Kosmos 1413

 1982-100A

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Uragan No. 11L (224) was the first GLONASS satellite

Kosmos-1413
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1982 Oct 12	1457	Launch by Proton	KB
		T+2:07? Stage 1 sep
		T+3:18? Fairing
		T+5:38? Stage 2 sep
	1506	T+9:40? Stage 3 MECO	179 x 194 x 51,7
	1507	T+9:53? Stage 3 sep
	1608?	T+1:03? DM MES-1
	1614?	T+1:09? DM MECO-1	397 x 19077 x 52.0
	1902?	T+4:05? DM MES-2
	1904?	T+4:07? DM MECO-2
	1905?	T+4:08? Glonass sats sep from DM
1982 Oct 12			673.43 19068 x 19075 x 64.8
1982 Oct 15		In service
1982 Nov 9			673.32 19067 x 19070 x 64.8
1984 Jan 12		end of ops

Kosmos 1062

 1978-115A

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Kosmos-1062
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1978 Dec 15	1319	Launch by 11K65M	Plesetsk
	1321	S3 burn
	1327?	T+8m? S3 MECO-1
	1352?	T+33m? S3 MES-2
	1352?	S3 sep
1978 Dec 15			95.2 504x550x74.0
1981 Apr 20		reentered

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Ohzora

 1984-015A

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The EXOS-C satellite was dedicated to studies of the straosphere and mesosphere. It was named Ohzora (`Sky') once reaching orbit. Mass of EXOS C was 207 kg. Size is 0.88m high 0.94m dia octagon with 4 panels span 2.8m. 

The launch took off towards a 58 degree inclination but then made dog-legs to the south to increase the inclination to a final 71.4 deg.

The M-3S-4 third stage had an improved M-3A4 motor with a new propellant mix. It burned for an unexpectedly long time and with lower performance than planned, and had residual thrust that could have caused a collision after payload separation. The separation sequence of later launches was modified to use a 2m/s separation velocity, twice the previous.

Stage 3 1313f 150 em Isp was now 289s, thrust 63.3 kN, burn time 52s (or 60s?) dv = 2834 ln 1520.4/357.4 = 4103m/s

Ohzora
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1984 Feb 14	0800	Launch by Mu 3S M-3S-4	KASC
		T+0:09 SB sep
		T+1:24 B1 sep	-6235 x 98 x 58.60
		T+1:26 B2 burn
		T+3:11? B2 burnout	-5441 x 361 x 71.41
		T+3:11 B2 orbit epoch
		T+4:01 Spinup
		T+6:16 Stage 2 sep
		T+6:20 M3A4 burn
	0807	T+7:20 M3A4 burnout
	0808	T+8:10 Stage 3 sep	96.9 354 x 865 x 74.6
	0808	T+8:15 Stage 3 collides with payload?
1986 Nov		Cataloged 15D,E	(328 x 597 x 74.6)
1987 Sep		End of ops with BUV
1989 Jul 19		Reentered	154 x 172 x 74.6

Payload:

• BUV backscatter UV spectrometer and 4100A albedo radiometer

• Electron,proton,alpha monitor

• Limb scanning IR radiometer

• Precipitating particle energies

• IR solar spectrometer

• Topside plasma sounder

• Solar horizon image radiometer

Apollo AS-201

  1966-U04

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Apollo SC009 was launched on 1966 Feb 26 at 1612 aboard Saturn 201 (AS-201). It separated from S-IVB-201 at 1622 and reached apogee at 500 km. At 1632 it ignited the SPS engine for 3 min 4 sec, followed by another 10s burn at 1635, accelerating the spacecraft to lunar reentry speeds. CM-009 then seperated from the SM-009 service module. It reentered the atmosphere at 8.1 km/s and splashed down at 1651 in the Atlantic having travelled 9000 km. It was recovered by the USS Boxer.

AS-201
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1966 Feb 26	1612:01	Launch by Saturn IB
	1614:22	OECO (2:21)
	1614:28	IECO (2:27)
	1614:29	SIB sep	-6145 x 107 x 30.8
	1614:30	S4B burn for 7:33
	1614?	Camera pods (2) ejected from SIB
	1614:40	Ullage case jettison
	1614:54	LES sep
	1616:12	SIB apogee
	1620:53	SIB impact, range 465 km at 27.3N 76.0W
	1622:04	S4B cutoff 261km	-2163 x 493 x 31.9
	1622:05	LH2 vent on
	1623:04	Begin sep sequence
	1623:28	LES impact 27.09N 75.26W range 546 km
	1623:34	LOX vent on
	1624:04	LOX vent off
	1624:04	LH2 vent off
	1626:06	CSM sep 435 km	-2151 x 493 x 31.9
	1626:07	+X RCS 18s
	1630:05	S4B apogee, 492.8 km
	1631:42		-2149 x 492 x 31.9
	1632:11	SPS 1 burn 180s
	1633:16	SPS-1 MECO 7.787km/s -9 deg 320 km	-625? x 1525? x 31
	1635:30	SPS 2 burn
	1635:40	SPS-2 MECO 295 km	-565 x 1674 x 30.7
	1636:16	SM sep
	1638:06	T+26:05 122 km Reentry 8.07 km/s
	1640:27	S4B LOS, 107km
	1640:46	SM impact at 6.93S 13.3W range 8217 km
	1642:54	Drogue parachute out
	1643:57	S4B impact at 9.66S 10.08W, range 8662 km
	1649:20	Splashdown in Atlantic 8.18S 11.15W
	1725	Recovered by USS Boxer

Kosmos 526

 1972-084A

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Kosmos-526 (DS-P1-Yu No. 61) was the last of the three Oct 1972 launches of DS-P1-Yu subgroup 1 satellites.

