Hexagon 2

 1972-002A

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Mission 1202, the second HEXAGON or Big Bird, was launched in Jan 1972 to carry out a survey of Soviet strategic forces. It carried out orbit raising burns every few days until Feb 18, after which it steadily decayed until deorbit on Feb 28. The film broke in one camera during the RV-3 phase so RV-3 and RV-4 returned only monochromatic rather than stereo imaging.

HEXAGON 2
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1972 Jan 20	1836	Launch by Titan IIID	V SLC4E
		T+1:53 Stage 1 burn 2:27
		T+2:05 SRM burnout
		T+2:05 SRM sep
		T+4:22 Stage 1 MECO
		T+4:22 Stage 2 burn
		T+4:23 Stage 1 sep
		T+4:36 Fairing
		T+7:40 Stage 2 MECO
	1844	T+7:52 Stage 2 sep
		Deploy solar arrays
	1934		89.36 156 x 329 x 97.0
1972 Jan 21	0729		89.35 155 x 329 x 97.0
1972 Jan 22	0420		89.28 152 x 325 x 97.0
		Orbit raise
	1914		89.37 154 x 333 x 97.0
1972 Jan 23	2332		89.29 150 x 328 x 97.0
		Orbit raise
1972 Jan 24	2024		89.39 149 x 339 x 97.0
1972 Jan 26	2035?	SRV-1 recovered
1972 Jan 27	0459		89.19 147 x 321 x 97.0
		Orbit raise
	1953		89.45 151 x 343 x 97.0
1972 Jan 30	0730		89.33 148 x 333 x 97.0
		Orbit raise
1972 Jan 31	1914		89.40 147 x 342 x 97.0
1972 Feb 2	0958		89.27 147 x 328 x 97.0
		Orbit raise
	2025		89.51 155 x 345 x 97.0
1972 Feb 3	2314		89.29 149 x 328 x 97.0
		Orbit raise
1972 Feb 4	1835		89.42 148 x 343 x 96.9
1972 Feb 8	2218		89.05 146 x 309 x 97.0
		Orbit raise
1972 Feb 8	2123?	SRV-2 recovered
1972 Feb 9	0246		89.14 147 x 316 x 97.0
1972 Feb 10	0958		89.03 148 x 304 x 97.0
		Orbit raise
1972 Feb 10	2024		89.45 148 x 346 x 97.0
1972 Feb 14	0452		89.24 148 x 325 x 97.0
		Orbit raise
	1815		89.35 150 x 334 x 96.9
		Orbit tweak
1972 Feb 15	0013		89.40 151 x 337 x 97.0
		Orbit tweak
1972 Feb 16	2054		89.41 152 x 337 x 97.0
1972 Feb 17		SRV-3 recovered
1972 Feb 18	0412		89.28 149 x 327 x 97.0
		Orbit raise
	1906		89.57 165 x 341 x 96.9
1972 Feb 21	1414		89.35 161 x 323 x 96.9
1972 Feb 24	1341		89.11 159 x 301 x 96.9
1972 Feb 27	0400		88.83 155 x 278 x 96.9
1972 Feb 28	1401		88.54 148 x 255 x 96.9
1972 Feb 28		SRV-4 recovered
1972 Feb 28		Main propellant supply depleted
1972 Feb 29	2110?	AACS system deboost
1972 Feb 29	2135?	Reentered after 40d

Kosmos 2399

 2003-035A

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Kosmos-2399 was quickly identified as a new Don satellite. In Nov 2003, five objects were cataloged in orbit from the launch.

Kosmos-2399
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2003 Aug 12	1420	Launch by Soyuz-U	KB
	1424	Blok-A sep
	1429	Blok-I MECO
	1429	Blok-I sep	89.33 170 x 311 x 64.95
2003 Aug 13		Orbit raise	89.81 172 x 356 x 64.9
2003 Aug 14		Orbit raise	89.87 205 x 330 x 64.9
2003 Aug 20			89.68 201 x 314 x 64.9
2003 Aug 27			89.38 196 x 291 x 64.9
2003 Aug 28		Orbit raise	89.94 205 x 337 x 64.9
2003 Sep 10			89.47 195 x 300 x 64.93
2003 Sep 11		Orbit raise	90.10 195 x 363 x 64.9
2003 Sep 30			89.17 179 x 287 x 64.9
2003 Oct 3		Orbit raise	89.94 205 x 337 x 64.9
2003 Oct 24			88.94 184 x 260 x 64.9
2003 Oct 26		Orbit raise	90.36 218 x 365 x 64.9
2003 Nov 17			89.64 203 x 309 x 64.9
2003 Nov 19?		C-G released
2003 Nov 19		35E	89.47 200 x 295 x 64.9
2003 Nov 20			89.51 199 x 300 x 64.9
2003 Nov 21		Orbit raise	89.84 199 x 334 x 64.9
2003 Nov 28			89.50 192 x 307 x 64.9

Seventeen: December 2005

 https://welib.org/md5/8595ae6c557b720fdaa69e552f05a0d8

Spaceflight: February 2006

 https://welib.org/md5/de2a9befd295e9a81c278307d60dbc7c

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Space Missions

 https://welib.org/md5/aa48e3e514ed3eac9c30e5dc44ccad78

Koreasat 1

 1995-041A

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Korea Telecom's Mugunghwa-Ho (Koreasat 1) satellite was launched in Aug 1995. One of the Hercules GEM solid rocket motors failed to separate properly from the first stage, causing the first burn of stage 2 to run 35 seconds long. The second stage 2 burn was nominal, although the third burn was only 10s instead of 44s due to fuel depletion. The PAM-D third stage fired to place Mugunghwa in a geostationary transfer orbit, but the result of the earlier failure was that the apogee was 7000 km lower than planned.

