Kosmos 382

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Kosmos 382
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Soyuz 7K-L1E
Mission typeOrbital test flight
OperatorSoviet space program
COSPAR ID 1970-103A OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
SATCAT no. 4786
Mission duration54 years, 6 months, 27 days (in orbit)
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type Soyuz 7K-L1E
Start of mission
Launch dateDecember 2, 1970, 17:00 UTC
Rocket Proton-K/D
Launch site Baikonur 81/23
End of mission
DisposalDecommissioned
Last contactDecember 7, 1970
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric orbit
Regime Low Earth Orbit
Perigee altitude 2,577 km (1,601 mi)
Apogee altitude 5,082 km (3,158 mi)
Inclination 55.87°
  Zond 8

Kosmos 382 was a Soviet Soyuz 7K-L1E modification of a Soyuz 7K-L1 "Zond" spacecraft and was successfully test launched into Low Earth Orbit on a Proton rocket designated as (Soyuz 7K-L1E No.2) on December 2, 1970.

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The main purpose of the mission was to test the N1/L3 spacecraft's Block D lunar orbit insertion/descent stage by simulating the lunar orbit insertion burn, the lunar orbit circularization burn and the final lunar descent burn. Over the course of five days, the Block D stage was ignited three times to raise the initial ~190 km × ~300 km × 51.6° orbit to a final 2577 km × 5082 km × 55.87° orbit. The Block D stage was fitted with cameras in the tanks to monitor the fuel and oxidizer behaviour in weightlessness and during acceleration. [1] Kosmos-382 also carried other experiments, including a prototype environmental control subsystem named "Rosa" for producing potable water from atmospheric condensate exhaled by cosmonauts onboard Soviet crewed spacecraft. This system was later used on the Salyut space stations in the 1970s and 1980s. [2]

The following maneuvers were performed:

See also

References

  1. "Zond (L1E)". space.skyrocket.de.
  2. "Публикации сотрудников АО "НИИхиммаш"" [Life Support Regeneration Systems for Long Space Flights (Publications by employees of JSC NIIhimmash)]. www.niichimmash.ru. Archived from the original on 2021-02-25. Retrieved 2019-05-30.