Tuesday, February 18, 2003

Explorer 36

  1968-002A


Geos 2 (Geos B before launch) was orbited on 1968 Jan 11 at 1618 from Vandenberg. It entered a 112.3 min, 1084 x 1577 km x 105.8 deg orbit and was given the designation Explorer XXXVI. It was operational until 1968 Dec 30.


Geos 2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1968 Jan 11  1616:00  Launch by Delta  
  SRM out 
  T+1:05 Castor II SRM sep 
 1618 T+2:30 MECO 
  T+2:36 Stage 1 sep 
 1618 T+2:36 SES-1 6:13 
  T+2:40 Fairing 
 1624:40 SECO-1 T+8:40 
 1631:48? St 2 sep  -3680? x 1097 x 105.8 
 1631:48 T+15:48 FW4D burn 33s 
 1632:19 T+16:19 FW4D burnout 
 1632? Despin
 1633FW4D sep  112.3 1084 x 1577 x 105.8 
1968 Jan 15  1224  Boom deployed to 9m 
1968 Feb 20   Science operations begin
1968 Dec 30   End of main ops 

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