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Credit - Yuzhnoye
Class: Technology. Type: Navigation. Destination: Maximum Payload Orbit. Nation: Ukraine. Agency: MO SSSR. Manufacturer: Yuzhnoye.

Carried military experiments to test communications and navigation equipment needed for command and control of Soviet nuclear forces (later used on the Uragan navigation satellites). Also conducted operational monitoring of cosmic rays, radiation from nuclear tests, and natural and artificially-produced radiation belts.

Typical orbit: 233 x 966 km, 48.8 deg inclinaton. Mass: 30 kg (66 lb).

DS-A1 Chronology
  • 1962 October 20 - Cosmos 11 - Program: DS. Launch Site: Kapustin Yar. Launch Complex: Mayak-2. Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 2. Mass: 315 kg (694 lb). Perigee: 240 km (140 mi). Apogee: 858 km (533 mi). Inclination: 48.90 deg. Period: 95.60 min.
    Carried military experiments to test communications and navigation equipment needed for command and control of Soviet nuclear forces (later used on the Uragan navigation satellites). Also conducted operational monitoring of cosmic rays, radiation from nuclear tests, and natural and artifically-produced radiation belts.

  • 1963 May 22 - Cosmos 17 - Program: DS. Launch Site: Kapustin Yar. Launch Complex: Mayak-2. Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 2. Mass: 322 kg (709 lb). Perigee: 251 km (155 mi). Apogee: 658 km (408 mi). Inclination: 48.90 deg. Period: 93.70 min.
    Carried military experiments to test communications and navigation equipment needed for command and control of Soviet nuclear forces (later used on the Uragan navigation satellites). Also conducted operational monitoring of cosmic rays, radiation from nuclear tests, and natural and artifically-produced radiation belts.

  • 1963 August 22 - DS-A1 s/n 3 - Program: DS. Launch Site: Kapustin Yar. Launch Complex: Mayak-2. Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 2. FAILURE: First stage failed.
    Carried military experiments to test communications and navigation equipment needed for command and control of Soviet nuclear forces (later used on the Uragan navigation satellites). Also conducted operational monitoring of cosmic rays, radiation from nuclear tests, and natural and artifically-produced radiation belts.

  • 1963 October 24 - DS-A1 s/n 4 - Program: DS. Launch Site: Kapustin Yar. Launch Complex: Mayak-2. Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 2. FAILURE: Second stage failed 353 seconds after launch.
    Carried military experiments to test communications and navigation equipment needed for command and control of Soviet nuclear forces (later used on the Uragan navigation satellites). Also conducted operational monitoring of cosmic rays, radiation from nuclear tests, and natural and artifically-produced radiation belts.

  • 1965 January 30 - Cosmos 53 - Program: DS. Launch Site: Kapustin Yar. Launch Complex: LC86/1. Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 2. Mass: 310 kg (680 lb). Perigee: 221 km (137 mi). Apogee: 1,172 km (728 mi). Inclination: 48.70 deg. Period: 98.70 min.
    Carried military experiments to test communications and navigation equipment needed for command and control of Soviet nuclear forces (later used on the Uragan navigation satellites). Also conducted operational monitoring of cosmic rays, radiation from nuclear tests, and natural and artifically-produced radiation belts.

  • 1965 February 20 - DS-A1 s/n 6 - Program: DS. Launch Site: Kapustin Yar. Launch Complex: LC86/1. Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 2. FAILURE: First stage failed 64 seconds after launch.
    Carried military experiments to test communications and navigation equipment needed for command and control of Soviet nuclear forces (later used on the Uragan navigation satellites). Also conducted operational monitoring of cosmic rays, radiation from nuclear tests, and natural and artifically-produced radiation belts.

  • 1965 July 2 - Cosmos 70 - Program: DS. Launch Site: Kapustin Yar. Launch Complex: LC86/1. Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 2. Mass: 250 kg (550 lb). Perigee: 223 km (138 mi). Apogee: 1,176 km (730 mi). Inclination: 48.80 deg. Period: 98.80 min.
    Carried military experiments to test communications and navigation equipment needed for command and control of Soviet nuclear forces (later used on the Uragan navigation satellites). Also conducted operational monitoring of cosmic rays, radiation from nuclear tests, and natural and artifically-produced radiation belts.

Bibliography:

  • McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page (launch records), Harvard University, 1997-present. Web Address when accessed: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.
  • JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Web Address when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html.
  • Agapov, V, Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "K zapusku pervovo ISZ serii 'DS'", 1997, Issue 6.
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