Friday, October 18, 2002

Kosmos 637

  1974-017A


The Kosmos-637 satellite was a test of the 11F638 Raduga (Gran') spacecraft and was the first Soviet geosynchronous satellite.The launch tested the new Blok-DM upper stage, a Blok D with a toroidal control module. 


Kosmos-637 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1974 Mar 26  1335:00  Launch by Proton-K  KB 
  8S812 burn 
 1344  8S812 sep (17C) 88.02 166 x 191 x 51.52 (RAE) 
  (17A)  88.56 177 x 228 x 51.54 
 1344? Adapter sep (17B) 
 1453? T+1:18? Blok-DM burn 1 at equator 
  Blok-DM cutoff  226 x 36611 x 49.7 (RAE) 
 1955? SOZ sep 
 1955? Blok-DM burn 2 
 2000? Blok-DM sep  1525.78 35400 x 35768 x 0.3 (17F) 
1974 Apr 11  
 1425.58 35412 x 35748 x 0.3 
1974 Sep 1    1425.8 35390 x 35779 x 0.25 (RAE) 
1978 Nov 6    1428.82 35481 x 35806 x 3.3 
1980 Jun 10    1428.79 35486 x 35800 x 4.4 
1985 Jan 28    1428.92 35467 x 35824 x 7.5 
1990 Jan 30    1428.79 35479 x 35807 x 11.1 
1995 Jan 2    1428.79 35470 x 35816 x 13.9 
1998 Aug 4    1428.96 35472 x 35821 x 14.7 

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