Wednesday, December 6, 2000

Kosmos 198

  1967-127A


The first US-A satellite was launched on the second 11K67 test flight. The two stage R-36 delivered the US-A payload onto a suborbital trajectory; the engine unit (DU) on the US-A fired for the orbit insertion burn, and the satellite entered a 249 x 270 km orbit; Somewhat later the dummy reactor section, using chemical batteries, was separated and its orbit was raised to 900 km. Two objects remained in the low orbit; they are believed to be the DU engine section and the radar section.


Kosmos-198 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1967 Dec 27  1128:51  Launch by 11K67  KB 
 1131? Stage 2 burn 
 1134? Stage 2 sep 
 1135? DU burn 
 1139?  DU cutoff   
 1200?  Stage 2 impact 
 1248   89.85 264 x 269 x 65.1 
 1957? DU and radar sep 
 1957  DV1?  262 x 945  
 2044  DV2? 

1967 Dec 28  1244  (Radar) 89.62 239 x 271 x 65.1 
1967 Dec 29  0639  (DU)  89.46 240 x 254 x 65.1 
1967 Dec 29  1900   103.46 894 x 949 x 65.2 
1967 Dec 31  0903  (DU)  88.09 168 x 191 x 65.1 
1968 Jan 20  1106  (Radar)  87.66 153 x 163 x 65.1 
1998 May 15  103.38 888 x 948 x 65.1

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