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Class: Materials. Nation: USSR. Launched from Salyut 7 airlock. Conduct of experiments in the field of amateur radiocommunications.
SpecificationTotal Mass: 28 kg.
Iskra Chronology
10 July 1981
Iskra Launch Site: Baikonur . Launch Vehicle: Soyuz 11A511U. Launched from Salyut 7 airlock. Conduct of scientific experiments to study diffusion and heat processes in weightlessness.
19 April 1982
Iskra 2 Program: Salyut. Launch Site: Baikonur . Launch Vehicle: Proton 8K82K. Mass: 28 kg. Perigee: 336 km. Apogee: 345 km. Inclination: 51.6 deg. Deployed from Salyut 7 5/17/82. Launched from Salyut 7. Experiments in amateur radio communications. Launched into orbit from aboard the Salyut-7 orbital scientific station.
18 November 1982
Iskra 3 Program: Salyut. Launch Site: Baikonur . Launch Vehicle: Soyuz 11A511U. Perigee: 349 km. Apogee: 356 km. Inclination: 51.6 deg. Launched from Salyut 7 airlock. Conduct of experiments in the field of amateur radiocommunications.
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
- 67 - Kaesmann, Ferdinand, et. al., Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, "Proton - Development of A Russian Launch Vehicle", 1998, Volume 51, page 3.
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