karn (11/23/82)
Iskra 3 was deployed from the Russian Salyut 7 spacecraft on Thursday,
18 November 1982, according to TASS, the Soviet News Agency. The birth
of Iskra 3 was very similar to Iskra 2 which occurred on 17 May 1982.
Several stations have observed the complex telemetry transmissions on
29.583 mhz. Like the earlier satellite, this one will probably be
short-lived, burning up in the atmosphere in about two months.
The following is orbital data for Iskra 3:
Catalog number: 13663
Epoch time: 82322.76294085
Thu Nov 18 13:18:38 1982 EST
Inclination: 51.6338 deg
RA of node: 125.6904 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0002195
Arg of perigee: 159.7567 deg
Mean anomaly: 200.3331 deg
Mean motion: 15.72403550 rev/day
Decay rate: 0.0038881 rev/day/day
Epoch rev: 3372
Semi major axis: 6730.171 km
Period: 91.579544 min
Apogee: 355.08 km
Perigee: 352.12 km