Sunday, June 14, 1992

Kosmos 375

  1970-091A


The second Oct 1970 test seems to have been a success. The spacecraft entered an orbit with a 1000 km apogee and after the explosion the main debris was in a 2100 km apogee orbit. Analysis of TLEs suggests the explosion happened at 0552 UTC over 4W 29N at around 580 km.


Kosmos-375 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1970 Oct 30  0237  Launch by 11K69  KB 
 0239  Stage 2 burn 
 0242?  Stage 2 sep  145? x 530? x 62.9  
 0330?  DU burn  530? x 565? x 62.9  
 0403   100.44 565 x 993 x 62.9 
 0415 DU burn 2?  
 0425Intercept orbit perigee at 565 km over 48E 54N 
 0511  Intercept orbit apogee over 144W 55S 
 0549?  Flyby Kosmos-373 
 0552  Exploded 
1970 Nov 3  0103   111.83 524 x 2097 x 62.8 

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