Cosmos 2388 MIA?

From: Allen Thomson (thomsona@flash.net)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 09:16:40 EDT

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    Maybe something to look for.
    
    > Jonathan's Space Report
    > No. 476                                              2002 Apr 9 Cambridge,
    MA
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    > Kosmos-2388 was launched on Apr 1 by Molniya-M from area 16, pad 2 at
    > Plesetsk (thanks to Alex Zheleznyakov for pad info). It is a US-KS (Oko)
    > elliptical orbit early warning satellite built by Lavochkin. The launch
    > was reported as successful, but GSFC had still not posted any Space
    > Command element sets by Apr 8 for the elliptical orbit (although the
    > Blok-I rocket and BOZ ullage system left in low orbit have now been
    > cataloged.) It's very unusual for this kind of satellite not to be
    > tracked immediately, and it has probably gone into a non-standard orbit.
    > The usual initial orbit for Oko satellites is about 500 x 39000 km x
    > 62.9 deg; the Blok-I is in a standard 231 x 490 km x 62.8 deg
    > low parking orbit.
    
    
    
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