Thursday, May 22, 2003

Kosmos 969

 1977-120A


At recovery, the usual two debris objects (probably the engine and sunshade) were cataloged, together with two other objects (E and F) for which no TLEs are available. Reentry dates for E and F show a two month lifetime to March 5 - but I suspect these dates are 'administrative' and spurious.


Kosmos-969 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1977 Dec 20  1550 Launch by Soyuz-U  Plesetsk 
 1554 Blok-I burn 
 1558  Blok-I sep 
1977 Dec 20    89.47 179 x 317 x 62.8 
1977 Dec 22    89.46 179 x 316 x 62.8 
1977 Dec 23   
89.20 164 x 304 x 62.8 
1977 Dec 29    89.00 162 x 288 x 62.8 
1977 Dec 30   
89.74 162 x 361 x 62.8 
1978 Jan 1    89.70 161 x 357 x 62.8 
1978 Jan 3   
 0539? Deorbit 
 0549? PO sep 
 0553? Entry 
 0610? Landed 

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