re: KH 11-8, USA 86, 116
stu@huston.mdc.com
Tue, 4 Jun 96 13:31:59 PST
Walter Nissen wrote:
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>These are the only KH elsets in Ted Molczan's file last week:
>KH 9-17 ELINT 0.3 0.9 0.0 9.0
>1 13172U 82041 C 96 80.04925749 .00000180 00000-0 30389-4 0 01
>2 13172 95.9712 280.0823 0004000 68.2280 291.7718 14.69528737 09
>KH 9-19 ELINT 0.3 0.9 0.0 9.0
>1 15071U 84065 C 96 70.08899125 .00000160 00000-0 26244-4 0 03
>2 15071 95.9040 89.9195 0006000 5.8552 354.1446 14.70791019 01
>KH 11-8 15.0 3.0 0.0 4.6
>1 19625U 88099 A 96133.14429013 .00007300 00000-0 82214-4 0 07
>2 19625 97.9340 195.7250 0534000 239.4325 120.5673 14.74800988 09
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>22251 not present
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>USA 116 15.0 3.0 0.0 4.6
>1 23728U 95066 A 96142.99939185 .00000187 00000-0 12433-4 0 09
>2 23728 97.7611 253.4578 0427330 335.4015 24.5984 14.54455486 07
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>How can an ELINT be a KH?? Are we talking CCD here?
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>Cheers.
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>Walter Nissen dk058@cleveland.freenet.edu
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>Ignorance, the initial human condition, is little relieved by life.
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The KH-9/HEXAGON (Big Bird) KH-7/GAMBIT, and KH-4A/4B/CORONA spacecraft
deployed subsatellites which are presumed to gather ELINT. These are often
in relatively high orbits. Here's a list (I'm not sure about the names):
Intl Des Cat No Name Launch Decay Perigee
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1964 036B 826 KH 7-09 SUBSATELLITE 7/6/64 1/3/65 156
1964 045B 851 KH 7-10 SUBSATELLITE 8/14/64 3/8/79 272
1967 043B 2780 KH 4A-01 SUBSATELLITE 5/9/67 3/14/93 399
1967 062B 2851 KH 4A-02 SUBSATELLITE 6/16/67 10/22/68 501
1967 109B 3025 KH 4A-44 SUBSATELLITE 11/2/67 3/28/69 454
1968 008B 3114 KH 4A-45 SUBSATELLITE 1/24/68 3/4/70 470
1968 020B 3153 KH 4A-46 SUBSATELLITE 3/14/68 1/3/70 481
1968 052B 3297 KH 4A-47 SUBSATELLITE 6/20/68 1/11/70 435
1968 078B 3409 KH 4A-48 SUBSATELLITE 9/18/68 9/28/69 500
1968 112B 3605 KH 4A-49 SUBSATELLITE 12/12/68 1380
1969 010B 3673 KH 4B-06 SUBSATELLITE 2/5/69 1393
1969 026B 3830 KH 4A-50 SUBSATELLITE 3/19/69 12/6/71 502
1969 041B 3915 KH 4A-51 SUBSATELLITE 5/2/69 2/16/70 407
1969 079B 4103 KH 4A-52 SUBSATELLITE 9/22/69 5/16/71 490
1970 016B 4343 KH 4B-09 SUBSATELLITE 3/4/70 11/10/71 441
1970 098B 4722 KH 4B-12 SUBSATELLITE 11/18/70 9/14/77 493
1971 076B 5469 KH 4B-15 SUBSATELLITE 9/10/71 2/3/76 489
1972 002D 5772 KH 9-02 SUBSATELLITE 1/20/72 4/17/79 474
1972 052C 6096 KH 9-03 SUBSATELLITE 7/7/72 5/6/78 498
1972 079C 6822 KH 9-04 SUBSATELLITE 10/10/72 1420
1973 088D 6938 KH 9-07 SUBSATELLITE 11/10/73 1416
1974 085B 7498 KH 9-09 SUBSATELLITE 10/29/74 1/23/80 521
1975 114B 8468 KH 9-11 SUBSATELLITE 12/4/75 5/1/78 236
1976 065C 9008 KH 9-12 SUBSATELLITE 7/8/76 628
1978 029B 10734 KH 9-14 SUBSATELLITE 3/16/78 639
1979 025B 11306 KH 9-15 SUBSATELLITE 3/16/79 621
1980 052C 11852 KH 9-16 SUBSATELLITE 6/18/80 1331
1982 041C 13172 KH 9-17 SUBSATELLITE 5/11/82 660
1983 060C 14139 KH 9-18 SUBSATELLITE 6/20/83
1984 065C 15071 USA 3 (KH 9-19 SUBSAT) 6/25/84 655
Stu Huston
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