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