Tuesday, August 3, 2004

Soyuz 9

  1970-041A


The Soyuz-9 mission, which used spacecraft 7K-OK No. 17, was a transition mission between the lunar and Salyut phases of the Soyuz program. Andrian Nikolaev and Vitaliy Sevastyanov spent a record 18 days in space. The BO carried a thermal control system prototype for DOS/Almaz.

Sevastyanov said in 2001 that three 0.5-meter target subsatellites were ejected from the BO and tracked optically in support of an Almaz-related space defense experiment. 


Soyuz-9 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1970 Jun 1  1900:00  Launch by Soyuz  KB 
  T+1:55 SAS sep 
  T+1:58 Blok BVGD sep 
  T+2:45 Fairing 
  T+4:48 Blok A sep 
  T+4:48 St 3 MES 
 1908:50  T+8:50 St 3 MECO 
 1909?  St 3 sep 
 2315   88.53 176 x 228 x 51.64 
1970 Jun 2   3 subsats ejected 
 0043  Ascending node at apogee 
 0044  Begin rev 5? 
1970 Jun 2  0105?  Burn on rev 5 
 0212  End of rev 5
 0300  End of working day
 0330   88.59 180 x 225 x 51.64
  
1970 Jun 3  1230   89.54 244 x 260 x 51.68 
1970 Jun 16    89.05 222 x 234 x 51.68 
 0930  Orbit lower  88.78 210 x 219 x 51.68 
 1645   88.75 199 x 226 x 51.68 
1970 Jun 18  1915   88.44 196 x 200 x 51.67 
1970 Jun 19 1052  Prep for retrofire 
1970 Jun 19  1117:30 Retrofire 145s, 0.15 km/s 
 1119:55  DO CO 
 1132? Modules sep 
 1140?  Entry 
 1144  Parachute deployment 
 1158:55  Landed 75 km W of Karaganda 

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