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Credit - Yuzhnoye
Class: Earth. Type: Ionosphere. Destination: Maximum Payload Orbit. Nation: Ukraine. Agency: IK. Manufacturer: Yuzhnoye.

Studies ionosphere of the earth; version used for Intercosmos international launches.

Design work began in April 1967. Adaptation of DS satellites by KB Yuzhnoye. For the Interkosmos modifications V F Chutkin was Chief Designer and First Assistant was V S Budnik. Investigation of the characteristics of the earth's ionosphere and of concentrations of electrons and positive ions.

Typical orbit: 201 x 911 km, 59.7 deg inclinaton. Mass: 330 kg (720 lb). Associated Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 11K63.

DS-U1-IK Chronology
  • 1965 April 15 - Interkosmos program authorised. -

    Central Committee of the Communist Party and Council of Soviet Ministers Decree 'On Co-operation of the USSR and Socialist Countries in the Sphere of Research and Use of Space-international co-operation' was issued.

  • 1967 April 1 - Design work begins on Interkosmos version of DS -

    For the Interkosmos modifications V F Chutkin was Chief Designer and First Assistant was V S Budnik. East European experiments studied protons, electrons, alpha particles.

  • 1969 December 25 - Intercosmos 2 - Program: DS. Launch Site: Kapustin Yar. Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 2. Mass: 320 kg (700 lb). Perigee: 200 km (120 mi). Apogee: 1,178 km (731 mi). Inclination: 48.40 deg. Period: 98.50 min.

    East European instruments carried to determine the characteristics of the earth's ionosphere and the concentrations of electrons and positive ions.

  • 1972 November 30 - Intercosmos 8 - Program: DS. Launch Site: Plesetsk. Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 2. Mass: 340 kg (740 lb). Perigee: 203 km (126 mi). Apogee: 645 km (400 mi). Inclination: 71.00 deg. Period: 93.10 min.

    Continued joint investigation of the characteristics of the earth's ionosphere and recording of electron and proton fluxes.

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.
  • Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "AUOSi prodolzhayut rabotu", 1995, Issue 21, page 43.
  • Siddiqi, Asif A, The Soviet Space Race With Apollo, University Press of Florida, 2003.
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