Wednesday, April 26, 2000

Vortex 11

 1984-009A


A rumour that VORTEX 11 had a Transtage failure and was stranded in transfer orbit was probably incorrect and arose from the DoD's practice of only announcing the transfer and not the final orbit.


VORTEX 11 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1984 Jan 31  0308:00  Launch by Titan 34D/Transtage  CC 
  T+1:50 Stage 1 ignition 
  T+2:02 SRM sep 
  T+4:35 St 1 sep 
 0312 T+4:45 Fairing sep 
 0316  Stage 2 MECO 
 0316 T+8:05 Stage 2 sep 
 
 0330?  Transtage burn 1 (310s) 
 0335?  Burn 1 cutoff 
  5h15m coast 
 0850?  Transtage burn 2 (110s) 
 0852? Burn 2 cutoff 
 0900? Transtage sep 
1984 Feb 1   (r/b) 96.3 145 x 1022 x 29.3 
1984 Feb 10?    1436.0 31200 x 40200 x 5.0

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