Saturday, February 12, 2005

Kosmos 1174

 1980-030A


According to Sven Grahn, Kosmos-1174 made three attempts to intercept Kosmos-1171 and was then detonated. Nick Johnson's analysis puts the explosion after the first attempt, implying the second two close passes were coincidental.


Kosmos-1174 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1980 Apr 18  0051 Launch by 11K69  KB 
 
 0053  Stage 2 burn 
 0056  Stage 2 MECO 140x432x65.2 
1980 Apr 18  0150? burn (JCM estimate) 
1980 Apr 18 0212? burn (SG estimate) 362x1025x65.83 
1980 Apr 18 0416 Intercepted K1171 at rev 2 apogee, range 18km 
1980 Apr 18 0625 mv  380 x 1661 x 66.11 
  550 km from K1167 
 0726  explosion at 1600 km (NLJ report) 
1980 Apr 18 2204 Intercepted K1171, 33km range 
1980 Apr 19 0035 small mv  105.54 380 x 1659 x 66.13 
 
1980 Apr 19 1257 Intercepted K1171, 31 km range, over Easter I 
1980 Apr 20  Exploded (SG estimate) 

No comments:

Post a Comment

These Are Not My Beautiful Stories

  Summary: The chapters within are outlines for both future stories I’ve got planned (in the case that I never get around to writing them) a...