DS-MG

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Class: Technology. Destination: Maximum Payload Orbit. Nation: Ukraine. Agency: MO SSSR. Manufacturer: Yuzhnoye.

Payload developed by VNIIEM to test electric gyrodyne orientation systems. Also studied magnetosphere of the earth.

Typical orbit: 264 x 424 km, 48.9 deg inclinaton. Mass: 360 kg (790 lb). Associated Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 63S1.

DS-MG Chronology

1964 March 18 - Cosmos 26 - Program: DS. Launch Site: Kapustin Yar. Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 63S1. Mass: 365 kg (804 lb). Perigee: 268 km (166 mi). Apogee: 376 km (233 mi). Inclination: 48.90 deg. Period: 91.00 min.
Payload developed by VNIIEM to test electric gyrodyne orientation systems. Also obtained radiation data.

1964 October 24 - Cosmos 49 - Program: DS. Launch Site: Kapustin Yar. Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 63S1. Mass: 355 kg (782 lb). Perigee: 260 km (160 mi). Apogee: 472 km (293 mi). Inclination: 48.90 deg. Period: 91.90 min.
Payload developed by VNIIEM to test electric gyrodyne orientation systems. Also studied measured Earth infrared and ultraviolet flux.

Bibliography and Further Reading

USAF Satellite Database, USAF Institute of Technology, 1995. Accessed at: ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/.

McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page, Harvard University, 1997-present. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited and over 20,000 rocket launches Accessed at: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.

Krebs, Gunter, Gunter's Space Page, University of Frankfurt, 1996. Accessed at: http://www.skyrocket.de/space.

JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Accessed at: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html.

Agapov, V, Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "K zapusku pervovo ISZ serii 'DS'", 1997, Issue 6.

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