Ferret 15

 1970-066A

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The third STRAWMAN carried the standard THRESHER and REAPER payloads only, on mission 7166.

REAPER was able to locate radars to 7 km accuracy.

OPS 8329
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1970 Aug 26	1001	Launch by LTTA Thor Agena D	V
	1002?	Castor II SRMs sep (T+1:42?)
	1004?	Thor MECO (T+3:37?)
	1004?	Thor VECO (T+3:46?)
	1004?	Thor sep (T+3:52?)
	1004?	Agena burn (T+3:58?)
	1009?	Agena MECO (T+8:00?)	-100? x 483 x 75.0
	1031?	Agena MES-2
	1031?	Agena MECO-2
1970 Aug 27	0903		94.48 484 x 501 x 75.0
1970 Dec 12		THRESHER TI mode failed
1971 Jan 16			94.27 474 x 491 x 75.0

People: October 15,1984

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Spaceflight: September-October 1984

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Venera 5

  1969-001A

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V-69 No. 330 was named Venera-5 after its successful launch. The solar orbit insertion burn was over Africa. The SA stopped transmitting at an altitude of 25 km. It impacted at -3 latitude, 18 longitude. Conditions at the site were calculated to be 530 C, 140 bar.

Venera-5
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1969 Jan 5	0628	Launch by 8K78M	KB
	0633	Blok-A sep
	0633	Blok-I burn
	0637	Blok-I sep
	0747	BOZ burn
1969 Jan 5	0747	Blok-L burn 3:48, solar orbit
	0751	Blok-L sep
	1000	25100 km over SE China
1969 Mar 3		TCM 9m/s
1969 May 16	0408	Landing sequence on at range 50000 km
	0436	SA sep, range 37000 km
	0601	Entry 11.16km/s
	0602:30	AOS, parachutes out
	0654:56	End of signal, 53 min, 25 km up
	0715?	Impact

Surveyor 7

  1968-001A

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Surveyor SC7 (Surveyor G) was launched at 0630:01, on azimuth 102.9 deg, on 1968 Jan 7 by Atlas Centaur. The Centaur coasted in parking orbit, then reignited and shut down at 0705:16 to deliver Surveyor VII to a translunar trajectory. The Surveyor made a course correction at 2230 on 1968 Jan 7. The radar was jettisoned around 0100 on Jan 10 and the retro fired successfully, with landing at 0105:38 on Jan 10 on the Tycho ejecta blanket. For the first time both the alpha-scatter and sampler experiments were carried on the same mission. The craft returned over 21000 pictures, and survived one lunar night. The surface sampler was tested, manipulating rocks and digging trenches. On the second lunar day, battery degradation limited operations. The last transmission from Surveyor VII was at 0024 on 1968 Feb 21. 

Surveyor 7
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1968 Jan 7	0630:01	Launch by Atlas SLV-3C Centaur	CC LC36
	0632:33	BECO
	0632:36	Booster sep	-5940 x 100 ?
	0633:17	Insulation panels jettison
	0633:47	Fairing
	0634:09	Atlas SECO	-5450 ? x 166 ?
	0634:11	Atlas sep
	0634:21	Centaur MES-1
	0639:53	Centaur MECO-1	87.80 166 x 176 x 30.69
		22.5 min coast
	0702:20	Centaur MES-2
	0704:15	Centaur MECO-2	166 x 729739 x 30.68 (GD)
	0704:33	SV legs deploy
	0705:16	Centaur sep	169 x 697813 x 30.69
	0709:16	Centaur retro
	0713:25	Centaur retro complete	166 x 483702 x 30.68 (GD)
	2330:09	MCC 11.3s 11.1m/s	217 x 716748 x 29.5
1968 Jan 10	0035	Attitude for landing
	0057:34	AMR on
	0102:13	Vernier engines on
1968 Jan 10	0102:14	Radar jettison	-1056 x -9282 x 62.85
	0102:14	Retro
	0102:57	Retro burnout
	0103:08	Vernier high thrust
	0103:09	Retro eject	-1736 x 18 x ?
	0105:12	Altitude 300m
	0105:28	Altitude 15m
	0105:36	Landing 40.89S 11.44W
	1326	AC-15 flyby 19743 km
		Centaur orbit	167124 x 445181
1968 Jan 26	1412	Shutdown for lunar night
1968 Feb 12	1900	Revived for day 2
1968 Feb 20		Communications problems
1968 Feb 21	0024	Last transmission

Aviation Week: December 3,1984

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Molniya 121

 1970-101A

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Molniya-1 (F21,N16) entered the D plane, replacing N14 and being replaced by N22.

