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Class: Earth. Type: Atmosphere. Nation: USSR. Launched from Mir airlock. Investigation of features at the Earth's atmosphere.
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Mak Chronology
17 June 1991
Mak 1 Program: Mir. Launch Site: Baikonur . Launch Vehicle: Proton 8K82K. Perigee: 377 km. Apogee: 389 km. Inclination: 51.6 deg. Deployed from MIR 6/17/91. Launched from Mir airlock. Investigation of features at the Earth's atmosphere. Launched with the Mir orbital station.
20 November 1992
Mak 2 Program: Mir. Launch Site: Baikonur . Launch Vehicle: Soyuz 11A511U2. Perigee: 394 km. Apogee: 398 km. Inclination: 51.6 deg. Deployed from MIR on 11/20/92. Launched from Mir airlock. Conduct of experiments to study physical processes in the Earth's ionosphere. Small satellite launched from the Mir station.
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
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