Wednesday, June 5, 2002

Ikonos

 1999-051A


Mass 726 kg. Built by LM/Sunnyvale using LM900 bus. Ikonos had 1-m resolution at 13 km swath. Launched to 10:30am descending node SSO. Ikonos was the first of the high res commercial imaging satellites to reach orbit and operate.

A piece of debris separated on 2001 Mar 19 and reentered rapidly.

OAM mass 650f?; Orbus 21 10600 f 865 em so m1/m2 = 11976 / 2241


Ikonos 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1999 Sep 24  1821:08 Launch by Athena 2 LM-7  V SLC6 
  T+1:24 St 1 burnout 
  T+1:25 St 2 burn 18 km  -6300 x 20 ? 
  T+2:53 St 2 burn out  -5600 x 180 ? 
  T+4:27 Fairing  -5600 x 180 ?  
  T+4:32 St 2 sep 
 1825:40 T+4:32 St 3 burn at 179 km  
 1828:11 T+7:03 St 3 burnout 
 1828:12  T+7:04 St 3 sep 90.92 207 x 431 x 98.2 (B) 
 
 1828:17 T+7:09 St 4 burn 162s   
 1830:59 T+9:51 St 4 MECO  93.69 220 x 689 x 98.2 (est) 
 1912:35 T+51:27 St 4 burn 2 386s 
 1919:01 T+57:53 St 4 MECO-2 
 1919:15  T+58:07 St 4 sep  98.36 678 x 682 x 98.1 
 1924 T+1:03:08 St 4 avoidance 
 1928 T+1:07:26 St 4 MECO-3  92.24 137 x 630 x 97.7 (C) 
   98.36 678 x 682 x 98.1 

Seventeen: February 2002

 https://welib.org/md5/51d594b0308052f3a53551e0670afb81

Aviation Week: February 11,2002

 https://welib.org/md5/d9c5af865ab96342cec2ef3e0c6e9e11

Kosmos 786

  1975-120A


Kosmos 786 carried a TG beacon and a supplementary experiment to analyze solar radiation flux in Earth orbit: unlike with most Zenit supplementary experiments this mission did not carry a separate Nauka capsule.


Kosmos-786 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1975 Dec 16  0950 Launch by Soyuz-U  Baikonur 
 0954 Blok-I burn 
 0958 Blok-I sep 
1975 Dec 16    89.50 171 x 328 x 65.0 
1975 Dec 23    89.39 172 x 316 x 65.0 
1975 Dec 24   
89.23 171 x 301 x 65.0 
1975 Dec 27   Engine sep 
1975 Dec 29    89.11 169 x 291 x 65.0 
1975 Dec 29   
 0553? Deorbit 
 0603? PO sep 
 0607? Entry 
 0624? Landed 

Spaceflight: January 2002

 https://welib.org/md5/cae7197ec560cd63fccbd202be68930a

Who’s Who in Space

https://welib.org/md5/ed6742d8b64e05d80dc6f4a9de25c427

Merlin and the Grail: Joseph of Arimathea, Merlin, Perceval: The Trilogy of Arthurian Prose Romances attributed to Robert de Boron

 https://welib.org/md5/2f3c626743db1cfee941ccaffe6a6a6c

Tuesday, June 4, 2002

Navstar 44

 2000-040A


GPS 2R-5 was launched to Plane B, Slot 5; it was eventually placed in slot B3.


GPS 44 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2000 Jul 16  0917:00  Launch by Delta 7925  CC LC17A 
 0918  SRM 1-6 sep 
 0918  SRM 7-9 burn 
 0919  SRM 7-9 sep 
  T+4:27 MECO 
 0921  T+4:36 Thor sep 
 0921  T+4:47 SES-1 
 0922  T+4:57 Fairing sep
 0928  T+10:59 SECO-1  151 x 337 x 36.9  
 0937  T+20:00 SES-2 
  T+20:37 SECO-2 
 0938  T+21:30 St 2 sep  200? x 1250? x 37.0 
 0938  T+21:30 TES 
 0940  T+23:32 TECO 
 0942  T+25:27 St 3 sep
2000 Jul 16    357.84 165 x 20461 x 39.1 
2000 Jul 19  1223 AKM  
2000 Jul 31    732.00 20184 x 20427 x 55.1 
2000 Aug 2    732.00 20185 x 20426 x 55.1 
2000 Sep 2    717.94 20037 x 20325 x 55.1 

May 13,2026

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