Monday, February 1, 1988

Gemini 2

  1965-U02


Gemini spacecraft 2 was flown on a suborbital test. It was later refurbished as spacecraft 2B; the GT-2B mission was flown as another suborbital test in Nov 1966.

The vehicle was recovered 3422 km downrange after a 19 min flight. The recovery ship was USS Lake Champlain. Location was 49 46W 16 36N.

Deorbit burn was 102.02m/s at -29.2 deg for components of -89.0, -49.8, 0.0.


GT-2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1965 Jan 19  1304:00  Launch  
 1306:31  T+2:31 BECO 
 1306:32  T+2:32 Stage 1 sep 
 1307:17 T+3:17 radar and sensor fairings sep 
 1309:00?  Apogee 171 km 
 1309:32  T+5:32 Stage 2 SECO 167km  -93 x 426 x 31.65  
  Stage 2 tailoff 31m/s 
 1309:52  SECO+20s Stage 2 sep (5m/s OAMS burn) 160km  -48 x 493 x 31.66 
  Orient for retro 
 1310:54  T+6:54 Adapter sep 67W 24.5N, 125 km 
 1310:54  Retro-1 5.4s  
 1310:59  Retro-2 5.4s  
 1311:05  Retro-3 5.4s  
 1311:11  Retro-4 5.4s  
 1311:16  Retrofire complete -102m/s 
 1311:39  T+7:39 Retro sep  -136 x 283 x 31.66 
 1312:56Reentry 
 1313:05  LOS 
 1322:16  T+18:16 Landing 

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