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Zhanibekov, flight commander; (BAI) 302 km 51.6° O. Makarov, flight engineer. Docked with Salyut-6 on 3-part spacecraft: 2 spherical 11 January. Crew transferrred for a 5-day stay aboard habitable modules (orbital Salyut with the crew of Soyuz-26 before returning to compartment and command Earth in Soyuz-26 which landed 310 km west of Tselino- module) connected in tandem to a grad (Kazakhstan). cylindrical service module; diameter: 2.70 m; height: 7.10 m; Soyuz-27 returned to Earth on 16 March 1978 mass: 6680 kg; 2 solar arrays Cosmos-975 1978-4-A USSR 10 Jan. 637 km 97.6 min Electronic monitoring satellite (PLE) 680 km 81.2° Cosmos-976 1978-5-A USSR 10 Jan. 1452 km 115.3 min Government communications satellites (PLE) 1520 km 74.0° to to Cosmos-983 1978-5-H mass:40 kg each Cosmos-984 1978-6-A USSR 13 Jan. 215 km 89.5 min 19.995 MHz Reconnaissance satellite (PLE) 313 km 62.8° Cosmos-985 1978-7-A USSR 17 Jan. 960 km 105.0 min Navigation satellite (PLE) 1032 km 83.0° Progress-1 1978-8-A USSR 20 Jan. 184 km 88.8 min Expendable supply craft capable of transporting 2.3 262 km 51.6° tonnes—1 tonne of propergols and 1.3 tonnes of “ dry ” modification of Soyuz spacecraft freight. Docked with Salyut-6 on 22 January to transfer without descent and landing fresh supplies of fuel and equipment. The two spacecraft system; mass at launch: 7 tonnes separated again on 6 February 1 TELEC O M M U N IC ATIO N JO U R N A L - VOL. 46 - VI1979 C ountry Code name International Organization Perigee Period Frequencies Date Observations Spacecraft description num ber Site o f Apogee Inclination Transmitter power launching 9th Molnya-3 1978-9-A USSR 24 Jan. 661 km 736 min 1 cm band Carries apparatus for transmitting television programs (PLE) 40 631 km 62.8° and multichannel radiocommunications mass: 1500 kg Cosmos-986 1978-10-A USSR 24 Jan. 179 km 89.4 min Reconnaissance satellite (BAI) 341 km 65.0° China-8 1978-11-A China 26 Jan. 162 km 90.5 min Reconnaissance satellite. 437 km 57.2° Recovered on 7 February 1978 IU E-1 1978-12-A International 26 Jan. in geosynch •onous o rb it 136.860 MHz International Ultraviolet Explorer NASA/ESA/ at 71° W 6 W octagonal structure with tele­ SRC (tracking and telem etry) scope protruding from to p; (ERT) diameter; 1.30 m; height: 4.30 m; 2249.800 MHz mass at launch: 671 kg; 6 W 2 solar arrays (telemetry only) Cosmos-987 1978-13-A USSR 31 Jan. 183 km 89.6 min Photographic reconnaissance satellite 359 km 62.8° EXOS-1 (Kyokko) 1978-14-A Japan 4 Feb. 642 km 134 min 136.725; 400.45 MHz ObJectives: to study auroras by means of an ultraviolet ISAS 3977 km 65.4° 0.1 W television camera. The satellite is part of the Japanese cylindrical satellite; diameter: (KSC) contribution to the International Magnetospheric Study 0.946 m; height: 0.80 m; gross mass: 130 kg Cosmos-988 1978-15-A USSR 8 Feb.
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