Saturday, March 14, 1998

Polyot 2

  1964-019A


The second launch of the 11A59/Polyot system came in Apr 1964. This time only the final orbit was announced initially. Object 783 (1964-19B) in a 238 x 497 km x 60.0 deg orbit, reentered after 18 days. Object 784 (1964-19A) in a 302 x 479 km x 58.1 deg orbit, stayed in orbit until 1966.


Polyot-2  
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1964 Apr 12  0930  Launch by 11A59  KB 
  T+1:30 strapon thrust reduced 
 0932 T+2:05 8K74BVGD strapon sep  
  Fairing sep 
 0935  T+5:30 8K74A core burnout, sep  -500? x 300? x 58.0? 
1964 Apr 12  0940?  T+10:30? Polyot engine burn 
 0942?  Polyot engine cutoff  242 x 485 x 59.92 
  Second burn failed 
1964 Apr 13  0211  (19B) 91.90 238 x 497 x 59.95 
1964 Apr 13  1607  (19A)  92.38 302 x 479 x 58.05 
1964 Apr 15?   End of transmissions? 
1964 Apr 17   (19B) 91.54 236 x 463 x 59.92 
1964 Apr 22   (19A) 92.37 304 x 476 x 58.06 
1964 May 8   (19B) reentered 
1966 Jun 8  2110?  (19A) reentered 

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