Friday, June 8, 2007

Ekran 1

 1976-107A


11F647 No. 11, the first Ekran satellite, was launched on 1976 Oct 26 by 8K82K Proton-K from Baikonur. The Ekran was placed into low orbit attached to the 11S86 (Blok-DM) upper stage. The two Blok-DM burns placed Ekran in geostationary orbit; it was located at the 99 deg E position registered as Statsionar-T. All Ekran satellites would be located at this same location.


Ekran 11 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1976 Oct 26  1450 Launch by Proton-K  KB 
  T+2:01? Stage 2 burn 
  T+2:06? Stage 1 sep 
  T+3:03? Fairing lower half sep 
  T+3:03? Fairing upper half sep 
  T+5:31? Stage 3 burn 
  T+5:34? Stage 2 sep 
 1459 T+9:49? Stage 3 sep  
  1607? DM burn 1 
  2123? DM burn 2 
  2127? DM sep 
1976 Oct    GEO 99E 
1977 Mar 19    1436.12 35532 x 36042 x 0.1 GEO 99.5E 
1978 May 9    1436.25 35508 x 36070 x 0.8 GEO 100.1E 
1978 Aug   end of stationkeeping  
1978 Oct 5    1436.44 35515 x 36071 x 1.1 GEO 97.6E 
1978 Nov 1    1436.36 35517 x 36066 x 1.1 GEO 95.3E 
1979 Jan    1436.6 
1980 May    1427.0min 
1982 Feb end of ops 
1987 Jan 4    1435.67 35512 x 36044 x 7.6 
1999 Apr 18   1435.64 35484 x 36070 x 15.0 

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