Saturday, March 9, 2002

Saturn S-IVB-506

  1969-059B


SA-506 was launched at 1332:00 on 1969 Jul 16 on the Apollo 11 mission. The S-IVB reignited for the TLI burn at 1616. Apollo 11 separated at 1749. S-IVB-506 passed the Moon at 4334 km on 1969 Jul 19 at 2022:34 and entered a solar orbit of 134.30 x 151.86 Mkm x 0.38 deg, 342 days.


SA-506 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1969 Jul 16  1332:00  Launch by Saturn V (SA-506)  KSC LC39A 
 1334:15  S-IC CECO, 44.4 km 
 1334:41  S-IC OECO, 66.3 km 
 1334:42  S-IC sep, 67.0 km 
 1334:43  S-II ignition, 67.6 km 
 1335:12  Interstage sep, 91.8 km 
 1335:18  LES sep 
 1336:29  S-IC apogee, 115 km  -5998 x 114 x 32.1 
 1339:40  S-II CECO, 179.3 km 
 1341:03  S-IC impact, 30.21N 74.04W 
 1341:11  S-II OECO, 185.9 km 
 1341:12  S-II sep, 185.9 km  -2112 x 189  
 1341:15  S-IVB burn 1 ignition, 185.9km 
 1341:21  Ullage case jettison 
 1341:47  S-II apogee, 189 km 
 1343:42  S-IVB cutoff, 188.4 km  
 1343:49  Earth orbit insertion  88.18 183 x 196 x 32.52 
 1352:14  S-II impact, 31.54N 34.84W 
 1616:27  S-IVB TLI burn (5:47) 
 1622:03  S-4B MECO-2 
   224 x 527965 x 31.39 (V) 
   224 x 529545 x 31.39 (C3) 
 1622:13  Translunar injection 
   222 x 564184 x 31.38 (V) 
   224 x 566485 x 31.38 (C3) 
 1647:23  CSM sep from LM/S-IVB 
 1656:03  CSM docked with LM/S-IVB 
 1749:03  CSM/LM undocked from S-IVB 
 1823:08  CVS LH2 vent 7.3m/s 
 1835:07  LOX dump 180s 17m/s 
 1836:55  LOX dump end 
 1857:00  H2 NPV 
 1909:47  APS burn 280s 12m/s 
 1914:27  APS cutoff 
1969 Jul 19  2022?  Lunar flyby at 3379 km altitude 

Friday, March 8, 2002

Helios 1

  1974-097A


The Helios solar probes were a joint project between DFVLR and NASA, which provided the Titan Centaur launch vehicle.  Helios 1 was launched on 1974 Dec 10 by Titan IIIE Centaur from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 41. Two Centaur burns placed the Helios probe in solar orbit. The Centaur TC-2 stage then made two retrograde test burns, which happened to leave it in an orbit bound to the Earth - it thus became the first object known to have returned to Earth orbit from a solar orbit trajectory with the possible exception of Apollo lunar spacecraft. NORAD cataloged two objects in a 1765 x 157261 km x 31.8 deg orbit; object D, the second object, may be a duplicate of the first or may represent some kind of debris from the Centaur after venting. However, the name of the object was later changed to 'Helios 1 debris' and with its elements marked in the Satellite Situation Report as 'heliocentric orbit', it may be the Star 37E tumble weight.


Helios 1 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1974 Dec 10  0711:01 Launch  
  T+1:40 Forward bearing reactor sep 
  T+1:51 Stage 1 MES 
 0713:05 T+2:04 SRM sep 
  T+4:18 Stage 1 MECO 
 0715 T+4:19 Titan stage 1 sep 
 0715 T+4:19 Stage 2 MES 
 0716 T+5:18 Fairing 
 0718:50 T+7:49 St 2 MECO 165 km 7.01 km/s  
 0718:53 T+7:52 Titan stage 2 sep -1950? x 165 x 29.9  
 0719:04 T+8:03 Centaur TC-2 MES1, 100.8s 
 0720:42 T+9:44 Centaur TC-2 MECO1, start 21.9 min coast 
 0726?  Stage 2 reentry  
 0742:40 T+31:39 Centaur TC-2 MES2, 276s,  
 0747:14 T+36:13 Centaur MECO-2 255 km? 
  T+37:23 Spinup 
 0748:26 T+37:25 Centaur TC-2 sep from Helios 1/Star 37 
  Clamp band halves separate 
 0748:26 T+37:25 TC-2 retro  
 0749:06 T+38:05.76 Star 37E burn, 44.90s (action time 43.6s) 
 0749:51 T+38:50.66 Star 37E burnout 528 km  289 x -21954 x 29.80 
  Payload clamp band 
 0751:02 T+40:01 Star 37E sep  Solar orbit 180d, 0.30958 x 1.0 AU x 0.016 
 0751:06 T+40:05 Yo deploy 
 1156  Helios/Star 37 pass EL1:4 
 1654  Centaur clamp pass EL1:4 
1974 Dec 12  0330? Helios/Star 37 exit Earth sphere (L1) 
1974 Dec 15  1200? Centaur clamp band exit Earth sphere 
1975 Feb 15  0915Perihelion, 0.30AU 
1976 Mar 29   Perihelion 3 
1976 Jul 2   Aphelion 3 
1982   Still operating 

