Thursday, August 7, 2008

Interkosmos 22

 1981-075A


The Interkosmos-22 satellite was named Interkosmos-Bolgaria-1300 ( Interkosmos-Bolgariya-1300, Interkosmos-Bulgaria-1300) to celebrate the 1300th anniversary of Bulgarian statehood.

Based on the Meteor 2 bus, IKB-1300 was launched by a Vostok rocket into a 800 x 895 km orbit inclined 81.2 deg. It carried laser reflectors for geodetic work and a set of particles and fields experiments to study the magnetosphere and ionosphere.


Interkosmos-22 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1981 Aug 7  1335 Launch by 8A92M Vostok  NIIP-53 
 1339?  Blok E burn 
 1345? Blok E MECO 
   800 x 895 x 81.2 
1983 Sep   Still operating 
2008 Aug 5    101.56 786 x 878 x 81.2 

Payload:

  • Laser tracking reflectors

  • EMO-5 scanning Auroral/Airglow photometer

  • P6-1T spherical ion trap

  • ID-1 ion drift meter

  • ion energy/mass analyser

  • Foton-1 UV airglow spectrometer 1500-2560A

  • IESP-IAMP E,B field measurement

  • plasma, particles ('Elektron')

  • Proton spectrometer

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