Jun 20 1976
From The Space Library
The USSR launched Intercosmos 15 on 19 June, a Tass broadcast announced, as an example of "socialist countries' cooperation" in space research. The spacecraft orbital parameters were 521-km apogee, 487-km perigee, 74° inclination, and 94.6-min period. Intercosmos 15 was designed to "test new systems and units," including a telemetry system developed and manufactured with the participation of specialists from Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the German Democratic Republic, as well as the USSR. Satellite data would be transmitted to receiving stations in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the CDR. (FBIS, Tass in English, 20 June 76)
An official Indian government press release broadcast from Bombay said that 2 Centaur rockets and 2 M-1008 rockets would be fired from the equatorial rocket-launching station at Thumba on 28 or 29 June, and I July respectively. (FBIS, Samachar News Agency in English, 20 June 76)
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