Friday, July 26, 1991

Kosmos 188

  1967-107A


Spacecraft 5 had originally been prepared for launch as Soyuz-2 during the Soyuz-1 mission. It was recycled for the automatic docking mission and launched as Kosmos-188. 7K-OK No. 5 (Kosmos-188) completed the first Soviet docking with 7K-OK No. 6 (Kosmos-186), only an hour after its launch on 1967 Oct 30. The docking was only a soft docking; a problem later to surface on Soyuz-10 prevented a complete seal.

The ion orientation system was used for deorbit, but locally low ion flux threw ite sensor off and the entry path was shallow and heading for impact east of Ulan-Ude. The APO self destruct system fired 60 km over Irkutsk.


Kosmos-188 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1967 Oct 30  0812:41  Launch by 11A511 Soyuz  KB LC1 
 0817  Blok-I burn 
 0821  Blok-I sep; 24 km from K186 
 0920  Docked with 7K-OK No. 6  88.79 180 x 249 x 51.65 
 1250  Undocked  88.87 183 x 255 x 51.72 
 2248   88.97 192 x 255 x 51.72 
1967 Nov 1  0126?  88.84 190 x 245 x 51.64 
1967 Nov 2  0703  Deorbit 
 0715?  BO, PAO sep 
 0725?  Reentry over Irkutsk 

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