Feb 19 1966
From The Space Library
U.S.S.R. launched COSMOS CIX with “scientific instruments to continue the study of outer space.” Orbital parameters: apogee, 309 km. (192 mi.); perigee, 209 km. (130 mi.); period, 89.5 min.; inclination, 65°. Instrumentation was functioning normally. ‘‘(Tass, 2/ 19/66)’’
Television system on U.S.S.R.’s LUNA IX, which transmitted first pictures from moon Feb. 3-6, weighed less than 1.5 kgs. (3.3 lbs.), disclosed the Soviet designers of this equipment in an Izvestia interview. Since the TV camera had to “distinguish minute details of the surface and transmit to earth simultaneously the landscape around the spot where it landed,” a miniature Vega photocamera with lens that could “photograph at distances from two meters to infinity without focusing” had been used. First “radio communication session with the moon” began within 4 min. 10 sec. after the soft-landing and first television reportage that can be used for alternate missions in the period 1968 to 1970.”. began within seven hours. Complete panoramic scanning took 100 min. Future probes of moon’s surface would use camera coupled with microscope for minute study of the lurain. ‘‘(Izvestia, 2/19/66, 1)’’
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