This New Ocean

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Crystal 1

  1976-125A

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The first KH-11, satellite 5501, was launched on 1976 Dec 19 by Titan 23D from Vandenberg into a 1001 LTDN SSO. The early versions had 2.4m mirrors; later versions may have had larger mirrors.

KENNEN 1
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1976 Dec 19	1819	Launch by Titan 23D	V
		T+1:49? Stage 1 burn 2:27
		T+1:55 SRM burnout
		T+1:55 SRM sep
		T+4:16 Stage 1 MECO
		T+4:16 Stage 1 sep
		T+4:16 Stage 2 burn
		T+5:05? Fairing
	1826?	T+7:44? Stage 2 MECO
	1827?	T+8:00 Stage 2 sep
1976 Dec 22			92.4 247 x 553 x 97.0
1976 Dec 24			93.4 341 x 535 x 97.0
1977 Jan 20		First operational photos
1977 Mar 27			92.5 264 x 530 x 96.9
1977 Dec			91.6 258 x 450 x 96.9
1978 Dec			91.5 333 x 336 x 96.9
1979 Jan 10			333 x 366 x 96.9
1979 Jan 28		Deorbit after 770d

Kosmos 125

  1966-067A

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The second and last 11A510 flight carried a similar RORSAT development payload, Kosmos-125. It was reported to have tested an ion engine orientation system.

Kosmos-125
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1966 Jul 20	0858?	Launch by 11A510	KB
	0903?	Blok A sep
	0908?	US engine burn
		US engine cutoff
1966 Jul 20	1617		89.44 231 x 262 x 65.0
1966 Jul 21	1136		89.12 202 x 259 x 65.0
1966 Jul 24		end of ops
1966 Jul 31	0357		88.25 169 x 206 x 65.0
1966 Aug 2	1438?	Reentered

Kosmos 241

  1968-077A

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Zenit-4 No. 49 was launched from Plesetsk; it was in orbit at the same time as Kosmos-240.

Kosmos-241
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1968 Sep 16	1230:01	Launch by 11A57	PL
	1234	Blok-I burn
	1239	Blok-I sep
1968 Sep 17	0443		89.73 197 x 324 x 65.4
1968 Sep 19	1631		89.68 196 x 320 x 65.4
1968 Sep 24	0707?	Retrofire
	0728?	Landed after 7.79d

Kosmos 218

  1968-037A

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OGCh tests resumed in Apr 1968 with Kosmos-218, deorbited after the usual one-orbit profile.

Kosmos-218
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1968 Apr 25	0045:10	Launch by 8K69	KB
	0047?	Stage 2 burn
	0050?	Stage 2 sep	87.3 123 x 169 x 49.6 (RAE)
	0050?	Adapter sep
	0213?	Deorbit
	0214?	Retro sep
	0216?	Impact near GTsP4?

Friendship 7

  1962-003A

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The first orbital Mercury flight was Mercury-Atlas 6, using Spacecraft 13. Lt-Col John H Glenn, Jr, USMC, entered orbit on 1962 Feb 20 and landed in the Atlantic a few hours later.

Launch mass was 1935 kg. Orbit mass was 1355 kg; the retropack may have been around 120-150 kg. The deorbit reduced the spacecraft’s velocity by 0.155 km/s.

MA-6
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1962 Feb 20	1447:39	Launch by Atlas 109D	-6378 x 8
	1449:49	T+2:10 BECO 63 km	-5987 x 235
	1449:53	T+2:14s Booster sep 66.5 km 2.81 km/s	-5978 x 238 x 33
	1450:12	T+2:33 LES sep 89 km, 3.01 km/s	-5877 x 253 x 33
	1452:40	T+5:01 SECO
	1452:42	T+5:03 Atlas 109D sep	159 x 263 x 32.54
	1920:47	Retrofire
	1928:05	Entry
	1930:14	Retropack destroyed
	1943:02	Landing in Atlantic Ocean 4:55:23
	2003	Recovered by USS Noa

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Kosmos 183

  1967-099A

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Another OGCh flight took place on 1967 Oct 18, launched by R-36O No. 16L.

