USA-146

 1999-063A

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HS-601 satellite with third GBS payload, 4 130W Ka-band transponders. Size 6.7m x 3.4m with 26m span.Launch mass 3205 kg. 14' fairing.

UHF 10
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1999 Nov 23	0406	Launch by Atlas 2A (AC-136)	CC SLC36B
		T+2:45 BECO
		T+2:48 Booster sep
		T+04:34 SECO
		T+04:36 Atlas sep
	0410	T+04:53 MES 1
	0415	T+09:53 MECO1	168 x 1090? x 28.9
	0428	T+22:23 MES2
	0429	T+23:36 MECO2
	0433	T+27:03 Centaur sep
		T+29:35 Centaur blowdown	287 x 26070 x 27.0
1999 Nov 23			455.83 286 x 26196 x 27.0
1999 Nov 24		LAM-1	537.27 285 x 30742 x 27.0
1999 Nov 25		LAM-2	649.74 266 x 36676 x 26.9
1999 Nov 26		LAM-3	789.86 7183 x 36669 x 14.9
1999 Nov 28			789.27 7154 x 36670 x 15.1
1999 Nov 28		LAM-4	1232.80 26728 x 36685 x 7.3
1999 Nov 29	0300?	LAM-5
1999 Nov 30			1432.24 34775 x 36646 x 6.0
1999 Dec 1			1435.88 34914 x 36650 x 6.0 GEO 173.2W+0.05E
1999 Dec 20			1436.09 34942 x 36630 x 6.0 GEO 174W
1999 Dec 30			1436.04 34943 x 36627 x 6.0 GEO 173.5W
2000 Jan		mv out
2000 Feb 14			1436.43 35777 x 35808 x 5.9 GEO 72.0E
2000 May 26			1435.98 35765 x 35803 x 5.7 GEO 72.5E
2003 Oct 19			1436.05 35769 x 35801 x 3.3 GEO 71.3E

Vision For Space: My Winding Journey Through Life and The Space Program

https://welib.org/md5/81cc49211138a01e74648eea439f2c41

Kosmos 2422

 2006-030A

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This was the first 73D6 US-KS satellite.

Kosmos-2422
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2006 Jul 21	0420	Launch by Molniya-M	PL LC16/2
	0429	Blok-I MECO
	0429	Blok I sep
	0510?	T+50m Blok L burn
	0513?	T+53m Blok L MECO
	0516:25	T+56m Blok-L sep
	0552	Transfer control to Titov center
2006 Jul 26			703.94 533 x 39135 x 62.9
2006 Jul 31		Orbit raise
2006 Aug 4			712.83 539 x 39570 x 62.9

Columbia’s Final Voyage

https://welib.org/md5/01ef73e78fb45e6131680daac51e6eaa

Seventeen: August 2006

 https://welib.org/md5/b339499b8271ab3cf84083bd637ab136

Kosmos 2423

 2006-039A

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The satellite was 17F12 No. 78051368. According to Stan Black, the number represents factory 780, production half-year 51, and 368 for the Don No. 8.

Kosmos-2423
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2006 Sep 14	1341	Launch by Soyuz-U	KB LC31
	1349	Blok-I sep
2006 Sep 14			89.39 167 x 320 x 64.9
2006 Sep 15	1100		89.34 170 x 313 x 64.9
2006 Sep 15	2100		89.91 207 x 332 x 65.0
2006 Sep 26	2026		89.54 206 x 297 x 64.9
2006 Oct 5	2027		89.31 201 x 279 x 64.9
2006 Oct 6	0424	Orbit raise	89.77 210 x 316 x 64.9
2006 Oct 14			89.66 209 x 306 x 64.9
		Apogee trim	89.72 209 x 311 x 64.9
2006 Oct 19			89.61 207 x 302 x 64.9
		Orbit raise	89.84 221 x 311 x 64.9
2006 Oct 20		Orbit lower	89.66 208 x 307 x 64.9
2006 Oct 26			89.49 204 x 293 x 64.9
		Orbit raise	89.75 207 x 316 x 64.9
2006 Nov 1			89.64 204 x 308 x 64.9
2006 Nov 2		Orbit raise	89.75 206 x 318 x 64.9
2006 Nov 3			89.73 210 x 311 x 64.9
2006 Nov 17			89.38 202 x 285 x 64.9

Aviation Week: December 11,2006

 https://welib.org/md5/8b3355011cf3373d999f8d0b6885e70a

XM-4 (Blues)

 2006-049A

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5193 kg XM-4 digital audio radio satellite for XM Satellite Radio; a type 702 built by Boeing with payload by Alcatel Alenia.

