Friday, September 29, 2000

Geo-IK 1

 1994-078A


The last Musson satellite was given the open name Geo-IK and was not assigned a Kosmos number. Geo-IK carried a secondary payload, the Elekon transponder. This may have been to research LEO comsat technology.


Geo-IK 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1994 Nov 29  0254:00  Launch by Tsiklon-3  PL LC32 
  T+2:00 St 1 sep 
  T+3:33 GO sep 
  T+4:38 St 2 sep, alt 126 km  -2400? x 170? x 73.6  
  T+5:19 S5M burn 1, alt 143 km  -2400? x 170? x 73.6  
 0300  T+6:48 S5M MECO-1, alt 173 km  90 x 1502 x 73.6 
 0343  T+49:37 BOZ burn 
 0345  T+51:15 S5M MES2  90 x 1502 x 73.6  
 0345  T+51:33 S5M MECO2 
 0346  T+52:03 S5M sep 
1994 Nov 30    116.06 1479 x 1527 x 73.6 
1995 Jul   End of main ops? 
1999 Feb 5   End of operations 
1999 Feb 9    116.06 1480 x 1426 x 73.6 

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