OGCh (8F021, 'FOBS') (original) (raw)

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OGCh [GDK]

OGCh (Orbital'noy Golovnoy Chasti) was an attempt to create an orbital warhead to circumvent the US ballistic missile early warning radars. It consisted of a conical reentry vehicle and an maneuvering stage. The manuevering unit, which oriented the spacecraft in orbit and autonomously determined when to make the braking manoeuvre to bring the re-entry vehicle down from orbit. It included an inertial navigation system and a radar altimeter which measured the altitude of the orbit and determined when to make the braking manoeuvre. The retro-rocket engine was a single chamber engine, the Yangel RD-854, with a vacuum thrust of 7.7 tons. Four nozzles on the sides of the main engine (using exhaust gases from the main engine) provided steering capability. Four additional tangentially located nozzles provided yaw capability. Each nozzle was throttleable. A solid fuel cartridge then spun up the turbine assembly of the liquid propellant (N2O4/UDMH) braking engine.

Although an orbital flight reduced the payload mass and reduced accuracy in comparison to ballistic ICBMs, it was considered an advantage to have nuclear weapons, which could attack every target from every direction. Originally to be launched by the GR-1 missile, it was redesigned for the R-36-Omissile. After several suborbital tests, the USSR flew a number in fractional orbits - i.e. orbital velocity was reached, but the vehicle was deorbited before completing an orbit. The warheads impacted at the Kapustin Yar missile range.

The system was in service at 18 silos at Baikonur from 25 August 1969 to January 1983. Under SALT-2 the system was deactivated. The OGCh missile had a 7.5 year guaranteed fuelled storage life and a five minute reaction time.

Nation: USSR
Type / Application: Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) test
Operator:
Contractors:
Equipment:
Configuration:
Propulsion: RD-854
Power: Batteries
Lifetime:
Mass: 1700 kg
Orbit: 139 km × 270 km, 49.6� (typical)
Satellite COSPAR Date LS Launch Vehicle Remarks
OGCh #1 N/A 16.12.1965 Ba LC-67/21 * R-36-O
OGCh #2 N/A 05.02.1966 Ba LC-67/21 *p R-36-O
OGCh #3 N/A 16.03.1966 Ba LC-67/21 *F% R-36-O exploded on fueling
OGCh #4 N/A 19.05.1966 Ba LC-67/22 * R-36-O
OGCh #5 (U 1) 1966-088A 17.09.1966 Ba LC-162/36 P R-36-O
OGCh #6 (U 2) 1966-101G 02.11.1966 Ba LC-162/36 P R-36-O
Kosmos 139 (OGCh #7) 1967-005A 25.01.1967 Ba LC-162/36 R-36-O
Kosmos (151) (OGCh #8) 1967-F02 22.03.1967 Ba LC-161/35 F R-36-O
Kosmos 160 (OGCh #9) 1967-047A 17.05.1967 Ba LC-161/35 R-36-O
Kosmos 169 (OGCh #10) 1967-069A 17.07.1967 Ba LC-162/36 R-36-O
Kosmos 170 (OGCh #11) 1967-074A 31.07.1967 Ba LC-161/35 R-36-O
Kosmos 171 (OGCh #12) 1967-077A 08.08.1967 Ba LC-162/36 R-36-O
Kosmos 178 (OGCh #13) 1967-089A 19.09.1967 Ba LC-161/35 R-36-O
Kosmos 179 (OGCh #14) 1967-091A 22.09.1967 Ba LC-162/36 R-36-O
Kosmos 183 (OGCh #15) 1967-099A 18.10.1967 Ba LC-161/35 R-36-O
Kosmos 187 (OGCh #16) 1967-106A 28.10.1967 Ba LC-162/36 R-36-O
Kosmos 218 (OGCh #17) 1968-037A 25.04.1968 Ba LC-162/36 R-36-O
OGCh #18 N/A 20.05.1968 Ba LC-162/36 * R-36-O
OGCh #19 N/A 27.05.1968 Ba LC-161/35 * R-36-O
Kosmos 244 (OGCh #20) 1968-082A 02.10.1968 Ba LC-161/35 R-36-O
Kosmos 298 (OGCh #21) 1969-077A 15.09.1969 Ba LC-191/66 R-36-O
Kosmos 354 (OGCh #22) 1970-056A 28.07.1970 Ba LC-191/66 R-36-O
Kosmos 365 (OGCh #23) 1970-076A 25.09.1970 Ba LC-191/66 R-36-O
Kosmos 433 (OGCh #24) 1971-068A 08.08.1971 Ba LC-191/66 R-36-O

* = suborbital

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