Monday, February 4, 2002

Kosmos 97

  1965-095A


DS-U2-M No. 1 was launched into an elliptical orbit with an apogee of over 2000 km. It carried an experimental spaceborne maser for use as a satellite frequency standard. The test was probably related to navigation satellite technology, although atomic clock based navsats would not be used by the USSR until the 1980s.


Kosmos-97 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1965 Nov 26  1214?  Launch by 63S1M  GTsP4 
 1216? Stage 2 burn 
 1220? Stage 2 sep 
   213 x 2144 x 48.4 
1966 Jan 23   End of operations 
1967 Apr 2   Reentered 

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