Kosmos-183
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1967 Oct 18	1330	Launch by 8K69	KB LC162
	1332	Stage 2 burn
	1335	Stage 2 sep	88.90 130 x 315 x 49.63
	1335	Adapter sep
	1459?	Deorbit
	1500?	Retro sep
	1502?	Impact near GTsP4?

SVH animated series: future excerpts

 Jessica (clears throat): Helen, the integrity of the squad is in trouble thanks to Annie Whitman.

Helen (curiously): How? What did she do?

Jessica: You know what kind of girl she is, don’t you? One night I see her with Bruce Patman,the next with Paul Manning,a third with Rick Andover. I get that she's boy-crazy - so am I - but I feel that one boy-crazy girl is enough for the squad! (takes a deep breath) I personally would like to nominate Cara - we've known her for a long time and she'd be great for our image. Can I count on your vote for her?

Helen: Why,sure thing,Jess. It'd be nice for her to be on the team.

Jessica: We still need a second girl for the team - who's your choice,Hel?

Helen: I think Tamara Chase would be my pick - she's pretty and popular. What about you,Jessica?

Jessica: I'm more into Sandra Bacon - she and Jeannie are besties and she's sporty enough that she'd be good for our image.

 

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Jessica: Listen,Maria,if I don't ace the next chem quiz I get put on academic probation. You know what that means,don't you?

Maria: I don't want you off the squad,Jess,nor do any of us. You're gonna have to hit the books,girlfriend!

Patty: You said it,Mare.

Jeannie: C'mon,guys,let's finish this up so Jess can go study.

Jessica: Ready.....okay!

[Practice continues]

Scene 2 - Mr Russo's office

[Winston and Peggy, chemistry TAs for the day, are in the office, rearranging files]

Winston: I never knew this could be hard work,and I make straight As in chemistry! What about you,Peg?

Peggy: Bs mostly. English is my best subject. Wait,what are those?

[She points to a box]

Winston: Student files,it looks like. [He starts digging through the files] Christina Abbot,1983. You related?

Peggy: That's my sister!

Winston (ignoring her): Kenny O'Reilly,1978........Jena Hoeman,1982.........Sara Mitchell,1981........Mark Luther,1980.......Brenda Kelso,1976.........Josie Carson,1980........Heather Birkett,1984........Mike Trost,1979........Nikki Warren,1983......Tom Levy,1981......Emma Chenier,1982........

Peggy: You’ve made your point,Win!

Winston (digging through the files): Hey,look,the old chem practice test from ‘80! This’ll be real useful on Friday’s test!

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[Caroline leans in close to Mandy]

Caroline: Did you hear Jess and Cara got jobs at the Valley Mall?

Mandy: Why am I not surprised? I know Mr Wakefield's a "penny-pincher" - Jessica's words. She says he's the cheapest guy in town.

Caroline: Thanks for the info,Mandy - pass this on to Anne-Marie Conklin,okay? She'll pass it to Heather Sanford since they're neighbors. Bye!

Scene 12 - an ice cream counter at the Valley Mall

[We hear the busy hum of customers in the background. Annie Whitman,wearing a gold uniform,stands at the counter.]

Annie: Man,I wish I'd get a real job somewhere else - not flipping ice cream for $5 an hour, that gets old real quick.

[Maria Santelli strolls up to the counter]

Maria (delighted): Hey,Annie,fancy seeing you here!

Annie: What can I get you,Ria? Free discount for any SVH student,y'know.

Maria: Strawberry?

Annie: We're out of strawberry,sorry.

Maria: Blueberry - I like blueberry.

Annie: I believe we have that - (checks scoreboard) - yep,we do. One blueberry ice cream coming right up,Ria - cone or dish?

