Saturday, January 20, 2001

Kosmos 398

  1971-016A


T2K No. 2 was launched in Feb 1971. The Blok-E engine was used to raise the orbit to 1200 km apogee; the descent section was jettisoned and a second burn raised the apogee to 11000 km. A supplementary ion flux meter was again carried.


Kosmos-398 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1971 Feb 26  0506:21  Launch by 11A511L  KB  
 0511?  Blok-I burn  
 0515?  Blok-I sep  
 2113   88.86 189 x 252 x 51.61  
1971 Feb 28  0425?Blok-E burn, descent simulation  98.51 186 x 1189 x 51.60 (TLE) 
 0510?Descent section jettison 
 0619?  Possible burn 2, 1 orbit early over KB 
 0955?  Blok-E burn 2, ascent simulation 215.46 210 x 10845 x 51.76 
1971 Mar 1  0000   216.15 200 x 10905 x 51.59  
1971 Mar 2   End of transmissions 
1989 Jun 13    137.06 200 x 4655 x 51.6 
1995 Dec 10   Reentered  87.28 122 x 156 x 51.4 

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