ESSA 5

  1967-036A

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ESSA V was another global weather monitoring satellite with an AVCS camera system. Launched from Vandenberg on 1967 Apr 20, it entered a 1361 x 1423 km x 102.0 deg orbit and replaced ESSA III. It transmitted until 1970 Feb 20.

ESSA 5
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1967 Apr 20	1121:10	Launch by Delta E	V SLC2E
		T+0:43 SRM out
		T+1:10 SRM sep
	1123:42	T+2:32 Thor S/N 20215 MECO
		T+2:34 Thor sep
	1123	T+2:34 Delta S/N 20214 burn 6:11
		T+2:38 Fairing sep
	1129:59	T+8:49 Delta SECO V=5.87 km/s
	1139:33	T+18:23 X-258C4 RH141 burn 23s
	1139:56	T+18:46 X-258 burnout	1361 x 1423 x 102.0
	1141:18	T+20:08 X-258 sep
1967 Apr 24		Cameras on
1967 May 8		To ESSA,replaced ESSA 3
1970 Feb 20		end of tx

Progress M-4

 1990-072A

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Progress M 11F615A55 No. 204 (Progress M-4) was launched in Aug 1990. It docked with Mir on Aug 17 delivering 2689 kg of cargo. After undocking on Sep 18 it carried out the Fokus plasma gun experiment injecting plasma into the ionosphere. One debris object was cataloged prior to reentry, possibly related to Fokus. 

Progress M-4
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1990 Aug 15	0400:38	Launch by Soyuz-U	KB
	0405	Blok-I burn
	0409	Blok-I sep
	0840		88.52 183 x 219 x 51.61
	1200		89.70 249 x 269 x 51.60
1990 Aug 16	0700		89.73 250 x 271 x 51.61
1990 Aug 17	0230		89.71 249 x 270 x 51.61
	0526:18	Docked with Mir DP1
1990 Aug 18	1000		92.03 367 x 380 x 51.61
1990 Sep 17	1242:43	Undocked
1990 Sep 18	0500		92.37 373 x 407 x 51.61
	0620	Fokus plasma source release
1990 Sep 19	1730	Object 72C tracked
1990 Sep 20	1105	Retrofire
	1142:49	Reentered over Pacific

Kosmos 1008

 1978-049A

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This was the third Tselina-OK satellite.

Kosmos-1008
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1978 May 17	1439	Launch by 11K65M	Plesetsk
	1441	S3 burn
	1447?	T+8m? S3 MECO-1
	1512?	T+33m? S3 MES-2
	1512?	S3 sep
1978 May 17			95.1 499x549x74.0
1981 Jan 8		reentered

Meteor-1 18

  1974-052A

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Meteor 11F614M No. 24 was launched on 1974 Jul 9. It was a prototype of the new Meteor-Priroda series. The satellite was later given the designation Meteor-Priroda 11F651 No. 1. It was the second mission to carry a low thrust plasma engine. 

Meteor-Priroda No. 1
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1974 Jul 9	1440	Launch by Vostok 8A92M	PL
	1444?	Blok E burn
	1450?	Blok E sep
			102.6 865 x 893 x 81.2
1975 Nov			103.1 890 x 918 x 81.2
1976 Oct 28		end of ops

Kosmos 305

  1969-092

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Kosmos-305 (E-8-5 No. 404) suffered the same fate as Kosmos-300 in the following month's launch window. Various reports claimed that the Blok-D disintegrated or that the payload may have entered a high orbit, but the modern consensus seems to be that the second burn was cut short and occurred at the wrong orientation, with rapid reentry of the payload and Blok-D.

Kosmos-305
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1969 Oct 22	1409:59	Launch by Proton-K	KB LC81
	1412?	Stage 2 burn
	1415?	Stage 3 burn
	1419	Stage 3 sep	-800? x 210 x 51.5
	1425?	Blok-D burn 1
	1427?	Blok-D cutoff 1, parking orbit	182 x 210 x 51.5?
	1436?	Stage 3 reentry
	1520?	Blok-D burn 2
	1520?	SOZ burn
	1520?	SOZ sep (92A/B)
	1530?	Blok-D MECO?	70? x 187? x 51.5
	1615	Reentry over Australia?

Weather of U.S. cities: a guide to the weather histories of 268 key cities and weather observation stations in the United States and its island territories

 https://welib.org/md5/c416bbd233cbf9d1a474a5de4fe5408c

IRS-1A

 1988-021A

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IRS-1A took off from Baikonur aboard a Vostok 8A92M on a southbond trajectory to polar sun-synchronous orbit.

