Tuesday, April 12, 1994

Vega 2

 1984-128A


Vega-2 (Venera-Galley 2, 5VK No. 902) was launched on 1984 Dec 21.


Vega-2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1984 Dec 21  0913:52  Launch by Proton  KB 
 0923?  Stage 3 MECO 
 0927? 11S824M burn 1  
 0929? 11S824M MECO1  
 1027? 11S824M burn 2   
 1031  Asc node 
 1035? 11S824M MECO2  Solar orbit 
 1035? 11S824M sep 
 1947? Pass EL1:4 
1984 Dec 26 1730? Pass L1 
1985 Jan?   TCM-1 
1985 Jun ?   TCM-2 
1985 Jun 11  2200?  Enter Venus sphere 
1985 Jun 14   Venus encounter, 24500 km 
1985 Jun 18  0815? Leave Venus sphere 
1986 Mar 9  0720:06 Halley encounter, 8036 km at 0.8341 AU from Sun 
1987   Decommissioned 

1984-128E

The Vega-2 Spuskaemiy Apparat landed on Venus on 1985 Jun 15. Landing site was 6 27 S, 181 05E, at 2.6 km below mean 6050 km radius. (other sources give 8.5S 164.5E (NSSDC);27 0S 181 05 (unk); 7.2S 179.4E (KI25-643)). Conditions were 90 atm, 729K.


Vega-2 SA 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1984 Dec   Launch by Proton  KB 
1985 Jun 13   Sep from Vega-2 
1985 Jun 15  0159:30  Entry, 10.80 km/s 19.08 deg 125 km  -480 x -68300  
  93 km begin science data 
 0200:05  Drogue para deploy 65 km 280 m/s  
 
  Begin 64 min descent 
 0200:16 E+1 min Heat shield upper half sep, 64 km 160 m/s 
 0200:16 Balloon sep and parachute, (w upper half) 57 km 30m/s 
 0200:16  Deploy main chute 64.5 km  
 0200:20  Lower half shell sep 63 km, 100 m/s 
 0209:15  Main chute release 47 km 20 m/s 
 0300:50 Landed on Venus 
 0322  End of transmission, 21 min 


1984-128F

The 3-m balloon was deployed at an altitude of 55 km from the Vega-2 SA and transmitted for 46 hr.


Vega-2 AZ 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1985 Jun 14   Sep from Vega-2 SA 
1985 Jun 15  0200:16 E+1 min Heat shield upper half sep, 64 km 160 m/s 
 0200:38 Balloon sep 62 km 
 0200:46  Balloon drogue parachute, 57 km 30m/s 
 0203:16  Balloon main para 
 0206:04  Input at 179.8E 7.5S 
 0206:16  Toroidal lower half sep 
 0206:36 Fill balloon envelope 55 km 8m/s 
 0210:26 Parachute and filling system sep 53 km, 5m/s 
 0211?  Ballast release H=50 km 
 0215? Begin drift after 15 min, 54 km  
1985 Jun 16  0910  Terminator passage at 111.0E 7.5S, 7400 km range 
1985 Jun 17  0038:01 End of transmissions, 76.3E 7.5S, 11100 km range 

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