Saturday, February 18, 2006

Soyuz TM-30

 2000-018A


The EO-28 crew, Sergey V. Zalyotin and Aleksandr Kaleri, flew the first 200-series Soyuz to Mir. 11F732 No 204 was originally assigned to ISS.


Soyuz TM-30 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2000 Apr 4  0501:29  Launch by Soyuz-U  KB LC1 
 0503  boosters sep 
 0504  Fairing sep
 0506  Blok A sep 
 0510  Blok I MECO 
 0510:18  Blok I sep192 x 239 x 51.7 (NK) 
 0850:58  TCM-1 57s 
 0935:21  TCM-2 29s 257 x 259 x 51.6 
2000 Apr 5  0614:58  TCM-3 1s 

  89.67 257 x 259 x 51. 
2000 Apr 6  0619:50  At 167m 

0627 To manual control at 40m 
 0631:22 Dock with Mir -X  329 x 333 x 51.6 
 0805:14 Crew entry 
2000 Apr 28    91.12 327 x 331 x 51.7 
2000 May 22   91.98 362 x 380 x 51.7 
2000 Jun 15  1817  Hatch closed 

2124:50  Undocked  
 2352:33  Deorbit  
 2356  Deorbit MECO 
2000 Jun 16  0017?  BO, SA sep 
 0020?  Reentered 
 0043:45  Landed 

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Kosmos 699

  1974-103A


Kosmos 699 disintegrated on 1975 Apr 17,after a successful mission that inaugurated the US-P series.


Kosmos-699 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1974 Dec 24  1100:00 Launch by Tsiklon 2 from Baikonur 
 1102 Stage 1 sep 
 1104 Stage 2 sep  
 1148? AKM burn 
1974 Dec 24   89.8 114x418x65.0 
1974 Dec 24    93.29 427 x 443 x 65.0 
1974 Dec 26    93.32 430 x 443 x 65.0 
1975 Jan 11    93.28 428 x 441 x 65.0 
1975 Mar 7  Inactive? 
1975 Mar 16    93.28 427 x 444 x 65.0 
1975 Apr 17  end of ops 
1975 Apr 17    93.25 424 x 443 x 65.0 
1975 Apr 17 2148 Exploded, 437 km over 3N 83W into 50 pieces 
1975 Apr 28    93.22 421 x 442 x 65.0 
1977 Jul 26    91.38 331 x 353 x 65.0 
1977 Oct 12    89.43 237 x 255 x 65.0 

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

MTI

 2000-014A


MTI is the Multispectral Thermal Imager, P97-3. MTI will demonstrate multispectral and thermal imaging technology for both military and civilian applications, mainly to study applications for treaty monitoring. MTI carries a piggyback experiment, the HXRS sensor to give advance warning of hard X-ray solar events. Mass is 597 kg. Size is 2.5m h 1.22m dia and 4.1m span. Launch by Taurus in late 1999. Sponsor is the DoE Office of Nonproliferation and National Security. MTI was shipped to Sandia SNL/Albequerque in Jul 1999. Sandia integrated the satellite using a bus designed in collaboration with Ball.

Control from Albequerque.

Launch by AF Taurus 1110 with 63 inch fairing.


MTI 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2000 Mar 12  0929  Launch by Taurus  V 576E 
  T+1:00 St 1 sep, St 2 start 
  T+2:25 St 2 sep 
  T+2:27 St 3 burn 
  T+2:32 Fairing sep
  T+3:49 St 3 burnout 
  T+8:51 St 3 sep 
  T+9:02 St 4 burn 
 0939 T+10:17 St 4 burnout 
 0941 T+12:12 MTI sep 
 0955? St 3 impact POR 
2000 Jun 14   Begin operational mission 
2003 Mar   HXRS failed 
2004 Jul S/C still operational 

Payload:

  • 0.36m offaxis telescope with visible imager, 15 bands

  • Thermal IR imager

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