DS-U2-D

DS-U2-D
Credit - Yuzhnoye

Class: Earth. Type: Magnetosphere. Destination: Maximum Payload Orbit. Nation: Ukraine. Agency: MO SSSR. Manufacturer: Yuzhnoye.

Studied charged particle flows.

Typical orbit: 217 km x 1732 km at 49 degrees inclination. Mass: 300 kg (660 lb). Associated Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 11K63, Kosmos 63S1.

DS-U2-D Chronology

1966 December 21 - Cosmos 137 - Program: DS. Launch Site: Kapustin Yar. Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 63S1. Mass: 295 kg (650 lb). Perigee: 219 km (136 mi). Apogee: 1,718 km (1,067 mi). Inclination: 48.80 deg. Period: 104.40 min.
Studied charged particle flows.

1968 April 26 - Cosmos 219 - Program: DS. Launch Site: Kapustin Yar. Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 11K63. Mass: 300 kg (660 lb). Perigee: 215 km (133 mi). Apogee: 1,745 km (1,084 mi). Inclination: 48.40 deg. Period: 104.60 min.
Studied charged particle flows.

Bibliography and Further Reading

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.

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

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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