Maria: Dish - I'm expecting Winston.

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[Elizabeth goes into the event hall,Jessica following]

Dana: And thanks to our work,you're gonna have a totally marvy evening,with your REAL pals! Happy birthday,Carrie!

[Dana places her free arm about Caroline's shoulders. Inside the hall,Caroline sees a nice-looking cake on a table. Quite a few SVH students are milling about the room. 
Her parents stand at either end of the table and Anita is next to their mother.]

Caroline:Thank you,thank you all!

All:Happy birthday,Caroline! [they all join in singing her Happy Birthday to You]

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[Soundtrack: "Believe", sung by Alex Warner]

[Montage:  Sweet Valley scenes, late on a moonless night:

The port,a few unlit fishing boats moored beside the quays

The Dairi Burger,the parking lot empty of cars,a few maintenance lights shining within

The shopping mall,awaiting a new day and new customers

(over the next shot we see the title logo -  Perfect Summer : A Sweet Valley High Summer Special)

The Wakefield residence on Calico Drive, two cars in the parking lot, a single light shining within

A residential street, a few cars passing through on their way to LA or Orange County

Olivia Davidson's Victorian-style house, a bike rack in front and a car waiting by a garage

Fowler Crest at the top of its hill, an automated lawnmower working its extensive gardens

The school, a tour bus idling by the main entrance]

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Dana: This is a marvy party,Lila! Great food,great friends,great fun,and great music,y'know?

Lila (smiling tearfully): That means the world to me,Dana. Say,maybe in the new year you and I ought to hang out sometime,okay?

Dana: Of course,Li! Just say when. The Droids and I, we're always down for a big ol' bash.

STS-108 (Endeavour)

 2001-054A

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UF-1 brought up the Ex4 crew and returned the Ex3 crew. UF-1 will return three biotech lockers delivered in 1999 and deliver four new biotech lockers and four lockers with a fluid physics experiment and SAMS. These go in the lab module EXPRESS racks.

The P6 beta gimbals had shown spikes in power consumption, and so an EVA was planned to install thermal blankets to increase protection for them.

Prelaunch mass predictions are given below (initial docked mass with ISS 249 tonnes).

 

Stage	Mass
Post-
MECO	116550 kg
OMS-2	114647 kg
NC1	112989 kg
RV	111437 kg
DK	111437 + 137547 kg
Pre-UDK	109473 + 138307 kg
UDK	109473 kg
PRE-DO	109085 kg

Rendezvous went smoothly; it took longer than usual to damp out relative motion after soft docking.

