Taifun-3
Spacecraft · Russia
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Credit: KB Yuzhnoye
Russian military target satellite. Specifications for a third generation Taifun-3 system were developed in 1980 with flight trials to have started in 1984.
In the event flights seem not to have started until 1988. This target system was designed for exercise and calibration of space control sensors. The satellite was launched by the Tsyklon 3 launch vehicle and released 36 Romb subsatellites.
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Related
- Family
- Military, Military target sat, Surveillance
- Country
- Russia
- Launch Sites
- Plesetsk, Plesetsk LC32/2, Plesetsk LC32
- Agency
- MO, Reshetnev bureau
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Duga-K
Credit: KB Yuzhnoye
Duga-K
Credit: Yuzhnoye
Cosmos 2059
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Chronology
2 events
1988 December 23
07:20 GMT - . Launch Site: Plesetsk. Launch Complex: Plesetsk LC32. Launch Pad: LC32/1. LV Family: R-36. Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon-3.- Cosmos 1985 - . Mass: 3,000 kg (6,600 lb). Nation: Russia. Agency: MO. Class: Surveillance. Type: Radar calibration target. Spacecraft: Taifun-3. Decay Date: 1992-05-04 . USAF Sat Cat: 19720 . COSPAR: 1988-113A. Apogee: 220 km (130 mi). Perigee: 206 km (128 mi). Inclination: 73.50 deg. Period: 88.80 min. Radar calibration mission. Believed to be a modernised version of the Taifun-1 satellite. Released 36 Romb radar calibration subsatellites..
1989 December 27
00:00 GMT - . Launch Site: Plesetsk. Launch Complex: Plesetsk LC32/2. LV Family: R-36. Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon-3.- Cosmos 2053 - .
Mass: 3,000 kg (6,600 lb). Nation: Russia.
Agency: MO.
Class: Surveillance.
Type: Radar calibration target. Spacecraft: Taifun-3.
Decay Date: 1997-09-02 . USAF Sat Cat: 20389 . COSPAR: 1989-100A. Apogee: 410 km (250 mi). Perigee: 405 km (251 mi). Inclination: 73.50 deg. Period: 92.70 min.
Believed to be a modernised version of the Taifun-1 satellite, built by NPO Yuzhnoe. The satellite carried 36 small Calibration Spherical Object subsatellites to test Russian radars. These were released between December 27, 1989 and November 1, 1991. While Cosmos 2053 re-entered in 1997, by May 1999 the S5M upper stage was still in a 471 km x 485 km x 73.5 deg orbit. An on-board explosion blew it into 25 new objects.