Kope’s Outer Space Directory

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Kiku 2

 1977-014A

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ETS-2 (Kiku-2) was built by Mitsubishi with its US partner Ford. It was Japan's first geostationary satellite. ETS-2 carried an ionospheric beacon for scientific and communications research.

Kiku-2
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1977 Feb 23	0850	Launch by N-1	TNSC
		T+0:39 SOB burnout
		T+1:20 SOB sep
		T+3:41 MECO 100 km
		T+3:47 VECO
		T+3:48 St 1 sep
		T+3:50 SES-1
		T+4:10 Fairing
	0857	T+7:56 SECO	-3310 x 211 x 30.3
	0912	T+22:56 St 2 sep
	0913	T+23:10 TES
	0913	T+23:50 TECO
	0915	T+24:59 Stage 3 sep	191 x 36000
1977 Feb 26	0532	AKM	34032 x 35754 x 0? GEO 84E
1977 Feb 26	2220	Reorient orbit	34063 x 35710 GEO 84E
1977 Feb 27	2357	Orb adjust 3m/s	34211 x 35710 GEO 108E
1977 Feb 28	2302	Orb adjust 20m/s	35282 x 35711 GEO 118E
1977 Mar 2	1038	Orb adjust 1m/s	35279 x 35781 GEO 124E
1977 Mar 3	2206	Orb adj 6m/s	35607 x 35781 GEO 128E
1977 Mar 4	2158	Orb adj 3m/s	35781 x 35786 GEO 130E
1977 Mar 5		On station	GEO 130E
1978 May		Main mission complete
1980 Oct			GEO 130E
1981 Jun-Oct		Tracked at 82E to 40E, possible mis-id?
1981 Dec			GEO 130E
1982 Jun			GEO 130E
1983 Jun			GEO 130E
1985 Apr			GEO 130E
1987 Jan 7			GEO 130E
1990 Aug 28			1435.98 35781 x 35787 x 9.3 GEO 130.0E
1990 Oct 11			1435.96 35776 x 35791 x 9.4 GEO 130.0E
1990 Dec 10		mv out
1991 May 11			1435.86 34603 x 35960 x 10.8 GEO 98.6E+0.05E
1991 Aug 19			1440.03 35852 x 35874 x 10.1 GEO 110.6W+1.0W
1999 Apr 21			1439.84 35839 x 35880 x 14.2

Progress 6

 1979-039A

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7K-TG No. 106 (Progress-6) was launched on 1979 May 13, docking with Salyut-6 two days later. It undocked on June 8 but remained stationkeeping with Salyut-6 until Soyuz-34 completed its automatic docking. Progress-6 finally separated from the vicinity of the station late on June 8 and was deorbited a day later.

Progress-6
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1979 May 13	0417:10	Launch by Soyuz-U	KB
	0421	Blok I burn
	0425	Blok I MECO
	0500		88.86 190 x 247 x 51.62
	1200		90.92 307 x 333 x 51.61
1979 May 14	1400		91.00 313 x 335 x 51.6
1979 May 15	0619:22	Docked with Salyut-6
1979 May 21	1400		91.11 320 x 338 x 51.63
1979 Jun 8	0759:41	Undocked from Salyut-6
		Stationkeeping
	2010?	Sep burn
1979 Jun 9	0500		91.65 348 x 364 x 51.63
	1851:46	Deorbited over Pacific
	1917?	Reentered over Pacific

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