Mugunghwa-Ho
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1995 Aug 5	1110:00	Launch by Delta 7925 (228)	CC LC17B
	1111	GEM x 3 ignite (T+1:06)
	1111	GEM x 6 sep (T+1:06, alt 18 km)
	1112	GEM x 2 sep (T+2:11, alt 53 km)
	1112	GEM motor no. 6 fails to separate
	1114	Stage 1 MECO (T+4:20, alt 109 km)
	1114	Stage 1 sep (T+4:30)
	1114	Stage 2 burn 1 (T+4:34, 117 km)
	1114	Fairing sep (T+4:58, 129 km)
	1120	Stage 2 MECO (T+10:35, 173 km, 35s late), orbit
	1135	Stage 2 burn 2 (T+25:20, 161 km)
	1136	Stage 2 burn 2 MECO after 43s
	1221	Stage 2 burn 3 (T+1:11:33)
	1221	Stage 2 burn 3 depletion, 10s
		Stage 2 sep	108.5 938 x 1373 x 26.7
	1223	PAM-D burn, 88s
	1226	PAM-D sep	532.3 1371 x 29388 x 20.6
	1245	Stage 2 depletion due, failed
1995 Aug 10	1158	Star 30 burn	1074.12 26911 x 29817 x 0.2
1995 Aug 18			1120.0 27961 x 30731 x 0.2
1995 Aug 18			1178.01 29285 x 31854 x 0.2
1995 Aug 19			1274.18 31711 x 33397 x 0.1
1995 Aug 22		LAM burn
1995 Aug 24			1351.27 33216 x 35002 x 0.1
1995 Aug 25	0900?	LAM burn
1995 Aug 27			1406.11 34075 x 36319 x 1.1 GEO 120.0E+7.7E
1995 Aug 29			1438.75 35791 x 35885 x 0.1 GEO 116.2E+0.6W
1995 Sep 5			1436.05 35777 x 35793 x 0.1 GEO 116.0E
1995 Sep 11			GEO 116.0E
1997 Oct 22			1436.13 35778 x 35796 x 0.1 GEO 116.0E
1999 Oct 15			1436.14 35780 x 35794 x 0.0 GEO 116.0E
2000 May 23			1436.11 35755 x 35818 x 0.0 GEO 116.0E
2000 Jul		Leased to Europestar
2000 Aug		Move to 45E; named EuropeStar-B
2004 Dec 12			1436.11 35781 x 35792 x 5.8 GEO 47.3E

Chinasat 6

 1997-021A

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A DFH-3 (Dongfanghong 3) satellite was launched on 1997 May 11. The DFH-3-A2 satellite was also referred to as Zhongxing No. 6. It was stationed at 125E at least until February 2004.

DFH-3
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1997 May 11	1617	Launch by CZ-3A	XSC LC2
		T+2:25 Stage 1 MECO
		T+2:27 Stage 2 MES, Stage 1 sep
		T+3:52 Fairing
		T+4:15 St 2 MECO
		T+4:20 St 2 VECO
		T+4:21 St 2 sep, St 3 MES
	1627	T+10:19 St 3 MECO-1
	1637	T+20:00 St 3 MES-2
	1639	T+22:00 St 3 MECO-2
	1640	T+23:40 Stage 3 sep
1997 May 11			633.12 203 x 35888 x 28.5
1997 May 12	0830?	LAM1
1997 May 12			765.87 6782 x 35919 x 12.1
1997 May 13	0959?	LAM2	1342.40 31866 x 35998 x 0.6
1997 May 14	0830?	LAM3
1997 May 14			1410.05 34613 x 35936 x 0.1 GEO 105.5E+6.6E
1997 May 17			1434.72 35661 x 35857 x 0.3 GEO 124.5E+0.3E
1997 May 20			1435.40 35758 x 35787 x 0.3 GEO 125.0E+0.1E
1997 May 30			1436.12 35784 x 35789 x 0.3 GEO 125.1E
1999 Oct 17			1436.13 35773 x 35800 x 0.2 GEO 125.1E
2004 Feb 14			1436.13 35774 x 35800 x 0.1 GEO 125.0E

Expedition Mars

 https://welib.org/md5/bb8cf5121c8e1d584c28d0d61090b844

Understanding Space : An Introduction to Astronautics

 https://welib.org/md5/11bb1dfcac538ec7522e3d23c7a50b04

Palm Bitch

https://welib.org/md5/f0bb244e22a34d68d5dfa1afb64f8a8d

Kosmos 587

  1973-066A

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Kosmos-587 was launched in Sep 1973, the first Zenit-4MK mission in four months and the second test flight of the Soyuz-U rocket. The satellite landed after a 13 day flight, with a TF recovery beacon detected by the Kettering Group.

Kosmos-587
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1973 Sep 21	1305:01	Launch by 11A511U	PL
	1309	Blok-I burn
	1313	Blok-I sep
	1849		89.55 204 x 300 x 65.4
1973 Sep 22	1200		89.55 205 x 300 x 65.42 (RAE)
1973 Sep 26	0446		89.51 204 x 295 x 65.4
		Lower perigee
	0914		89.16 177 x 288 x 65.4
1973 Sep 26	1430		89.18 174 x 294 x 65.4
1973 Sep 29	1131		89.07 171 x 285 x 65.4
1973 Sep 30	1245		89.04 171 x 283 x 65.4
		Raise apogee
1973 Oct 1	0932		89.50 171 x 328 x 65.4
1973 Oct 2	1643		89.43 169 x 323 x 65.4
1973 Oct 3		Engine sep
1973 Oct 4	0604?	Retrofire
	0614?	PO sep
	0618?	Entry
	0632?	Landed

The Confederate Belle

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October 8,2004

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce

Aviation Week: February 20,2006

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