IRS-1A
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1988 Mar 17	0643:30	Launch by Vostok 8A92M	KB LC31
	0645:30	Blok-BVGD sep (T+2:00)
	0646:30	Fairing sep (T+3:00), 160 km
	0648:40	Blok-A cutoff, Blok-E burn (T+5:10)
	0654:30	Blok-E cutoff (T+11:00)
	0654:40	Payload release (T+11:10)
			102.82 870 x 914 x 99.0
1988 Apr 7		Complete orbit maneuvers
1991		Still operating
1995 Mar 17		On standby status

Payload:

• Radiometers

• LISS cameras - linear imaging self scanning CCD

• LISS 1: 72m res, 148 km swath, 4000-9000A in 4 bands

• LISS 2: 36m res, 74 km swath, 4000-9000A in 4 bands

Los Angeles: May 1997

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Social Education: April-May 1997

 https://welib.org/md5/46bf91b9bd81e30e6fd94fb68f242310

Soyuz 15 (Danube)

 1974-067A

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11F615A9 No. 63 (Soyuz-15) was launched on 1974 Aug 26, the second flight to Almaz OPS 2. The spacecraft made rendezvous with the space station the next day, but the docking was aborted. At 350 m range, the Igla system decided the range was actually 20 km and increased approach speed to 20 m/s - Soyuz rushed past the station, missing it by only 40 m. The automatic system repeated this close flyby twice more. Ground control shut down the system and the mission was returned early.

Soyuz-15
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1974 Aug 26	1958:05	Launch by Soyuz	KB
	2000	Blok BVGD sep
	2004	Blok A sep
	2006	Blok I MECO
	2006	Blok-I sep
			195 x 221 x 51.6
		Orbit raise	254 x 275 x 51.6
1974 Aug 27	1900?	Rendezvous with Salyut-3
		Flyby 1 at 40 m
		Flyby 2 at circa 40 m
		Flyby 3 at circa 40m
		Failed to dock
1974 Aug 28	1924	Retrofire	258 x 278x 51.6
	1927?	DO CO
	1940?	Modules sep
	1946?	Entry	-103? x 258 x 51.6
	2010:16	Landed 48 km SW of Tselinograd

Kosmos 2001

 1989-011A

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Kosmos-2001
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1989 Feb 14	0421:11	Launch by 8K78M	Plesetsk
		BVGD sep
		GO sep
		T+4:46 Blok A sep
		T+4:56 KhO sep
		T+8:46 Blok-I MECO
	0430	T+8:50 Blok-I sep
		T+1:00? BOZ burn
	0521?	T+1:00? BOZ sep
		2BL burn
		2BL MECO
	0524?	T+1:03 2BL sep
1989 Feb 14			92.67 211x600x62.8
1989 Feb 15			708.5 617x39279x62.8

STS-60 (Discovery)

 1994-006A

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STS-60 was launched on 1994 Feb 3 at 1210 on a research mission to fly the Wake Shield Facility and carry out research in the Spacehab module on materials and bioprocessing. The original plan was to release the WSF into a 350 x 354 km orbit at 1400 on Feb 5, and rendezvous with it on Feb 7, retrieving it at 2010. However, problems with WSF attitude control aborted the deploy on two occasions, and it was used instead attached to the RMS arm.

The CAPL experiment showed that start-up of the capillary pumped loop thermal control system was much harder in orbit than on the ground, prompting a redesign of the system.

Six ODERACS calibration spheres and the German BREMSAT microsat were ejected from the GAS bridge during the mission.

STS-60 events
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1994 Jan 4		Tow to VAB
1994 Jan 10		Rollout	LC39A
1994 Feb 3	1210:00	Launch from LC39
	1212:05	SRB sep
	1218:33	MECO	88.74 66 x 357 x 57.0 (OMS dV)
	1218:52	ET sep
	1252:16	OMS-2 2:44 82m/s
	1255:00	OMS 2 CO	91.60 347 x 358 x 57.0
	1341	PLBD open
1994 Feb 4	0000		91.59 347 x 358 x 57.0
		RMS tests
1994 Feb 5	0944	Supply water dump
	1113:57	RMS grapple WSF
	1223:41	WSF unberth
		WSF deploy cancelled
	2058	RMS reberth WSF
	2103	Ungrapple
1994 Feb 6	1114	RMS grapple WSF
	1153	RMS unberth WSF
1994 Feb 7	1721	RMS reberth WSF	91.58 345 x 358 x 57.0
	1724	Ungrapple
	1724	Grapple
	2051	Unberth
1994 Feb 8	1159	Berth
	1434	Unberth
1994 Feb 9	0657		91.58 345 x 358 x 57.0
	1218	Berth
	1245	Ungrapple WSF
	1453:24	ODERACS deploy sequence initiated
	1454:23	ODERACS-A (10cm) deploy
	1454:25	ODERACS B (10cm) deploy
	1454:28	ODERACS C (5 cm) deploy
	1454:30	ODERACS D (5 cm) deploy
	1454:35	ODERACS E (15cm) deploy
	1454:37	ODERACS F (15cm) deploy
	1923:19	BREMSAT deploy
1994 Feb 10	0700		91.62 349 x 358 x 57.0
1994 Feb 11	1409	PLBD closed	91.63 349 x 358 x 57.0
	1814:50	OMS DO (3:54) 124m/s
	1818:45	OMS DO CO	87.39 -67 x 358 x 57.0
	1847:51	Entry interface
	1919:22	Landed KSC RW15
	1919:35	Chute
	1919:43	NGTD
	1919:57	Chute sep
	1920:14	Wheels stop
	2245	Tow to OPF/3

