MARS-96      ROBOTIC SPACECRAFT MISSION TO MARS. Brief description
Table of contents
Inroduction
Scientific goals
Scheme of the mission
Spacecraft
Orbiter
Payload of the Orbiter
Scientific goals of
the experiments
Description of
the instruments
Small Stations
Penetrators
Conclusion
CONCLUSION

The MARS-96 spacecraft was been launch on 16 November 1996 at 20:48:53 UTC from Baykonur.

Time schedule of the main events during the launch are following:

Events

T, s since Lift-off

Relative

V, mps

Height,

km

  • Lift-off Command

-2,8

0

0

  • Lift-off

0

0

0

  • of 1st stage engines thrust

1,6

7

0.008

  • Max velocity head

66

459.5

11.2

  • 2nd stage engine ignition

118,94

1551.3

39.4

  • 1st stage separation

123.29

1677.9

42.5

  • Payload fairing separation

185.00

2151.2

78.2

  • 3rd stage engine ignition

327.74

4349.3

119.5

  • 2nd stage separation

331.14

4417.6

120.6

  • Payload (Block-D, SC, adapter, lower casing, middle casing) separation

583.42

7202.4

144.7

  • Middle casing separation

638.42

-

-

  • 1st ignition of the Block D main engine’s launching provision system (SOZ)

643.42

7188.1

155.6

  • 1st ignition of the Block-D main engine

942.42

7175.3

166.0

  • of the Block-D main engine thrust, SOZ-burn-out

942.84

7191.9

165.9

  • Block-D main engine burn-out

1038.98

7519.9

(Vabs=7843.1)

160.1

  • Insertion into the near Earth orbit

1046.9

   
  • 2nd ignition of the SOZ engine

3833.81

7485.8

163.2

  • Payload entry into the Earth’s shadow

4032

-

-

  • 2nd ignition of the Block-D main engine

4132.81

7488.0

159.5

  • of the Block-D main engine thrust, SOZ-burn-out

4133.23

7488.1

159.5

 

During the second switch on of the Block-D the operations stipulated by the onboard program were not implemented. Block-D did not impart the requirement impulse to the spacecraft and separated from the spacecraft. Due to the MARS-96 spacecraft was not been inserted into the interplanetary trajectory to Mars and during the third revolution around the Earth insert into the Earth’s atmosphere and felt in the Pacific.



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