Progress orbit and manoeuvres

Agapov Vladimir (avm@kiam1.rssi.ru)
Wed, 20 Nov 1996 04:39:32 +0300

Progress M-33 was successfully launched at 23:20:38.104 UTC.

EFG after processing of trajectory measurements on 1st and 2nd orbits:

Orbit 2
20/11/1996
00:37:59.954 UTC
 6491.40816 km
-1121.19795 km
    0.00000 km
 0.704812441 km/s
 4.28989898 km/s
 6.10528816 km/s

nodal period    -  1h 28min 38.570 s
semimaj. axis   - 6595.5333 km
eccentr.        - 0.004733894
incl.           - 51.6655 deg
arg. of perig.  - 75.39722 deg
RAAN (B1950)    - 59.2684 deg
Hmin            - 192.087 km
Hmax            - 252.368 km

Nominal parameters of manoeuvres and nominal state vectors at MECO #1
and MECO #2

1st burn
02:29:06 UTC
21.62 m/s
52.65 s

Vector at MECO #1
Orbit 3
20/11/1996
02:59:58.6452 UTC
-5.439667 km
 2.023059 km
-3.159132 km
 0.678168 km/s
-5.662330 km/s
-4.848236 km/s

2nd burn
03:47:59 UTC
18.97 m/s
45.88 s

Vector at MECO #2
Orbit 4
20/11/1996
03:48:44.8769 UTC
 4.893667 km
-1.659770 km
 4.160508 km
-0.946513 km/s
 6.454054 km/s
 3.634797 km/s

All the best,
 Vladimir Agapov.