Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Cosmos 1

 2005-F02


Orbital launch Volna late 2001. Built by NPOL/Babakin. 850 x 850 km orbit. 8 blades, 600 m2 aluminized mylar.

Mass 103 kg on orbit (23 kg sail) with 8 15-m petals, spanning 30m. Petals are 5 micron aluminized Mylar polyethlteraphtalate, inflated with nitrogen. Expected solar thrust is 5mN.

Has nosecone: blunt cone 1.1d 1.75l TPS Apogee motor 0.42d 0.50?l Isaev liquid engine UDMH/N2O4, 240s burn giving 0.9?km/s.

S/C 1.1l 1.1d cone-cylinder-cone (two cones connected by small cylinder); deployed 28.8d with 8 blades.

Control from Babakin/Moskva.


Cosmos sail 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2005 Jun 21  1946:09  Volna launch from Borisoglebsk 
  Stage 1 sep 
  Stage 2 sep 
  Stage 3 burn 
 1952:27 T+6:18 Stage 3 sep  -2000? x 765 x 80  
  T+15 min telemetry starts 
 2005:22 T+19:13 Apogee engine burn 
  AKM sep  832 x 840 x 78.6  
  Plume shield sep (planned) 
  Spinup to 95 rpm (planned) 
  Solar sail deploy(planned) 
 2007 T+21 min loss of telemetry 
  Spindown 
 2019? Reentry? 

Payload:

  • 8-bladed solar sail

  • UHF, S-band radio systems

  • Advanced Pixel Sensor CMOS camera

  • CCD rotating Matrix camera (Mars-96 model)

  • Microaccelerometers

  • Charged particle environment monitor

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