Tuesday, September 8, 1992

Corona 67

  1963-029A


KH-4 Mission 9057 was launched on 1963 Jul 19 by a Thor with upper stage Agena D no. 1412 into an 83 degree orbit. It was still operating on Jul 21. This mission was the only KH-4 flight to use a 1400 series Agena instead of an 1100 series one; it was the first of four follow-on MURAL flights.


KH-4 Mission 9057 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1963 Jul 19  0000:11  Launch by Thor Agena D  V Pad 1 
 0002  Thor MECO (T+2:25) 
 0002  Thor VECO (T+2:34) 
 0002:51  Thor sep (T+2:40) 
 0003:19  Agena burn (T+3:08) 
 0007:17  Agena cutoff (T+7:06)  90.44 206 x 400 x 82.8 (VCR) 
1963 Jul 19  0359   90.34 197 x 384 x 82.7 
1963 Jul 20  1700   90.44 194 x 387 x 82.9 (RAE) 
1963 Jul 20  1741   90.34 195 x 387 x 82.9 
1963 Jul    90.4 197 x 382 x 82.9 (SATCAT) 
1963 Jul 23  0155?  SRV sep, deorbit rev 64 
 0237  SRV recovered Pacific (midair)  
1963 Jul 23  0559   90.30 194 x 384 x 82.9 
1963 Jul 26  1900   90.37 189 x 367 x 82.9 (RAE) 
1963 Jul 29   Deb 29B (RCS 0.32) reentered  89.4 201 x 281 x 82.8 (SATCAT) 
1963 Aug 11  1430   88.65 178 x 215 x 82.9 (RAE) 
1963 Aug    88.0 174 x 180 x 82.9 (SATCAT) 
1963 Aug 12  1730   88.04 174 x 180 x 82.9 
1963 Aug 13  1900? CORONA 67/Agena 1412 reentered 

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