Kosmos 36 | |
Mission Type: | ABM radar target |
Cospar Id: | 1964-042A |
Mission Duration: | 213 days |
Spacecraft Type: | DS-P1-Yu |
Manufacturer: | Yuzhnoye |
Launch Mass: | 325 kg[1] |
Launch Date: | 30 July 1964, 03:36:00 GMT |
Launch Rocket: | Kosmos-2I 63S1 |
Launch Site: | Kapustin Yar, Mayak-2 |
Launch Contractor: | Yuzhnoye |
Decay Date: | 28 February 1965 |
Orbit Epoch: | 30 July 1964 |
Orbit Reference: | Geocentric[2] |
Orbit Regime: | Low Earth |
Orbit Periapsis: | 261 km |
Orbit Apoapsis: | 477 km |
Orbit Inclination: | 49.0° |
Orbit Period: | 91.9 minutes |
Apsis: | gee |
Kosmos 36 (Russian: Космос 36 meaning Cosmos 36), also known as DS-P1-Yu #1 was a satellite which was used for use in calibrating the Dnestr space surveillance and as a radar calibration target, for tests of anti-ballistic missiles.[3] It was launched by the Soviet Union in 1964 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme. It was built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau.
Kosmos 36 was launched using a Kosmos-2I 63S1 carrier rocket,[4] which flew from Mayak-2 at Kapustin Yar. The launch occurred at 03:36 GMT on 30 July 1964.[5]
After separating from its carrier rocket, Kosmos 36 was in a low Earth orbit with a perigee of, an apogee of, 49.0° of inclination, and an orbital period of 91.9 minutes. It decayed from orbit on 28 February 1965.[6] Kosmos 36 was the first of seventy nine DS-P1-Yu satellites to be launched,[7] of which all but seven were successful. The next launch of a DS-P1-Yu satellite, the DS-P1-Yu #2 will be on 12 February 1965, failed due to a second stage malfunction.