STS-108
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2001 Oct 24		Move to VAB/1 from OPF/1
2001 Oct 31		Roll to LC39B
2001 Nov 29		Scrub T-11h at Progress issue
2001 Dec 4		Scrub T-5min WX
2001 Dec 5	2219:28	Launch
	2221:32	SRB sep
	2221:42	OMS ASS
	2222:33	OMS ASS CO
	2227:54	MECO
	2228:16	ET sep	58 x 230 x 51.6
	2257	ET apogee
	2257:14	OMS-2 1:49 51m/s
	2259:02	OMS-2 CO	225 x 230 x 51.6
	2331?	ET reentry 75 km at 35S 160W
	2359:22	PLBD open begin	89.06 222 x 234 x 51.6
2001 Dec 6	0003	PLBD open complete
	0133:27	OMS 3 NC1 (NH?) T+3:14 mass 114692 kg 1:41
	0135:08	OMS 3 CO
			91.05 273 x 377 x 51.6
	1726:08	OMS-4 NC2
	1726:27	OMS-4 CO
2001 Dec 7	0033	NC3 (NPC) 1m/s RCS	91.08 274 x 380 x 51.6
	1611:50	OMS-5 NC4 burn	91.97 360 x 381 x 51.6
	1612:50	OMS 5 CO
	1718	20 km to ISS, go for TI
	1745	TI	92.07 368 x 383 x 51.6
	1851	MC3
	1858	1 km away
	1900s	MC4
	1914	-Rbar 180m
	1930	On Vbar at 100m
	1942	40m	92.10 370 x 384 x 51.6
	2003:26	Docking
	2010	Prepare to hard dock
	2051	Hard dock
	2243	HO	92.08 370 x 383 x 51.64
2001 Dec 8	1548	RMS uncradle
	1614:10	RMS grapple Raffaello	92.09 370 x 383 x 51.6
	1644	Raffaello unlatched
	1701	Raffaello unberth
	1755	Raffaello berth on Unity
	1809:20	RMS ungrapple
	1825	RMS recradle
		13 kg of GN2 to Quest
2001 Dec 9	0011	Seats installed; EX4 on ISS crew
	1511:40	Reboost
	1739		92.16 372 x 388 x 51.6
2001 Dec 10	1736	Begin depress
	1739	At 5 psi
	1743	End leak check, resume depress
	1747?	Depress EVA-1 EV1 Godwin,EV2 Tani
	1747:58	AL end depress
	1749	HO
	1753	Batt power
	1801	TC open
	1803	Egress EV1
	1814	Egress EV2	92.15 372 x 387 x 51.6
	1843	Ride RMS to P6
		Climb to BMRRM work site
	1910	Install port thermal blankets on BMRRMs
	2010	Install stbd thermal blankets on BMRRMs
	2030	Fail to engage P6 gimbal latch
		Retrieve S-band trnasponder blanket
		Pick up tools for 8A flight at Z1
	2142	EV2 ingress
	2150	Ingress EV1
	2157	HC
	2205:16	Repress
2001 Dec 11			92.13 373 x 384 x 51.6
	1619:40	Reboost
	1714		92.22 373 x 392 x 51.6
2001 Dec 12	1522:32	Reboost
	1748		92.36 377 x 402 x 51.6
2001 Dec 14
	1922:43	RMS grapple MPLM
	2118?	Unberth from Unity CBM	92.29 374 x 399 x 51.6
	2244?	Reberth MPLM in bay
	2257:00	Ungrapple MPLM
2001 Dec 15	1316	HC to ISS
	1455:40	COLA burn 20min (4th reboost of mission)
	1515	COLA complete, 1 km raise
	1728:25	Undocking from PMA-2
	1753	At 126m on vbar, begin flyaround
	1807	On +rbar
	1822	On -vbar, sep-1 burn
	1829	On -rbar, at 380m and opening	92.28 383 x 390 x 51.6
	1839	1.1km range, 2m/s?
	1852	Sep-2 burn at 2.5km 10m/s?
	2329:28	OMS-6
	2329:43	OMS-6 CO
2001 Dec 16	1356	RCS check in progress
	1502:34	Deploy Starshine-2	92.03 357 x 390 x 51.6
	1851:37	OMS-7
	1851:47	OMS-7 CO
2001 Dec 17	1416	Begin PLBD close
	1418:55	PLBD closed
	1648:13	OMS DO 93m/s	91.85 353 x 376 x 51.6
	1651:21	OMS DO CO	88.64 37 x 376 x 51.6
	1723:15	Entry
	1755:12	Landed KSC RW15 11:19:35:42
	1755:23	NGTD
	1756:13	WS

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Molniya 336

 1989-094A

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Molniya-3 F38 (N36) was launched on 1989 Nov 28.