Club Management: March-April 1997

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Bride’s: February-March 1997

 https://welib.org/md5/1d62dc273f4f51eb7865cb4ef7090065

On The Nature Of Things

 https://gutenberg.org/files/785/785-0.txt

Governor's race : a TV reporter's chronicle of the 1993 Florio/Whitman campaign

 https://welib.org/md5/29dd824c297aee60e5e89dc24f4dce3b

Morelos 1

 1985-048B

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The Morelos 1 satellite was owned by Mexico's Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT). The satellite was deployed with its PAM-D upper stage from Space Shuttle Discovery in Jun 1985.

Morelos 1
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1985 Jun 17	1938	Deploy
	2023	PAM-D burn
	2024	PAM-D cutoff
	2026	PAM-D sep
1985 Jun 17			635.90 375 x 35859 x 25.4
1985 Jun 18			645.76 818 x 35921 x 23.3
1985 Jun 18	2316	Star 30BP burn
			1315.71 30860 x 35932 x 0.0 GEO 172.7W+33.0E
1985 Jun 20		lower orbit	1432.79 35499 x 35943 x 0.2 GEO 112.9W+0.8E
1985 Jun 21			1436.38 35782 x 35801 x 0.1 GEO 113.3W+0.08W
1985 Jun 29			1436.10 35779 x 35793 x 0.1 GEO 113.5W+0.0W
1986 Oct 1			1436.07 35776 x 35796 x 0.0 GEO 113.4W+0.0W
1989 Jan 30			1436.08 35776 x 35796 x 0.0 GEO 113.6W
1990 May 13			1436.07 35769 x 35802 x 0.0 GEO 113.4W
1992 Jun 13			1436.09 35776 x 35796 x 0.0 GEO 113.5W
1994 Feb 27			1436.06 35779 x 35792 x 0.1 GEO 113.4W

Sunset Fling

https://welib.org/md5/5c3097041b6da97f7dd25b87b951f072

Crystal 6

 1984-122A

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CRYSTAL 6 was launched into a late afternoon 0941 LTDN west-plane sun-synchronous orbit. The higher apogee of this mission reflected the KENNEN system's takeover of the HEXAGON's wide area search mission in addition to the core KH-11 close-look capability. D. Day notes that the search mission is performed at apogee and in a sun-synchronous orbit the orbital plane would be 180 degrees from a high resolution mission looking at the same target at perigee.

CRYSTAL 6
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1984 Dec 4	1803	Launch by Titan 34D	V SLC4E
	1804	Core engines on (T+1:47)
	1804	SRM jettison (T+1:56) at 39 km
	1807?	T+4min? Stage 1 sep
	1807?	Stage 2 ignition (T+4:33?)
	1807?	Fairing off (T+4:46?)
	1810?	Stage 2 cutoff (T+7:58?)
	1811?	Stage 2 sep (T+8:08?)
1984 Dec 4			93.5 300x650x97.1
1989 May 6			96.55 302x884x97.8
1989 Aug 1			96.08 298x843x97.8
1989 Aug 14			96.53 352x832x97.9
1989 Aug 18			96.51 349x834x97.8
1989 Aug 22			96.50 345x837x97.8
1990 Mar 31			95.78 376x736x97.63 (Molczan CSS1731)
1990 Apr 2			95.81 340x775x97.8
1990 Jun 3			95.60 336x758x97.7 (CSS2333)
1990 Oct 9			336x732x97.8
1990 Nov 12			559x732 from 336x732
1991 May 25			97.51 552x726x97.8 (CSS)
1991 Jul 9			97.23 541x711x97.8 (CSS)
1992 Oct 7			97.39 561 x 705 x 97.8
1993 Jul 14			97.36 542 x 722 x 97.8
1994 Oct 13			97.34 544 x 718 x 97.9
1996 Feb 22		Reentered

Kosmos 1875

 1987-074A

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Kosmos-1875 was the first satellite of the fourth Strela-3 launch.

Kosmos-1875
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1987 Sep 7	2350:09	Launch by Tsiklon-3	PL
		T+2:00 St 1 sep
		T+3:33 GO sep
		T+4:38 St 2 sep
		T+6:00 S5M burn 1 96s
	2357	T+7:36 S5M MECO-1	-200? x 1300 x 82.6
1987 Sep 8	0032?	T+41:50 S5M burn 2 25s
		T+42:10 S5M low thrust
		T+42:43 S5M sep first KA
	0034?	T+44:09 S5M sep last KA
1987 Sep 25			113.72 1372x1423x82.5