Sunday, December 24, 1995

HEOS 1

  1968-109A


The Highly Eccentric Orbit Satellite was built for ESRO by Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke AG.

HEOS-1 was launched in Dec 1968 by a Delta E1 from Cape Kennedy. On 1969 Mar 18 the 8 kg S-16 barium capsule was ejected and ignited as the first high altitude chemical release.


HEOS 1 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1968 Dec 5  1855:00  Launch by Delta DSV3E-1 CK LC17B 
  T+0:38 SRM burnout  
  T+1:00 SRM sep 
 1857:29 T+2:29 MECO 
  T+2:34 St 1 sep 
 1857:34 T+2:34 SES-1 6:28 
  T+2:46 Fairing sep 
 1904:02 T+9:02 SECO-1 387 km  
  T+48:20 Spinup 
 1943:35 T+48:35 St 2 sep  176 x 792 x 28.3 
 1943:35  T+48:35 FW4D ignition 32s, 446 km 
 1944:07  T+49:06 FW4D burnout, 457 km 
 1944:36  T+49:36 Despin weights sep
 1945:06  T+50:06 FW4D sep 
   6750.0 418 x 223440 x 28.3 
1968 Dec 6  1320?  Pass EL1:4 
1968 Dec 10    6699.72 421 x 222269 x 28.3 
1969 Mar 18    2302 x 220406 x 31.7 
1969 Mar 18  0439:51  S-16 capsule ejected 
  HEOS orbit  2298 x 220341? x 31.7 
  S-16 orbit  2358? x 221251? x 31.7 
 0720:52  Barium cloud ignited, alt 75000 km 
1970 Mar 19    6704.14 12444 x 210549 x 52.6 
1970 Nov 7    6704.20 20020 x 202775 x 60.5 
1970 Dec 5    6704.61 21119 x 201686 x 61.8 
1975 Oct 28   End of transmissions 

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