Tuesday, April 10, 2001

Kosmos 596

  1973-070A


Kosmos-596 was recovered 7 days after launch from Plesetsk in Oct 1973, just after the outbreak of the Yom Kippur war. The Kettering group detected a TG recovery beacon. The satellite carried an FEU-170 capsule which Energiya reports was recovered on Oct 8.


Kosmos-596 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1973 Oct 3  1300:00  Launch by 11A57  PL  
 1304 Blok-I burn  
 1308 Blok-I sep  
 1900   89.42 206 x 287 x 65.41 (RAE) 
 2012   89.42 205 x 286 x 65.4 
1973 Oct 5  2123   89.39 205 x 283 x 65.4 
1973 Oct 8  2352   89.29 206 x 272 x 65.4 
1973 Oct 8   Capsule sep  89.25 203 x 273 x 65.40 (RAE) 
 0730?  FEU-170 deorbit 
 0735?  TDU sep 
 0740? Entry 
 0755? Landed 
1973 Oct 10  0714? Retrofire 
 0724? PO sep 
 0730? Entry  -188 x 234 x 65.41 
 0745? Landed after 6.8d 

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