Thursday, February 10, 1994

Kosmos 918

 1977-050A


US sources, reported by Nick Johnson, said that a successful intercept of Kosmos-909 happened on the first orbit at an altitude of about 1575 km. Based on the target orbit, the possible intercept times are around 0809 UTC over 105W 60S, and 0908 UTC over 42E 51N.


Kosmos-918 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1977 Jun 17  0723:10 Launch by 11K69  KB 
 0725  Stage 2 burn 
 0728  Stage 2 sep  88.19 127 x 243 x 65.1 
 0800?  Move to eccentric orbit 
1977 Jun 17   245x1630x65.9? (NLJ) 
   243 x 1760? x 65.9 
1977 Jun 17 0908  Intercepted K909 on rev 1 at 1575 km 
 0922?  Deorbit 
1977 Jun 17 0950? reentered 

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