Haiyang 2

 2007-010A

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Haiyang 1B is an ocean color studies and tech demo satellite,mass 440 kg.

HY-1B
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2007 Apr 11	0327	CZ-2C	TYSC
	0338?	CZ-2C VECO
	0340?	Stage 2 sep
			100.84 783 x 813 x 98.6

Hinode

 2006-041A

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ISAS SOLAR-B was launched on the final M-5 in 2006. It was named Hinode ('Rising Sun') and carried optical and X-ray solar telescopes. The satellite involved NASA's participation under the Solar-Terrestrial Probe series of the Sun-Earth Connection theme, with an optical instrument package developed by Lockheed's Palo Alto solar group and an X-ray telescope developed by Lockheed and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The SOLAR-B satellite was built by MELCO.

The 0.5-meter SOT has a resolution of less than 0.1 arcsec across a few-arcmin field of view; the EIS and XRT reach 1 arcsecond with a much larger field 1/2 degree field of view.

The M-V-7 has a launch mass of 140t. It carried subsatellites HIT-SAT and SSSAT.

Hinode's Mass is 900 kg. Box + 2 panels, span is 10.3m. Size is 1.6m x 3.8m.

A - payload B - solid C - slow decay after 2 days D - rapid decay E - slow decay F - payload Gslow Hslow Jmed K

SOLAR B
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2006 Sep 22	2136	Launch by M-V-7	USC
		T+1:15 St 1 sep
		T+1:15 St 2 burn, 140 km
		T+3:06 Fairing sep
		T+3:20 St 2 sep
		T+3:22 St 3 nozzle extension
		T+3:25 St 3 burn
	2141	T+5:11 St 3 burnout, 300 km
		T+5:47 Begin reorientation
		T+6:40 End reorientation
	2144	T+8:30 Stage 3 sep
	2149	T+13:50 HIT-SAT sep
	2152	T+16:30 SSSAT sep
	2209	T+33:30 Solar panels deploy
2006 Sep 22			94.11 271 x 678 x 98.3
2006 Sep 25		TCM-1	94.54 318 x 674 x 98.3
2006 Sep 27		TCM-2	96.24 482 x 674 x 98.3
2006 Oct 2		TCM-3	98.44 674 x 694 x 98.1
2006 Oct 23			98.45 674 x 695 x 98.1

Payload:

• SOT 0.5m solar optical telescope

• FPIP NASA/ Lockheed-Palo-Alto focal plane instrument package for optical telescope

  • BFI broadband filter imager

  • NFI narrowband filter imager

  • SP spectropolarimeter

• XRT Solar-B XR telescope for coronal studies. (Golub/SAO) 0.35m aperture single-shell Wolter II.

• EIS EUV imaging spectrometer

Corona SAR Test

  1964-087A

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The launch on Dec 21, 1964 was particularly mysterious. Its low orbit led previous analysts to lump it with the CORONA missions, but the orbit was not quite consistent with that assumption, and it was not included in the official list of 145 bona fide CORONA flights.

In 1995 Maj-Gen David Bradburn, former director of USAF Special Projects, reported at a USAF Space History conference that this launch was the first he was in charge of. Minutes before launch, a hold was called because of an approaching train on the line through Vandenberg. However, soon after it was reported that the train had been held up further up the line, and the go was given to resume the count. Washington got two messages in quick succession: `Holding for train' and `Launch!' - and Bradburn got a reputation as the man who launched over the train.

The Vandenberg launch report and launch photo confirm that one SRV was carried and that the orbit attained was close to the one planned. Bradburn stated that the spacecraft operated for four days and completed its mission successfully. He hinted that a couple of further vehicles in the series were cancelled as unneccessary.

The launch was carried out under Program 698BK, which also included the Ferret and NRL multiple launches.

So what was FTV 2355? Clearly it was an experimental rather than an operational mission. The following possibilities came to mind:

• An NSA electronic intelligence mission to characterize some kind of radio frequency interference or propagation problem. The altitude seems a little low for this, and the recoverable capsule argues against it.

• A test of an improved camera for a non-CORONA program, such as KH-7.

• A USAF Program 461 radiometric mission, to provide infrared radiometry data for MIDAS early warning satellites. This was one of the most likely options, but the declassified SAMSO histories of MIDAS do not mention such a mission.

The fact that FTV 2355 was flown under Program 698BK and not Program 241 suggested to me that this was a USAF-sponsored mission rather than a CIA one.

Dwayne Day solved the problem, finding out that the mission was codenamed QUILL and was a test of an active radar (SAR, synthetic aperture radar), based on work done by the University of Michigan's Environmental Research Institute.

The radar data were recorded on tape and returned to Earth via the SRV. The mission was managed by the Air Force (NRO Program A). It was also known as P-40 (possibly Program 40).