Kosmos-526
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1972 Oct 25	1040	Launch by 11K63	PL
	1042	Stage 2 burn
	1047?	Stage 2 sep
1972 Oct 26	0230		92.15 273 x 486 x 71.0 (RAE)
1973 Jan 16	1200		91.26 256 x 418 x 71.0 (RAE)
1973 Feb 15		End of ops
1973 Apr 8		Reentered

Kosmos 1303

 1981-086A

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Two-tone telemetry; Medium res satellite

Kosmos-1303
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1981 Sep 4	0800	Launch by Soyuz-U	Baikonur
	0804	Blok-I burn
	0808	Blok-I sep
1981 Sep 4			90.23 207x364x70.4
1981 Sep 5			92.30 360x416x70.4
1981 Sep 5			92.34 361x417x70.4
1981 Sep 12			92.32 361x416x70.4
1981 Sep 18
	0512?	Deorbit
	0520?	PO sep
	0540?	Entry
	0553?	Landed

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Corona 103

 1965-102A

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KH-4A Mission 1027 (CORONA 103) was launched on 1965 Dec 9 by TAT Agena D from Vandenberg. The vehicle carried camera system JX-27, the modified MURAL M-27 upgraded to a J-1. Both SRVs were recovered but each mission lasted a single day because of attitude control problems on the Agena. Control gas was exhausted on rev 15, with the photo mission terminated at that point. It had the last few pan frames of 1027-1 and the stellar index material for mission 1027-2. 20 of 46 targets observed by mission 1027 were judged to be good. Data on the USSR, Africa and South America was obtained.

KH-4A Mission 1027
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1965 Dec 9	2110:19	Launch by Thor SLV-2A Agena D	V SLC2 Pad 5
	2111:24	Castor sep (T+1:05)
	2112:49	Thor MECO (T+2:30)
	2112:58	Thor VECO (T+2:39)
	2113:04	Thor sep (T+2:45)
	2113:10	Agena burn (T+2:51)
	2117:11	Agena MECO (T+6:52)	90.84 183 x 452 x 80.06 (VCR)
	2117?	Stabilization system malfunction
1965 Dec 10		Control gas exhausted
1965 Dec 10	1430		90.72 183 x 437 x 80.0 (RAE)
1965 Dec 10	2300??	SRV-1 ejected rev 17 using Lifeboat system
1965 Dec 10		SRV-1 recovered
		22 22N 151 50W
1965 Dec 11	2300??	SRV-2 ejected rev 33
	SRV-2 recovered
1965 Dec 15			90.5 181 x 421 x 80.0 (SSR)
1965 Dec 26	1550?	Reentered

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GEOS-3

 1975-027A

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The Geos 3 satellite was a follow on to the Geodetic Explorers, Geos 1 and 2. However, its acronym was given a different expansion (Geodynamics Experimental Ocean Satellite) and at the time of launch it was not identified as part of the Explorer series, so programmatically it is somewhat anomalous. It bridged the National Geodetic Satellite Program and NASA's later Earth Science efforts, under the EODAP (Earth and Ocean Dynamics Applications Program).

The Geodynamics Experimental Ocean Satellite, Geos C before launch and Geos 3 after launch, was the first mission to carry out a global altimetry survey of the oceans, and the Geos 3 database was a key tool for geophysicists for over a decade. The altimetry was championed by NOAA's John Apel, who later helped design the Seasat mission. Later missions which expanded on the Geos 3 results were NASA's Seasat and the US Navy's Geosat. Geos 3 was built by the Applied Physics Lab and was similar in structure to Geos 1 and 2. The program was managed by NASA's Wallops Center.

Geos 3 has a 6m gravity boom. 340 kg mass.

Geos 3 was launched at 2358 on 1975 Apr 9 by a two stage Delta 1410 (some sources incorrectly give 2410) rocket into a 101.8 min, 839 x 853 km x 115.0 deg retrograde orbit. The altimeter system operated until 1978 Dec, and the satellite transmitted until May 1981.