Molniya-1 F21
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1970 Nov 27	1547:17	Launch by 8K78M	PL
		BVGD sep
		GO sep
		T+4:46 Blok A sep
		T+4:56 KhO sep
		T+8:46 Blok-I MECO
	1555	T+8:50 Blok-I sep
		T+53:16 BOZ burn
	1640?	T+53:56 BOZ sep
		ML burn
		T+56:46 ML MECO
	1643?	T+56:54 ML sep
1970 Dec 6			707.15 469 x 39359 x 65.5
1970 Dec 9			707.20 438 x 39393 x 65.5
1970 Dec 22			717.81 462 x 39893 x 65.4
1971 Apr 16			717.81 612 x 39743 x 65.5
1971 Apr 24			717.78 624 x 39730 x 65.5
1971 Jun 2			717.70 703 x 39647 x 65.5
1972 Feb?		end of ops
1974 Aug 1			717.97 807 x 39556 x 65.6
1975 Jul 24			717.51 202 x 40139 x 65.2
1975 Nov 25		Reentered

Seventeen: August 1984

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Teen: December 1984

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The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1980

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Ume 1

 1976-019A

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NASDA and the Radio Research Lab (RRL) developed the Ionospheric Sounding Satellite (ISS), a 135 kg, 0.82 m long, 0.94m diameter spacecraft with a swept frequency topside sounder with 36.8m and 11.4m span dipole antennae covering a range from 0.5 to 148 MHz. Prime contractor was Mitsubishi. The satellite was named Ume (Japanese apricot blossom) after launch. Launch was southeast from TNSC at azimuth 115 deg (corresponding to a 38 deg inclination); a yaw burn in second stage changed inclination to 70 deg.

Ume
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1976 Feb 29	0330	Launch N-I 2	TNSC
	0333	St 1 sep	-6000? x 200? x 38?
		Fairing sep
	0335	St 2 burn 4:30
	0339	St 2 cutoff	-3200 x 998 x 51.4
	0340	St 3 burn, circ
	0341?	St 3 sep	105.2 994 x 1013 x 69.7
1976 Mar		Electrical malfunction
1976 Aug 2		End of tx

Payload:

• TOP Swept frequency topside sounder, 36.8m., 11.4m dipoles; 0.5-148 MHz

• PIC Ion mass spectrometers

Senior Class

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Town and Country: September 1984

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Contemporary Music Almanac: 1980-81

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Space World: November 1984

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Town and Country: August 1984

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Molniya 103

  1965-030A

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The third launch of an 11F67 Molniya-1, Molniya-1 No. 3, was the first to be given the Molniya-1 name.

Molniya-1 (F3)
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1965 Apr 23	0155	Launch by 8K78	KB
	0200?	Blok-A sep
	0200?	Blok-I burn
	0204?	Blok-I sep
	0255?	BOZ burn
	0256?	Blok-L burn
	0300?	Blok-L sep
1965 Apr 23	0321		94.38 198 x 778 x 64.8
1965 Apr 25	0228		707.29 530 x 39305 x 65.5
1965 Apr 29	0046		707.25 535 x 39298 x 65.1
1965 Apr?		TCM, test of KDU
1965 May 4			720.55 529 x 39961 x 65.3
1965 Nov 26		End of operations
1978 Oct 29			718.13 244 x 40127 x 64.2
1979 Feb 22			668.98 151 x 37767 x 64.1
1979 Apr 10			558.93 107 x 32089 x 64.1
1979 May 8		Reentered

Payload:

• C-band 6/4 GHz transponders

U.S. government directories, 1970-1981 : a selected, annotated bibliography

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Aviation Week: April 16,1984

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Aviation Week: September 10,1984

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