Friday, September 5, 1997

Kosmos 305

  1969-092


Kosmos-305 (E-8-5 No. 404) suffered the same fate as Kosmos-300 in the following month's launch window. Various reports claimed that the Blok-D disintegrated or that the payload may have entered a high orbit, but the modern consensus seems to be that the second burn was cut short and occurred at the wrong orientation, with rapid reentry of the payload and Blok-D.


Kosmos-305 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1969 Oct 22  1409:59  Launch by Proton-K  KB LC81 
 1412?  Stage 2 burn 
 1415?Stage 3 burn 
 1419  Stage 3 sep  -800? x 210 x 51.5 
 1425?  Blok-D burn 1  
 1427?  Blok-D cutoff 1, parking orbit  182 x 210 x 51.5? 
 1436?  Stage 3 reentry 
 1520?  Blok-D burn 2  
 1520?  SOZ burn 
 1520? SOZ sep (92A/B) 
 1530?  Blok-D MECO?  70? x 187? x 51.5 
 1615  Reentry over Australia? 

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