In 2012 the program was declassified. It was also known as P-40. The KP-II SAR unit was a modified version of Goodyear's AN/UPQ-102 aircraft-borne pulsed Doppler system with a 0.06 x 0.6 x 4.6m 9.6 GHz SAR antenna flush with the Agena body. The battery powered system was planned for a 4 day mission, and the radar operated on 14 passes over the US (NRO was worried that operating an active radar over the USSR would alert the Soviets). The data was both written to tape for recovery and sent on a UHF data link during ground station pases. The data reached 2.3 meter resolution. QUILL used a Mark VA recovery vehicle, S/N 588, with a TE-236A retro. The TE-236A has a mass of 28 kg full 10 kg dry with an Isp of 260s, burn time of 10s, and DeltaV of 381 m/s.

The first part of the Hawaii pass data with recovery timeline on LMSC Vol 3, page 4-12 appears to be in error by 1000 seconds (separation at 72356s) versus the timeline of page 7-5 (separation at 73356s) which seems to match the orbital data much better.

On insertion Agena 2355 yawed 180 deg to fly tail first. The 126 kg difference between MECO and 'On Orbit' is presumably post-MECO vernier adjustments.

The payload was commanded via the Vandenberg (VTS) and New Hampshire (NHS) tracking stations. Sunnyvale controlled the spacecraft.

FTV 2355
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1964 Dec 21	1908:56	Thor SLV-2A Agena D	V 75-1 Pad 1
	1910:01	Castor sep (T+1:05)
	1911:26	Thor MECO (T+2:30)
	1911:35	Thor VECO (T+2:39)
	1911?	SAR fairing separation
	1911:43	Thor sep (T+2:47)
	1912:07	Agena burn (T+3:11)
	1916:08	Agena MECO (T+7:12)	89.56 244 x 293 x 70.11 (VCR)
	2306		89.54 226 x 277 x 70.1
1964 Dec 22	0644	First radar operation
1964 Dec 22	2259		89.51 236 x 263 x 70.1
1964 Dec 23		Rev 33 , ejected and recovered
	2005	Over 76E 48N northbound
	2019?	Pitch down
	2022	Over 160W 52N southbound
	2022:36	SRV sep
		S+10s Retro burn ignition
		S+20s Retro burn complete
		S+21s despin
	2022:58	S+22s T/C sep
	2024:11	Voltage Monitor Closed
		Entry
	2031:49	G-switch open
	2032:24	Forebody sep
	2032:35	S+10min Chute
	2052:33	Aircraft look-see pass
	2055:55	S+33:19? Recovery - MAR 23 38N 143 45W
	2103:24	SRV on aircraft
1964 Dec 24	1516		89.51 231 x 268 x 70.1
1964 Dec 25	0230		89.5 238 x 264 x 70.08 (RAE)
1964 Dec 26	0618	Last radar pass
		Battery failed on orbit 72-73
1964 Dec 26		End of operations
1965 Jan 6	2014		88.81 208 x 222 x 70.1
1965 Jan 10	0822		88.15 170 x 194 x 70.1
1965 Jan 11	1027	Reentered after 21.6d, rev 335,  over S Atlantic

Kosmos 2345

 1997-041A

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The Kosmos-2345 satellite was launched in Aug 1997. The Proton-K reached a 53 degree parking orbit instead of the usual 51.6 degree one because of a launch crew targeting error. This led to a 50 degree transfer orbit instead of a 46 degree one, and a final elliptical geosynchronous orbit of 34941 x 37747 km instead of a circular one of 35805 x 35917 km. The DM first burn appears to have been on the fifth orbit.

Kosmos-2345 was an Oko-S class satellite, Initial position is 14W with drift to 24W. Space Command seems to have had problems tracking the satellite, with element sets oscillating between an object at 23W and an object at 27W. After early 1999 it tracked an object drifting slowly away from the 25W position, which may or may not have been K-2345.

