Progress manoeuvres

Agapov Vladimir (avm@kiam1.rssi.ru)
Sat, 20 Dec 1997 14:18:34 +0300 (MSK)

First two of five manoeuvres of Progress are scheduled finally now:

      		1st manoeuvre  2nd manoeuvre
Orbit 		#3             #4
Date 		1997/12/20     1997/12/20
Time 		12:26:32 UTC   13:17:43 UTC
dV      	 26.74 m/s      23.3  m/s
Yaw  		340.94 deg      17.94 deg
Pitch		 -2.07 deg      -1.79 deg
Burn duration  	 65.1sec        56.3sec

Nominal EFG vectors after each manoeuvre are:

Date            1997/12/20      1997/12/20
Time, UTC       12:27:37.102    13:18:39.249
X, km          -5179.336        4290.516
Y, km            871.902         559.4346
Z, km          -4013.295        5036.937
Vx, km/s        1.949139       -2.711303
Vy, km/s       -6.099687        6.783228
Vz, km/s       -3.869071        1.520260

Launch mass of the Progress was 7195 kg.

Best regards,
   Vladimir Agapov.


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