Molniya-3 No. 46
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1989 Nov 28	1002	Launch by 8K78M	PL
		BVGD sep
		GO sep
		T+4:46 Blok A sep
		T+4:56 KhO sep
		T+8:46 Blok-I MECO
	1010	T+8:50 Blok-I sep
		T+53:16 BOZ burn
	1055	T+53:56 BOZ sep
		ML burn
		T+56:46 ML MECO
	1058	T+56:54 ML sep
1989 Nov 28			92.38 211 x 570 x 62.8 (C)
1989 Nov 28	1200		735.61 628 x 40602 x 62.8
1989 Dec 3			735.67 637 x 40595 x 62.9
1989 Dec 3	1200		716.86 635 x 39673 x 62.8
1993 Jul		End of stationkeeping
1993 Nov		End of ops
2000 May 19		Reentered

Kosmos 154

  1967-032C

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The second 7K-L1 spacecraft, 11F91 No. 3P (L-1 No. 3) was launched on 1967 Apr 8. Chertok reports that a circumlunar flight was planned.

The Proton third stage delivered the L-1 and its Blok-D upper stage to a suborbital trajectory and the first Blok-D burn made low parking orbit. The SOZ ullage motors were jettisoned prematurely and the Blok-D stage was not restarted for the second burn (which would have come after 1 day in orbit).

To ensure the third stage falls in the Pacific rather than on Japan, we can either assume a flat trajectory at D ignition with a -500 km perigee or a slightly rising trajectory with a -1000 km perigee.

Kosmos-154
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1967 Apr 8	0900:33	Launch by Proton-K	KB LC81
	0905	Stage 3 burn
	0909	Stage 3 sep	-500? x 190 x 51.5
			-1000? x 200? x 51.5
	0910?	Blok-D burn
	0912?	orbit insertion	88.55 185 x 221 x 51.50
1967 Apr 8		SOZ jettison
1967 Apr 9?	0900?	Blok-D failed to fire
1967 Apr 10	1700		88.37 180 x 208 x 51.52
1967 Apr 13		End of transmissions

Kosmos 97

  1965-095A

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DS-U2-M No. 1 was launched into an elliptical orbit with an apogee of over 2000 km. It carried an experimental spaceborne maser for use as a satellite frequency standard. The test was probably related to navigation satellite technology, although atomic clock based navsats would not be used by the USSR until the 1980s.

Kosmos-97
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1965 Nov 26	1214?	Launch by 63S1M	GTsP4
	1216?	Stage 2 burn
	1220?	Stage 2 sep
			213 x 2144 x 48.4
1966 Jan 23		End of operations
1967 Apr 2		Reentered

Tiros 10

  1965-051A

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The TOS satellites were funded by the Weather Bureau (later ESSA), managed by NASA-OSSA at the program level and NASA-GSFC at the project level.

The first Tiros Operational Satellite, Tiros OT1, used the old Tiros bus rather than the `wheel' bus prototyped by Tiros IX. However, it was placed in sun-synchronous orbit for the first time in the Tiros program. Launched on 1965 Jul 2 at 0407 from Kennedy, its launch vehicle successfully made the required two dogleg burns. The third stage was yawed prior to burn and fired during southbound equator crossing, and at 0420 delivered the satellite to a 751 x 837 km x 98.7 deg polar orbit, the first sun-synchronous Tiros satellite. Despin did not occur automatically and was commanded on orbit 2 from Fairbanks. The satellite received the on-orbit designation Tiros X. Afer checkout, NASA delivered Tiros X to the newly created ESSA. Subsequent TOS satellites would be given ESSA names after launch. Tiros X operated until 1967 Jul 1 and by Dec 1993 was in a 721 x 807 km x 98.8 deg orbit.

Tiros 10
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1965 Jul 2	0407:00	Launch by Delta	CK LC17B
		T+1:30 Begin right yaw
		T+1:51 End right yaw
	0409:23	T+2:23 Thor MECO
	0409	Delta S/N 20113 burn, 2:45
	0412	Delta SECO
		7:20 coast
		Pitch down 47 deg
		Yaw left 8 deg
		Injection over 84W 0N
	0420	Altair RH-84 burn, 23s
	0420	Altair burnout	751 x 837 x 98.7
	0730?	Despin
1965 Jul		To ESSA
1967 Jul 1		End of ops
1993 Dec			721 x 807 x 98.8

Whose values? : reflections of a New England prep school teacher

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