Tuesday, October 8, 2002

Raduga 2

 1976-092A


Raduga (Gran') No. 12 was launched in Sep 1976 and stationed at 85E. NORAD stopped tracking in 1980 and resumed in 1987. The satellite was drifting slowly in the Indian Ocean gravitational stable point in the late 1990s. 


Raduga No. 12 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1976 Sep 11  1824 Launch by Proton-K  KB 
 1833  Stage 3 MECO  177 x 184 x 51.5 
 1941? DM burn 1  331 x 35802 x 47.3  
1976 Sep 12  0057? DM burn 2 
 0101? DM sep 
   GEO 85E 
1977 Sep 5    1436.24 35770 x 35808 x 0.4 GEO 85.3E 
1978 Apr 29    1436.14 35776 x 35797 x 0.9 GEO 85.9E 
1980 May 23    1436.09 35764 x 35808 x 2.4 GEO 85.7E 
1985? end of ops
1987 Apr 23    1435.71 35661 x 35896 x 8.0 GEO 72.7E 
1987 Jul 26    1435.77 34675 x 35885 x 8.2 GEO 81.6E+0.07 
1988   Drift 85E-67E 
1999 Apr 20    1436.07 35694 x 35877 x 15.0 GEO 63.2E 

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