Magion 1

Magion 1

Type:	Research satellite
Country:	Czechoslovakia
COSPAR-ID :	1978-099C
Mission dates
Dimensions:	15 kg
Size:	30 × 30 × 16 cm
Begin:	October 24, 1978
Starting place:	Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Launcher:	cosmos
Status:	burned up on September 11, 1981
Orbit data
Rotation time :	96.4 min
Orbit inclination :	82.96 °
Apogee height :	404 km
Perigee height :	772 km
Eccentricity :	0.082

Magion 1 was the first research satellite in Czechoslovakia . It was launched on October 24, 1978 together with the Interkosmos 18 research satellite, with which it was connected until November 14. Magion had the shape of a flat cuboid , a base length of 30 cm and weighed 15 kg. He served the study of Mag neto - and Ion osphäre . The name was put together from the first letters.

The main inner belt asteroid (2696) Magion was named after the satellite.

literature

Heinz Mielke: Lexicon of space travel. 6th edition, transpress VEB publishing house for transport, Berlin, 1980

Web links

Magion in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
Magion 1 in the NSSDCA Master Catalog (English)

Individual evidence

^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 7, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1980 HB. Discovered 1980 Apr. 16 by L. Brožek at Kleť. ”

[1] Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 7, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1980 HB. Discovered 1980 Apr. 16 by L. Brožek at Kleť. ”