[FPSPACE] TASS: Russia's Solar Sail Spacecraft Fails To Separate From Booster

[Jim Oberg]

A friend directed me to this timeline:

http://planetary.org/news/2005/cosmos1_solarsail_timeline_0616.html

 " 6 m 17 s  is the Separation of Cosmos 1 from Volna Rocket"
but it still doesn't say how long the 1st stage burn was supposed to be...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Oberg" <joberg at houston.rr.com>
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Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 6:51 AM
Subject: [FPSPACE] TASS: Russia's Solar Sail Spacecraft Fails To Separate
>From Booster


The reference to Volna 'stopping its flight' at 160 seconds puzzles me --
what was the
nominal ascent profile, when was the Volna thrusting supposed to cease,
normally?