XM-4
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2006 Oct 30	2348:59	Launch by Zenit-3SL	SLO
		T+2:30 St 1 sep
		T+3:47 Fairing sep
	2357:30	T+8:31 St 2 sep	-2120 x 189 x 0
	2357:40	T+8:41 DM MES-1
2006 Oct 31	0003:05	T+14:06 MECO-1	180 x 1620 x 0
	0043:06	T+44:07 DM MES-2
	0049:17	T+50:18 DM MECO-2	1235 x 36175 x 0
	0059:56	T+1:00:57 DM sep
		T+6:13:25 Apogee	656.45 1239 x 36057 x 0.0
2006 Nov 6			946.05 15049 x 36040 x 0.2
2006 Nov 10?		LAM
2006 Nov 13			1436.36 35499 x 36084 x 0.1 GEO 110.0W
2006 Nov 15			1436.48 35504 x 36083 x 0.1 GEO 110.4W
2006 Dec 5		Mv out
2006 Dec 23			1436.09 35783 x 35789 x 0.0 GEO 115.0W

ERBS

 1984-108B

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The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) was originally planned as the fourth Applications Explorer Mission (AEM-D). ERBS was carried into space aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission 41-G. Launch was at 1103 on 1984 Oct 5. It was deployed by the RMS arm at 2218 on Oct 5 into a 353 x 355 km x 57 deg orbit. A hydrazine internal propulsion system was used to raise the orbit. Its final orbit was 601 x 605 km x 57 deg.

ERBS
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1984 Oct 5	1103	Launch by Shuttle
1984 Oct 5	2218	RMS deploy	353 x 355 x 57
1984 Oct 7		3hr AOCS burn for orbit raise	408 x 420 x 57.0
1984 Oct 8		6h7m AOCS burn
1984 Oct 9		4h48m AOCS burn
		Orbit trim	592 x 603 x 57.0
1984 Oct 10		Operational orbit	603 x 604 x 57.0
1984 Oct 23		Operational
1984 Nov 6		ERBE contamination doors open
1985 Jan 10			596 x 610 x 57.0
1989		Begin orbital decay
1992		Orbit maintenance resumes
1998		Orbit maintenance ends, resume decay
2002 Jul 21			562 x 568 x 57.0
2002 Jul		Perigee lower burns
2002 Aug 3			547 x 566 x 57.0
2002 Aug 25			507 x 558 x 57.0
2005 Sep 8		Demo burn
2005 Sep 13		Confidence burn
2005 Sep 16		Depletion burn 1
2005 Sep 16			496 x 551 x 57.0
2005 Sep 26		Depletion burn 2?, tumbled
2005 Oct 6			500 x 547 x 57.0
2005 Oct 12		Depletion burns
2005 Oct 14		Depletion burns
2005 Oct 15		end of ops
2005 Oct 18			507 x 539 x 57.0

Payload:

• ERBE-S ERBE-Scanner, five channel cavity radiometer (two nadir wide FOV 0.2-50 mu, 0.2-5 mu, two nadir medium FOV 0.2-50,0.2-5mu, one solar viewing).

• ERBE-NS ERBE Non Scanner (Earth Radiation Budget Satellite) Radiators to measure amount of solar energy received and reradiated by different parts of Earth. Operates with NOAA-F,G; three channel bolometers, 0.2-5, 5-50, 0.2-50 mu.

• SAGE-II Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Expt II, 7-channel radiometer

DFH-46

 1999-025A

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The first operational FY-1, FY-1C, was launched in 1999. The number of channels in the radiometer was increased, as well as on board data storage capacity. The resolution is 1.1 km. Vehicle is a 1.4m cube with two solar panels of 8.6m span. Mass is 958 kg. According to AvWeek, FY-1C was built by CAST/Beijing for the National Satellite Meteorological Center  but most sources say the FY-1 series were built in Shanghai.