Geos 3
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1975 Apr 9	2358:02	Launch by Delta 1410	V
		T+0:38? SRM 1-4 burnout
1975 Apr 10	0000	T+2:00 SRM 1-4 sep, 26 km
	0002	T+4:29 MECO 96 km
	0002	T+4:40 St 1 sep
		T+4:45 SES-1
	0003	T+5:05 Fairing sep
	0007	T+9:36 SECO-1 185 km 7.854 km/s
	0055:01	T+56:59 SES-2 842 km 7.140 km/s
	0055:08	T+57:06 SECO-2 7.314km/s
	0056:23	T+58:21 St 2 sep	101.8 839 x 853 x 115.0
1975 Apr 10	0457	Boom extended 0.8m
1975 Apr 12	0242	Boom extended to 6.5m
1975 Apr 16		First ATS-6 tracking pass
1978 Dec		Altimeter end of ops
1981 May		end of tx

Payload:

• Radar altimeter system (5 m ocean surface heights)

• S-band tracking system (also used with ATS6 for sat-sat tracking expt)

• C-band system (for radar calibration)

• Laser reflectors (MIT-LL)

• USN Doppler geodetic system

Kosmos 1607

 1984-112A

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Kosmos-1607
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1984 Oct 31	1229	Launch by Tsiklon-2	Baikonur
	1231	Stage 1 sep
	1233	Stage 2 sep	-800? x 265 x 65
	1243?	DU burn
	1253?	Stage 2 reentry
1984 Oct 31			247x270x65
1984 Nov 1			252x265x65.0
1985 Feb 1	1132?	orbit raised	261 x 913
	1218?	Orbit circ
1985 Feb 1			910 x 996 x 65.0

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Solwind

 1979-017A

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Space Test Program satellite P78-1 was launched on 1979 Feb 24 by Atlas F from Vandenberg and inserted into a 600 km polar orbit using a Fairchild OIS (Orbit Insertion System) upper stage. The satellite was often known by the name of one of its primary experiments, SOLWIND, which was a Naval Research Lab solar coronagraph. The SOLWIND coronagraph, in addition to studying the Sun, serendipitously discovered several comets.

P78-1 was built from the OSO-7 backup spacecraft. Size was 2.75m long 1.83m dia. According to a prelaunch Fairchild paper on the OIS, launch mass of the satellite was 925 kg; other sources give 875 kg.

The OIS had a Stage 0 adpater cylinder similar to the PTS/SVS, with a mass of 57 kg; a small Star 27 motor in a truncated conical shell 0.98m long 0.4 to 1.3m dia carrying the spin system. The motor was 363 kg and the shell was 140 kg. Nominal OIS delta-V was 787 m/s from a -1705 x 592 km x 97.7 deg transfer orbit.

On 1985 Sep 13, the satellite, which was still operating well, was destroyed by a US Air Force antisatellite weapon as a test.

P78-1
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1979 Feb 24	0820	Launch by Atlas F/OIS	V
		T+2m? Booster sep
		T+5m? Atlas SECO
		256 km, 7.190 km/s, 8.14 deg	-1727 x 590 x 97.7
	0826	T+6m? Atlas sep from OIS	-1705 x 592 x 97.7
		-1900 x 600 x 97.7
1979 Feb 24	0830?	Star 27 burn
	0831?	Star 27 burnout	96.4 563 x 602 x 97.7
	0834?	Star 27 sep
	0835?	Despin weights sep
1985 Sep 13		Destroyed by USAF ASAT, end of tx
1986 Jul 2		1979-17JD cataloged
1986 Jul 25		1979-17JF-JH cataloged
1986 Nov		1979-17JJ-JS cataloged
1987 Nov		1979-17 LG-LJ cataloged
1988 Aug		1979-17LZ cataloged
1992 Jul 20		1979-17A reentered

Payload:

• DARPA-301 Gamma ray spectrometer (trapped radiation, solar and atmospheric gamma)

• SOLWIND NRL-401 EUV and white light coronagraph/heliograph

• CRLS-229 Solar X-ray spectrometer/spectroheliograph 3-25A, 20 arcsec res. (Aerospace/NRL/Landecker)

  • SOLEX A,B NRL/Aerospace solar flare XR Bragg spectrometer, NRL-128 3-25A

  • MONEX NRL/Aerospace all sky X-ray monitor; auroral X-rays; NRL-601

• NRL-126 X-ray Spectroheliograph

• ECOM-721 UCB EUV airglow spectrometer 350-1400A, US Army sponsor

• ONR-601 Preliminary aerosol monitor

• CRL-251 High latitude particle spectrometer

Kosmos 1993

 1989-007A

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Kosmos-1993
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1989 Jan 28	1230	Launch by Soyuz	KB
	1239?	Blok I sep
1989 Jan 28.5			89.73 173x349x64.7
1989 Jan 29			89.75 171x353x64.7
1989 Feb 5			89.57 168x338x64.7
1989 Feb 14			89.67 181x336x64.7 from 88.59 151x258
1989 Feb 18	0603?	SpK-1 fiducial
1989 Feb 22			89.81 183x347x64.7
1989 Mar 3			89.69 192x326x64.7 from 89.13 171x292
1989 Mar 10		SpK-2 fiducial
1989 Mar 14			89.02 164x289x64.7
1989 Mar 17			89.67 181x335x64.7 from 88.65 158x258
1989 Mar 21			89.28 171x307x64.7 from 88.88 164x275
1989 Mar 25			89.18 167x302x64.7 from 88.71 161x260
1989 Mar 26			88.89 161x278x64.71
1989 Mar 27
	1824?	Deorbit
	1850?	Landed