Re: Zenits and payloads

Rainer Kracht (0412188960-0001@t-online.de)
Fri, 10 Nov 95 18:08 +0100

>Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 20:39:22 -0500
>From: dk058@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Walter Nissen)
>Subject: Zenits and payloads

>I know (thanks to Allen Thomson, and see also his analyses of the very 
>peculiar orbital evolution of the 71 degree objects) that one of the 
>Zenits, perhaps it was C* 1714, suffered a sad fate; but except for that, 
>does this table contain all the Zenits?  I think I recently read of a 
>short-lived Zenit, perhaps in Jonathan's Space Report or on SeeSat-L. 


This is my list of Zenit 2 launches:


Table of Zenit 2 launches
-------------------------
 1985       Suborbital   13. 4.85                   Test
 1985-053A  Unannounced  21. 6.85  195 x 340  64.4  Test,    dec 28. 6.85
 1985-097A  Cosmos 1697  22.10.85  849 x 854  71.0  Elint
 1985-121A  Cosmos 1714  28.12.85  443 x 853  71.0  upper stage restart
                                                    failure, dec 27. 2.86

 1986-056A  Cosmos 1767  30. 7.86  197 x 205  64.9  Test,    dec 16. 8.86
 1986-080A  Cosmos 1786  22.10.86  190 x2565  64.9  Test,    dec  6. 3.88

 1987-016A  Cosmos 1820  14. 2.87  179 x 250  64.8  Test,    dec  6. 3.87
 1987-027A  Cosmos 1833  18. 3.87  846 x 852  71.0  Elint
 1987-041A  Cosmos 1844  13. 5.87  843 x 855  71.0  Elint
 1987-065A  Cosmos 1871   1. 8.87  177 x 199  97.0  Test,    dec 10. 8.87
 1987-071A  Cosmos 1873  28. 8.87  178 x 248  64.8  Test,    dec 14. 9.87

 1988-039A  Cosmos 1943  15. 5.88  843 x 852  71.0  Elint
 1988-102A  Cosmos 1980  23.11.88  845 x 853  71.0  Elint

 1990-046A  Cosmos 2082  22. 5.90  849 x 855  71.0  Elint
 1990                     4.10.90                   exploded seconds
                                                    after launch

 1991                    30. 8.91                   exploded seconds
                                                    after launch

 1992                     5. 2.92                   failed soon after launch
 1992-076A  Cosmos 2219  17.11.92  846 x 847  71.0  Elint
 1992-093A  Cosmos 2227  25.12.92  847 x 852  71.0  Elint
            second stage (93B) disintegrated on 26.12.92

 1993-016A  Cosmos 2237  26. 3.93  843 x 855  71.0  Elint 
            second stage (16B) disintegrated on 27. 3.93
 1993-059A  Cosmos 2263  16. 9.93  847 x 852  71.0  Elint

 1994-023A  Cosmos 2278  23. 4.94  847 x 853  71.0  Elint
 1994-053A  Cosmos 2290  26. 8.94  210 x 290  64.8  Recon
            second stage (53B) decayed on 13. 9.1994
 1994-074A  Resurs 1-3    4.11.94  658 x 661  98.0  Rem.sensing
 1994-077A  Cosmos 2297  24.11.94  847 x 852  71.0  Elint

 1995-058A  Cosmos 2322  31.10.95  847 x 850  71.0  Elint


Rainer Kracht
0412188960-0001@t-online.de