Saturday, February 20, 1999

Kosmos 174

  1967-082A


In Aug 1967 the Korolev bureau launched a Molniya-1Yu (Yustirovochnaya, calibration) satellite. The satellite may have been used for testing the N-1/L-3 lunar mission tracking and communications network.


Kosmos-174 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1967 Aug 31  0800:03  Launch by Molniya 8K78M  KB 
 0804  Blok-I burn 
 0809  Blok-I sep  91.06 199 x 454 x 64.8 (RAE) 
 0904?  Blok-L burn  
 0905?  Blok-L cutoff  
 0906?  Blok-L sep  715.0 430 x 39796 x 64.9 (RAE) 
1967 Sep 6    715.14 423 x 39800 x 64.9 
1968 Apr?   End of ops
1968 Aug 25    709.17 185 x 39743 x 65.1 
1968 Oct 15    681.26 127 x 38409 x 65.2 
1968 Dec 8    493.19 117 x 28482 x 65.1 
1968 Dec 28    147.36 125 x 5601 x 65.3 
1968 Dec 30   Reentered 

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