Saturday, March 12, 1994

Corona 81

  1964-032A


Mission 1007 was launched on 1964 Jun 19 by TAT Agena D from Vandenberg; it was the 81st in the CORONA program and the 7th KH-4A. Mission 1007-1 and Mission 1007-2 each lasted 4 days with recovery of both SRVs being successful. The mission used Agena 1609, the first S-01B model.


KH-4A Mission 1007 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1964 Jun 19  2318:07  Launch by TAT Agena D  V Pad 75-1-1 
 2319  Castor sep(T+1:05) 
 2320  Thor MECO (T+2:34) 
 2320  Thor VECO (T+2:42) 
 2320  Thor sep (T+2:48) 
 2320  Agena burn (T+2:56) 
 2324  Agena MECO (T+6:59)  91.02 185 x 479 x 85.0 (VCR) 
1964 Jun 20  0147   90.94 191 x 450 x 85.0 
1964 Jun 21  0303   90.92 177 x 462 x 85.0 
1964 Jun 21  0230   90.95 176 x 462 x 85.0 (RAE) 
1964 Jun 23  0103   90.88 178 x 457 x 85.0 
1964 Jun 24  0148:58  SRV-1 ejected rev 65 
 0149:08  Retro 
 0149:22  T/C sep 
 0158:25  Para cover off 
1964 Jun 24  0226  SRV-1 recovered -100? x 290? x 85.0 
1964 Jun 27   Rev 120 last photo pass 
1964 Jun 28  0113:28  SRV-2 ejected rev 128  -150? x 326? x 85.0 
 0113:38  Retro 
 0113:50  T/C sep 
 0124:17  Main parachute deployed 
1964 Jun 28  0150 SRV-2 recovered  
1964 Jun 30  0842   90.63 180 x 430 x 85.0 
1964 Jul 10  1200   89.60 173 x 332 x 85.0 (RAE) 
1964 Jul 15  1107   88.30 155 x 226 x 85.0 
1964 Jul 16  1845?  Reentered 

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