Payload:

  • E1 Solar wind plasma expt (MPE/Rosenbauer)

  • E2 Fluxgate magnetometer (TU Braunschweig/Musmann)

  • E3 Fluxgate magnetometer (GSFC/Ness)

  • E4 Search coil magnetometer (Braunschweig/Dehmei)

  • E5 32 m antenna for plasm and radiowave expt, 50 kHz-2 MHz (Iowa/Gurnett)

  • E6 Cosmic ray expt (Kiel/Kunow)

  • E7 Cosmic ray expt (GSFC/Trainor)

  • E8 Electron detector (MPIA-Lindau/Keppler)

  • E9 Zodiacal light photometer (LSW-Heidelberg/Leinert)

Wednesday, March 6, 2002

Kosmos 1424

 1982-117A



Kosmos-1424 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1982 Dec 16  1000 Launch by Soyuz  Baikonur 
 1008  Blok-I sep 
1982 Dec 16    89.73 172x351x64.9 
1982 Dec 22    89.30 172x308x64.9 from 89.25 165x311 
1982 Dec 25    89.67 168x349x64.9 from 88.94 166x279 
1982 Dec 29   SpK-1 fid 
1982 Dec 30    89.59 163x346x64.9 from 89.35 162x323 
1983 Jan 5    89.56 173x333x64.9 from 88.97 154x293 
1983 Jan 11    89.60 168x342x64.9 from 88.68 162x257 
1983 Jan 13   SpK-2 fid 
1983 Jan 24   88.83 165x269x64.9 
1983 Jan 28   
 2112?  Deorbit 
 2128? Entry 
 2140? Landed

Tuesday, March 5, 2002

Progress 13

 1982-047A


The first cargo ferry launched to Salyut-7 was 11F615A15 No. 114 (7K-TG No. 114), announced as Progress-13. 


Progress-13 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1982 May 23  0556:41  Launch by Soyuz-U  KB 
 0605  Blok-I MECO 
 0610   88.99 186 x 263 x 51.6 
 1430   90.85 286 x 347 x 51.6 
1982 May 24  0930   90.90 291 x 347 x 51.6 
1982 May 25  0756:36  Docked with Salyut-7 
1982 May 26    91.35 338 x 344 x 51.6 
1982 Jun 4  0631  Undocked 
1982 Jun 5    90.75 307 x 316 x 51.6 
 0500   90.62 304 x 307 x 51.6 
 0930   89.03 214 x 240 x 51.6 
 1200   89.02 215 x 238 x 51.6 
1982 Jun 6  0005  Deorbited over Pacific 

Globalstar 2

 1998-023A


Second launch of four sats on Delta 256.


Globalstar FM14 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1998 Apr 24  2238:34  Launch by Delta 7420-10  CC LC17A 
 2239  T+1:03 SRM 1-4 burnout 
 2239  T+1:06,1:07 SRM 1-2, 3-4 sep 
 2242  T+4:24 MECO 
 2243  T+4:32 St 1 sep 
 2243  T+4:37 St 2 burn 
 2243  T+4:47 Fairing sep
 2249  T+11:22 SECO 1  185 x 1241 x 52.0 
 2339  T+1:01:14 Stage 2 burn 2  
 2340  T+1:01:3 SECO-2  1247 x 1247 x 52.0 
 2346  T+1:08:20 FM5,6 sep 
 2350  T+1:12:30 FM7.8 sep 
  SECO-3 sep 
1998 Apr 25 0033:34  SECO-4 depletion 
1998 May 11    111.61 1273 x 1327 x 52.0 
1998 May 22    114.09 1389 x 1438 x 52.0 
1998 Jun 16    114.08 1398 x 1428 x 52.0 
1998 Nov 16    114.08 1411 x 1415 x 52.0 
2001 Sep 26    114.08 1412 x 1414 x 52.0

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