Kosmos-2345
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1997 Aug 14	2049:14	Launch by Proton-K	KB
	2058	Stage 3 sep
			164 x 190 x 53.2
1997 Aug 14	0400?	Blok DM-2 burn 1
1997 Aug 15			621.85 227 x 35282 x 49.9 (TLE)
	0900?	DM2 burn 2
	0920?	DM2 sep
1997 Aug 17	1400		1433.95 35737 x 35752 x 0.09 GEO 1.4W+0.5/d
	1745		1433.91 35736 x 35750 x 0.09 GEO 1.3W+0.5/d
1997 Aug 20			1433.88 35736 x 35749 x 0.1 GEO 0.0W+0.5E
1997 Aug 21			1438.87 34316 x 37365 x 1.3 GEO 16.6W+0.7W
1997 Aug 29		1436.96 34298 x 37273 x 1.3 GEO 22.1W
1997 Sep 17		mv out
1997 Oct 1		mv in	1436.07 35021 x 36550 x 1.2 GEO 26.3W
1997 Oct 6			1436.06 35021 x 36550 x 1.2 GEO 25.7W
1997 Dec 1			1436.23 35033 x 36544 x 1.1 GEO 26.9W
1998 May 20			1436.00 35040 x 36529 x 0.8 GEO 23.4W
1998 Jun 28			1436.16 35041 x 36534 x 0.7 GEO 22.7W
1999 Jan 27			1436.22 35070 x 36507 x 0.3 GEO 23.4W+0.05W
1999 Jan 30		mv out, drift
1999 Apr 23			1435.82 35075 x 36487 x 0.1 GEO 20.0W
1999 Oct 16			1435.89 35070 x 36494 x 0.3 GEO 10.6W+0.04E
2002 Aug 29			1437.91 35132 x 36511 x 2.7 GEO 62.5E+0.5W

SJ-8

 2006-035A

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"Seed satellite" (shijian baohao yuzhong weixing). carried 215 kilograms of seeds of vegetables, fruits, grains and cotton.

Based on FSW. Launch 2006 Sep 9; landed in Sichuan province Sep 24.

SJ-8
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2006 Sep 9	0700	Launch by CZ-2C	JQ
		Stage 2 burn
	0710?	Stage 2 MECO
		Stage 2 sep	177 x 445 x 63.0
2006 Sep 24	0223?	Deorbit
2006 Sep 24	0243	Landed

DSP-18

 1997-008A

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The DSP 18 satellite was launched by the first Titan 4B in Feb 1997. The Titan 4B placed the IUS/DSP combination in a 185 x 759 km parking orbit, a much higher apogee than earlier launches. The two stage IUS then carried the DSP to geostationary orbit. The craft was stationed at the Indian Ocean position until the end of 2001 when it was moved to a reserve position.

DSP 18
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1997 Feb 23	2020	Launch by Titan 4B	CC LC40
	2022	Core ignition T+130s
	2022	SRM sep at T+143s
	2025	Stage 2 ig. T+320s
		PLF sep
	2028	Stage 2 cutoff T+8:45
	2028	Stage 2 sep	94.0 185 x 759 x 28.6 (UN)
	2137?	IUS SRM-1
1997 Feb 24	0240?	IUS SRM-2
1997 Feb 24	0300?	DSP sep from SRM-2
1997 Feb 25?		Cover sep	35231 x 36767 x 1.43 (UN)
1997 Jul		GEO 70E
1999 Jan			GEO 70E
2001 Nov		mv out	GEO 70E
2002 Feb?		mv in	GEO 104E
2003 Mar			GEO 104E
2003 Nov			GEO 103E

Kosmos 2343

 1997-024A

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This was the 250th launch of the Soyuz-U from Baikonur. Kosmos-2343 reentered on Sep 18 after 126 days. The capsule recovery dates are not publicly available: in the satellite database, I use fiducial dates of May 31, Jun 15, Jun 30, Jul 12, Jul 28, Aug 12, Aug 26, Sep 16 and a fiducial deorbit burn of 225 m/s.

Kosmos-2343
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1997 May 15	1210:00	Launch by Soyuz-U	KB LC31
	1214	Blok-A sep
	1219	Blok-I sep
	1230		89.39 196 x 292 x 64.9
	1500		89.44 169 x 324 x 64.9
1997 May 16	0400		89.38 170 x 316 x 64.9
1997 May 19	0200		89.80 205 x 323 x 64.9
1997 May 23	0200		89.73 204 x 317 x 64.9
1997 May 28			89.61 202 x 307 x 64.9
1997 May 28		Orbit raise	89.97 202 x 343 x 64.9
1997 Jun 4			89.81 200 x 329 x 64.9
1997 Jun 4		Orbit raise	90.04 216 x 336 x 64.9
1997 Jul 13			89.317 201 x 279 x 64.9
1997 Jul 13		Orbit raise	89.95 207 x 336 x 64.9
1997 Jul 14		Orbit raise	89.97 204 x 340 x 64.9
1997 Aug 5			89.48 196 x 300 x 64.9
1997 Aug 6		Orbit raise	89.79 210 x 317 x 64.9
1997 Aug 12			89.67 208 x 307 x 64.9
1997 Aug 13		Orbit raise	89.97 210 x 335 x 64.9
1997 Aug 21			89.80 203 x 325 x 64.9
1997 Aug 22		Orbit raise	90.18 243 x 323 x 64.9
1997 Aug 26			90.16 243 x 320 x 64.9
		Orbit lower	89.98 230 x 315 x 64.9
1997 Sep 8			89.78 227 x 299 x 64.9
1997 Sep 18			88.48 181 x 216 x 64.8
1997 Sep 22		Deorbited

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