Thursday, February 7, 1980

Kosmos 246

  1968-087A


Zenit-4 No. 51 flew a short 5 day mission in Oct 1968. The launch vehicle malfunctioned and left the payload in a lower than planned orbit. It flew over Kennedy Space Center half an hour after the launch of Apollo 7 and may have been used to observe the launch site.


Kosmos-246 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1968 Oct 7  1205:46  Launch by 11A57  PL 
 1210  Blok-I burn 
 1214  Blok-I sep   
 1918   89.34 148 x 334 x 65.4 
1968 Oct 9  1725   89.11 144 x 316 x 65.4 
1968 Oct 12  0617?  Deorbit 
 0641?  Landed after 4.76d 

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