Progress M-37 launched

Agapov Vladimir (avm@kiam1.rssi.ru)
Sat, 20 Dec 1997 12:45:49 +0300 (MSK)

Progress M-37 was successfully launched at 08:45:01.972 UTC on Dec 20.
It had separated from the 3rd stage at 08:53:51.5 and entered an orbit
with following parameters:

Nodal period, min    88.6287
Inclination, deg     51.6188
Hmin, km             193.2
Hmax, km             249.5
RAAN 1950.0, deg     230.3342

EFG vector (after determination on 1st orbit)

Date          1997/12/20
Time, UTC     08:33:44.410
X, km         6425.28916
Y, km         1444.03870
Z, km        -0.00000018
Vx, km/s     -0.986686988
Vy, km/s      4.24039903
Vz, km/s      6.10283830

Best regards,

Vladimir Agapov.

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