EORSATs, KHs
Allen Thomson (thomsona@netcom.com)
Sun, 21 Apr 1996 15:36:22 -0700
The following appeared on sci.space.news, and, as it seemed
that two of the items might be of interest to SEESAT folk, I
submit them here.
Newsgroups: sci.space.news
Subject: Novosti Kosmonavtiki No. 26
Date: 17 Apr 1996 07:09:45 -0700
The attached is the summary of Novosti Kosmonavtiki No.26
which I submit for dissemination through sci.space.news.
Yours,
Igor Lissov
Deputy Chief Editor - Novosti Kosmonavtiki
VideoCosmos Co.
Novosti Kosmonavtiki -- Vol.5 No.26 Dec 17-31 1995
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(The following is a summary of the next-in-turn NK issue.
The summary was sent to the sci.space.news newsgroup and
to the Friends and Partners in Space list -
fpspace@solar.rtd.utk.edu or
fpspace@alice.ibpm.serpukhov.su.[)]
[much snippage]
- Kosmos 2326 was launched on 20-Dec-1995 by the 100th 11K69
'Tsiklon-2' vehicle. The satellite is a part of naval reconnaisance
system and now three satellites including 2293 and 2313 work in one
orbital plane. 2326 also carries 'Konus-A' secondary science payload
made in the A.F.Ioffe Physics and Technology Institute in St.Petersburg.
ITAR-TASS reported that some of 'Gektor' military observation
satellites also carried additional scientific payloads in 1969-1978.
(BTW, this is really the 100th orbital launch of 11K69 and all of
these were indeed successful. Of two reported failures, one occured
with 11K67 'Tsiklon-2A' launcher which is considered as different
vehicle and another one 'failure' appeared to be result of
misunderstanding.)
[snip]
- Maxim Tarasenko reports on state of US and Russian military
observation satellites. Kosmos 2305 was deorbited on 18-Dec-1995
ar 22:57 UTC and re-entered over South Pacific after 354 days
of operations. Only Kosmos 2320 electro-optical reconnaisance bird
serves now the Russian military. The U.S. operate three reconsats
whose data are as follows:
USA-33 USA-86 USA-116
1988-099A 1992-083A 1995-066A
06.11.88 28.11.92 06.12.95
i 97.82 97.85 97.87
Hp 281 287 270
Ha 1002 1021 980
P 97.56 97.44 96.88
AoP 334 90 111
RAAN 59 110 108
[more/mas/bol'she]
=== Novosti Kosmonavtiki ===
is a bi-weekly Russian-language newsletter of VideoCosmos Co.
in Moscow. It can be contacted by fax at 7-095-282-63-66 or by
e-mail at cosmos@space.accessnet.ru.