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Class: Technology. Nation: USSR. Manufacturer: KBYu. Development tests of atomic clocks.
SpecificationTotal Mass: 260 kg.
DS-U2-M Chronology
26 November 1965
Cosmos 97 Program: DS. Launch Site: Kapustin Yar . Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 63S1M. Mass: 267 kg. Perigee: 214 km. Apogee: 2,144 km. Inclination: 48.4 deg. Investigation of the upper atmosphere and outer space.
03 March 1967
Cosmos 145 Program: DS. Launch Site: Kapustin Yar . Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 11K63. Mass: 250 kg. Perigee: 226 km. Apogee: 2,107 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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