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Class: Earth. Type: Magnetosphere. Nation: USSR. Manufacturer: KBYu. Studied charged particle flows.
SpecificationTotal Mass: 300 kg.
DS-U2-D Chronology
21 December 1966
Cosmos 137 Program: DS. Launch Site: Kapustin Yar . Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 63S1. Mass: 295 kg. Perigee: 219 km. Apogee: 1,718 km. Inclination: 48.8 deg. Investigation of the upper atmosphere and outer space.
26 April 1968
Cosmos 219 Program: DS. Launch Site: Kapustin Yar . Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 11K63. Mass: 300 kg. Perigee: 215 km. Apogee: 1,745 km. Inclination: 48.4 deg. Investigation of the upper atmosphere and outer space.
Bibliography:- 2 - McDowell, Jonathan, The United Nations Registry of Space Objects, Harvard University, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/QEDT/jcm/space/un/un.html
- 6 - JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html
- 99 - Agapov, V, Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "K zapusku pervovo ISZ serii 'DS'", 1997, Issue 6.
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