was even lower, with a negative perigee, and that the payload fell in the Pacific.

ASTRO E
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2000 Feb 10	0130	Launch by M-V-4	Kagoshima
		T+25s anomalous vibration
		T+41s Nozzle heat shields break off
		T+53s Pitch control lost
		T+53s Rocket off trajectory
		T+1:15 St 1 sep
		T+1:15 St 2 burn 97s
		T+2:52s St 2 burnout
		T+3:17s Fairing
	0133	T+3:33 St 2 sep
		T+3:38 St 3 burn 103s
	0135	T+5:21 St 3 burnout
	0150	T+20:12 Last signal detected
	0153	T+23:38 St 3 sep (estimated)
	0158?	Reentry (if 80 x 410) over 140W 0N?

Galaxy 7

 1992-072A

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Hughes Communications Inc.'s Galaxy 7H was an HS-601 hybrid C/Ku band satellite replacing the C-band Galaxy 6 (which in turn replaced Galaxy 1) and the Ku-band SBS 4. It was used for cable TV distribution and private communications networks.

This mission used Perigee Velocity Augmentation (PVA), a procedure which optimizes the combined performance of launch vehicle and satellite to increase the on-orbit life of the satellite. The Ariane 42P lifted around 280 kg of additional satellite propellants, to a lower apogee of 27,600 km instead of the usual geostationary transfer apogee of 35,975 km. The Galaxy VII satellite used its apogee motor at the 3rd and 6th perigee to raise the apogee to the altitude normally used for circularization of the orbit, followed by regular apogee burns.

Galaxy VIIH
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1992 Oct 28	0015	Launch by Ariane 42P
	0016	T+01:31 PAP jettison
	0018	T+03:27 L220 sep
	0018	T+03:30 L33 ignition
	0019	T+04:35 Fairing sep
	0020	T+05:30 L33 cutoff, sep
	0020	T+05:43 H-10 ignition
	0033	T+18:11 H-10 cutoff
	0035	T+20:00 H-10 sep, orbit injection
	0037	T+22:46 H-10 sep mv, shutdown
			479.15 216 x 27594 x 7.0
1992 Oct 29	0h (s)	PVA burn 1, 3rd peri
			519.06 198 x 29834 x 7.0
1992 Oct 30	12h(s)	PVA burn 2, 6th peri
1992 Nov 2	(s)	AKM burn 1, 12th apo
1992 Nov 4	(s)	AKM burn 2, 14th apo
1992 Nov 4			1436.00 35694 x 35874 x 0.2 GEO 89.5W+0.02E
1992 Nov 5	(s)	AKM burn 3, 15th apo
1992 Nov 7			1435.32 35684 x 35858 x 0.1 GEO 89.1W+0.2E
1992 Nov 7	(s)	Solar panel deploy
1992 Nov		Due GEO 91W
1992 Nov 29			1436.10 35782 x 35790 x 0.1 GEO 90.9W
1992 Dec 20			1436.14 35777 x 35797 x 0.1 GEO 91.0W
1994 Apr 18			1436.12 35778 x 35796 x 0.1 GEO 91.0W
1996 Jun 2			1436.10 35776 x 35796 x 0.1 GEO 91.0W

Kosmos 385

  1970-108A

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Kosmos-385 was launched in Dec 1970 into a higher orbit than previous Tsiklon missions, with a period of 105 minutes. This would become the standard orbital altitude for the Tsiklon satellites and their successors.

Kosmos-385
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1970 Dec 12	1300:00	Launch by 11K65M	PL
		Stage 2 burn
	1308?	Stage 2 cutoff
	1402?	Stage 2 burn 2
	1403?	Stage 2 sep
1970 Dec 15	2130		104.75 978 x 986 x 74.0

Apollo 12: The NASA Mission Reports Vol 1

 https://welib.org/md5/3303551c530c3f9860f44be8f317c5ea

Fortune: January 24,2000

 https://welib.org/md5/6f9d2ad4ad92e053728ab985436c8c52

Meteor-1 4

  1970-037A

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Meteor F4 was launched in Apr 1970. It went into an orbit with a slightly higher apogee than normal. It was reported to be still transmitting in Jun 1971.

Meteor F4
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1970 Apr 28	1050:00	Launch by 8A92M	PL
	1054?	Blok E burn
	1100?	Blok E sep
1970 Apr 29	0120		622 x 707 x 81.23
1970 May 2		(Blok E)	569 x 783 x 81.2
1970s		End of operations

STS-36 (Atlantis)

 1990-019A

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Atlantis flight 6 was another classified military mission. The short flight entered the highest inclination orbit ever achieved by a Shuttle, 62 degrees. Normally, launches from Cape Canaveral are restricted to at most 57 degrees inclination to avoid passing too close to the US East Coast. It is believed that the main payload was a TRW/Lockheed Improved CRYSTAL (modified KH-11) imaging reconnaissance satellite.

STS-36
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1990 Jan 19		Tow to VAB
1990 Jan 25	1154	Rollout	LC39A
1990 Feb 28	0750:22	Launch from LC39A
	0752:25	SRB sep
	0758:52	MECO
	0759:10	ET sep	86.83 26? x 208? x 62.0 (OMS dV)
	0822:20	OMS-2 1:45 51m/s?
	0824:05	OMS-2 CO
	0900?		88.55 196 x 208 x 62.0
	0922:39	PLBD open
	1200?		88.59 200 x 209 x 62.0
	1342?	RCS? raise orbit
	1431:13	OMS-3? raise orbit
	1431:41	OMS-3 CO
	1500?		89.47 243 x 243 x 62.0
1990 Mar 1	0900?		89.45 241 x 253 x 62.0
	1030	Asc node, start rev 18
	1050?	Deployed Improved CRYSTAL?
	1118	Desc node rev 18
	1205	Asc node, start rev 19
	1801	Asc node, start rev 23
	1846	Desc node S eq crossing (deploy opp?)
	1910:22	OMS-4 L lower apogee
	1910:37	OMS-4 CO
	1930?		89.30 238 x 241 x 62.0
1990 Mar 3	1141		89.27 236 x 240 x 62.0
	1135:22	OMS-5 R lower perigee
	1135:42	OMS-5 CO
	1200		89.06 216 x 239 x 62.0
1990 Mar 4	1141		89.03 215 x 237 x 62.0
	1458:49	PLBD close
	1711:17	OMS Deorbit 2:05 78m/s
	1713:23	OMS DO CO
	1737:40	Entry
	1808:44	Landed RW23 EAFB
	1808:55	Nose gear touchdown
	1809:37	Wheels stop
1990 Mar 11	1245	SCA takeoff	EAFB
	1700	SCA landing	Biggs AAF, TX
1990 Mar 12	0845	SCA takeoff
	1120	SCA landing	Columbus AFB MS
	1240	SCA takeoff
	1430	SCA landing	KSC SLF
	1900	Tow to OPF/2