FY-1C
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1999 May 10	0133	Launch by CZ-4B	TYSC
	0135	T+2:32 St 1 sep
		St 2 burn
	0135	T+2:47 Fairing sep
	0139	T+6:48 Stage 2 MECO
	0139	T+6:49 St 2 sep
		Stage 3 burn
	0145	T+12:29 FY-1C sep
	0146	T+13:34 SJ5 sep
1999 May 13			848 x 868 x 98.7
2001 May		Still operating
2002 Jan 30		Begin rapid decay	846 x 868 x 98.7
2002 Oct 1		Reached final orbit	842 x 865 x 98.7
		Begin slow steady decay
2007 Jan 11			843 x 862 x 98.7
	2228	Intercept by ASAT

DART

 2005-014A

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48 kg NASA/Orbital experiment, Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology. Mass 350 kg, size 1.8m long 1.0m dia. The DART AVGS payload is attached to the HAPS fourth stage of the Pegasus launch vehicle and has propulsion, AVGS, RCS, batteries, and communications. DART is an MSFC project which grew out of the VGS experiment on the Spartan-201 satellite carried on STS-87 and STS-95.

HAPS capacity is 57 kg prop and has three 220N thrusters. The AVGS bus has 16 cold-gas 3.5N, Isp=60s N2 thrusters with 23 kg prop capacity. It is 0.6m dia 0.6m long (0.9m long with GPS antenna etc) while HAPS is 1.0m dia 1.0m long.

Rendezvous with MUBLCOM at 150m R-bar stationkeep. The entire mission is preprogrammed, without ground command during flight. The misson was monitored at VAFB's DART Mission Ops Center. After reaching 95m to MUBLCOM, DART detected that it was unexpectedly low on fuel and moved away to abort the mission. Post-flight analysis revealed that DART had collided with MUBLCOM due to multiple software and algorithmic problems.

The TLEs for DART show it in the MUBLCOM orbit until Apr 18; no TLEs for MUBLCOM exist for Apr 16-18. OSC reports the DART safing burn was on Apr 16; I conclude that the DART TLEs for Apr 17-18 actually belong to MUBLCOM.

DART
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2005 Apr 15	1627	L-1011 T/O from VAFB
	1726:50	Drop
	1726:55	T+0:05 S1 burn 11.5 km 0.442 km/s
	1728	T+1:17 S1 off 63.1 km 1.606 km/s
	1728	T+1:35 S2 on 88.0 km 2.429 km/s
	1728	T+1:50 Fairing 108.6 km 2.710 km/s
	1729	T+2:48 S2 off 216.1 km 5.428 km/s
	1735:21?	Stage 2 sep
	1735:30	T+8:40 S3 on
	1736:35?	T+9:45? S3 off 7.545 km/s 0.0 deg	400 x 547 x 97.7
		On orbit checkout in phasing orbit 1
	1738:41?	S3 sep
	1738:45?	HAPS burn 1
	1739:20?	HAPS cutoff	500 x 756 x 97.7
		Phasing orbit 2
2005 Apr 16		HAPS burn 2
	0055?	T+7:29:00 HAPS burn 2 cutoff	739 x 742 x 97.7
		T+7:29:00 DART 40 km behind and 7.5 km below MUBLCOM
		T+7:55:42 DART CW Transfer burn 1A?, to range 3 km
		T+8:36:49 DART stationkeep at 3 km
		T+8:51:49 DART CW transfer burn 2A?, to range 1 km
		T+10:08:05 DART stationkeep at 1 km
	0340?	T+10:13:05 Approach to 95m	740 x 746 x 97.7
		X-1:23 Collision avoidance activated
	0418:46	X+0:00 Impact MUBLCOM
		T+11hr, X+0:03:49 Retreat to 300m
	1047		740 x 751 x 97.7
2005 Apr 16	1715:45	Retirement burn
	1724:11	Safed
	1753:09	Transmitter on to deplete battery
2005 Apr 18		394 x 746 x 97.7

Planned DART proxops
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
		T+11:10:34 -Vbar rendezvous at 15m
		T+12:59:20 Stationkeep at 15m on target docking axis
		T+13:06:31 Approaches to 5m with avoidance tests
		T+13:43:12 Retreat to -100m on Vbar
		T+14:21:35 Simulated avoidance
		T+14:29:53 Retreat to -200m on -Vbar
		T+15:23:48 Flyaround to +Rbar (nadir) at 150m
		+Rbar approach to 100m
		+Rbar retreat to 300m
		Flyaround to +Vbar, -Rbar, -Vbar
		Second -Vbar approach to 200m
		Flyaround to +Rbar, rerendezvous
		T+19:59:23 Second +Rbar approach to 100m
		Retreat to 300m
		T+20:22:26 HAPS Retirement burn, lower perigee